iWb have received from one Mr Albert Potter, who gives 'his address as Moon' Eden.'a' pamph,fo|'on State] Bunks and State rjanlt N.Qtes. f|o the ijtuthor js we know not. .'.' Potter, of Mount Eden," may be as reputable as •' Poster, of and he ia certainly more amusing. He tries to show that Government Greenbacks and ijtate Sbinplnsters are, or ought to be, as good as gold. He is evidently one of those kind of men who believe that pieces of paper would be better than gold if only his own portrait were stamped on one corner of lihem and that of Sir George Groy or fliir' PFS p% Dick oh the other. There seeais }q lie sonjeiliing in the Auckland atmospherp'V/Bfoli ejimu-, lates the imagination j at any r'aje there is a bee of eome kind in every liberal bonnet up that way, beginning with Sir George Grey and ending with Potior, of Mount Eden. Whether Potter has thought his subject out or j is capable of thinking it out, we know! not; all tjh&t ,ve flan tell is that ha grayely attempts w prove nj) absurdity. There is probably' not' a liberal patriot up Auckland way who ia not; gr.e[ped' to prove ,that\two and two; jna|eß fivt', Jb&t ah irrcderfliable paper jo.uw?y tW .worid n/j't pay o.ur d§Us in England wpujql be a BD,u>'c ; o of unfoli mtyh. JPhere.is tip statute of limitations in preyppt Po.tfcer of Mount Eden, or any ptiief pnplit cither in durance yileor at large from worrying the press of the colony with pamphlets: we wish there were 1
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4639, 5 February 1894, Page 2
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