Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4450, 21 June 1893, Page 3

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1893.

i ffEquite accept theexplanation given 1 by Mr A. W. Hogg in our last issun, | with referenod to bis connection with ; the Master.ton-Mangab.aoSpecial Set- ; tlement, but we feel disposed to put on < sackcloth and ashes when we consider the injustice we hare done him as the friend of the squatter. The view we took, was that Mr Hogg would never have become: Member of Masterton but for the votes and interest of certain land-gralibers(we use his own expression), We did notquitesee bow th( support onme to him on any.obviom public ground, and were Jed into thi error of supposing that be had under taken to grind certain axes for bii landgrabbing friends. That these axe. were subsequently ground is, of course a matter of history, - and that certaii private quarrels between landgrabber became, through the strenuous eset tipnßoftheM«mber(orMasierton,SW qnestiojiß, calling for Ministerial in terference, is undeniable, Our exous is that once upon,a time our presan representative was won't'/to kee' a kind of, political reslau'ran where workiog-men only were won to assemble with the avowed intentioi of hunting, trapping, and- extermin' ating the land-grabber ,wit : h:hiavaji and assistance. Eventbe Innd-grabbe who paid the highest wages, wh supplied ;the best food and- lodging who gave shelter and food to : eyerj swagger, asking for it,'was denounce' as the natural enemy of Mr Hogg an< his merry men of the restaurant. W did not altogether realize" the chang that hascome about in the old barrackf There is now a new wing for land graiblJerl where tlieir epßoial rtequire

•m.en.ta#ffljbe.:BlaHiedi»ndaheipoMirß' eiouied prowipii- 1 ttfde. ■; i^fliOT^B : '. also;' another ii/idg ,'• quite Tern'peraride friend? ;will find special provision' triaile for. theif conifdrL9. Mr Hogg's political restaurant of |o-dnj is quite a new establishment and gives us an entirely novel view of its enterprising and" versatile proprietor. If more were required tocorivinceus of ourerror, we have -it, in; the. certifioite : of charaocer: given yesterday to the Fquattera- foe,: by a"-. land-grabber who last year paid rates on over five • thousand acres. ' Probably further;- : testimonials from .lead fag Temperance advocates, showing that 88 an nbat«iner and a prohibitionist Mr Hogg is immaculate; iill follow in due oohrse Then on 'the top of all this oouies : Mr, Hogg's own boast that he, now represents" all classes in the community; Even Mr George Beetharanev-r went beyond thiß point. It is perhaps pardonable for us to be astonisbed to see a local land-grabber go, as a. Masterton Diogenes, in search of an honest man and at lust to flash his lantern: on'to the beaming conntenanoe : pf the Member for Miistcrtonandcry ''Hero he is I" Strange too it is, to Grid Mr Hogg, trotting Diogenesi the landgrabber, on to the" public platform and exclaiming " I havo found my long lost brother", or proclaiming in the words of the Greek: monarch, "lfl were not Alexander I would be Diogenes." We recognise that it is our duty to admire rather than to criticise both Diogenes and Alexander.' At least we realise that there are land-grabbers of the right colour and land-grabbers of the wrong , colour, and that it is the duty of the member for Masterton to fight for the former.