Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4295, 15 December 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1892.

Being ihb extended title of the WiIRAHAPA DaUY, WITH WHICH IT 18 IuEOTIOAL

second Edition

The list of the new Justices of the Peace is out at last, As far as this district is concerned the names were divulged some time ago, and we have had time to rally from the feeling of, shall we say surprise, that some nominations evoked, Of the local solections that of Mr Eton is probably the best, but if we had to pick the worßt we should Beek very low down the scalo of humanity, and almost reach tho missing link, Taking the 66lootiona throughout l New Zealand as a whole, we are almost reminded of Sir John FalStnfTe piok.

A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me 1 had unloaded all tho gibbets, and pressed the dead bodies, No eye bath seen such scareorows, I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat! nay, and the villains march wide betwixt tho logs, as if tboy had gyves on; for, indeed, I had the most of them out of prison. There's but a shirt and a half m all my company; and a half shirt is two napkins, taoked together and thrown over the shoulders likoa herald's ooat without sleoveß,

We aeked a friend who knows everybody, and who can tell" who's who" about soino of the new men, " who is this man 1" we uaid. "The dirtiest beggar in the Colony I" he replied, "But "we pointed out, "a man may bo dirty but yet qualified to exercise judicial functions, Did not Diogenes, the'great Cymo, live in a tub and disdain the amenities of civilised existence 1" "Yes," rejoined our mentor," but this man could have given Diogenes points and beaten him easily, Diogenes may have washed iu bis tub, once a year or bo, but this man has neve,r been known to cleanse himself through alorjg series of years. 1 ! We then inquired of another man and the auswer was, " the biggest liar in the Colony,'.' Wo argued that as. all men are, ; on pretty good authority, to be deem>d liars, there.was- no disqualification here; but our friend maintained that this particular liar stood apart from his fellow men, and waj uprivsUed an 1 uoicjue as a til? truth,

Wo ventured to ask after a third man, who waa j also on the new J.P. list, and were promptly told that he was the biggest fool in the place, where be lived." Now, .can-we say that even this defect in a drawback, for if we go again to'our Shakespeare joannot we mutch him with one Mr Jußtice.Bhallow. Still the latter was I "a fool of qunlity '* wheieas the man of Mr Balance's choice is a fool of quantity. However, there will be some queer things heard and done when he sits on the bench.

On the .whole we feel rather sorry for Ministers. Some of the men they put on thebench last time are turning out rather badly. Oue, it is rumoured, after an experience which we do not to record, is reported to be doing the" Pacific Slope." There will be a lot of trouble arising out of many of tho appointments which has been made and (lib Ministerial chickens will oome home to roost, :

Once upon a time in the good old Wairarapa days a customer went hunting for tho landlady of a well known roadside publio house. He found her at last in a secluded cellar engaged in pouring a bucket of *ater into a barrel of beer. " Martha," ho exclaimed in dismay," don't go lowering that beer, it is weak enough already." In this new batch of Justices the Government havo wilfully, knowingly,' and deliberately lowered the judicial beer of this realm, and heaven knows it was weak euough and nasty enough already, Our Courts of justice are, we fear, being prostituted and debauched by unscrupulous politicians. There will be a day of reckoning for sins of this kind.