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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 17 May 1894, Page 2

Ought Mrs, Yates to have the sympathy and support of the whole colony, in her trying position as Mayor of Onehunga, and is that Borough a dirty little place which ought to bo treated with scorn and contempt ? The A'eto Zealand Times says so, but we do not quite agree with our contemporary. If a woman choosos to "wear inexpressibles," and this seems to us to.be Mrs, Yates' public position, she can hardly claim the privileges usually accorded to her sex, The little rumpus at Onehunga is brought about by Mrs. Yates' own efforts to put her sex in a novel position. If she can, in spite of vows, hold her own and do good work in the Borough, her mission is a success; but if she finds that public opinion is against her, and that she is iu advance of the" up to date" ideas of the community, she had better give way and retire into private life. If she can secure re-election next November, she had better hold' on; but if the feeling of the burgesses is against her, and recent manifestations tend to show this, the sooner she resigns the" official inexpressibles " the better. So far she

lins amused niul interested the colony, but she has certainly not impressed it by her capacity and tact. Most men rule in this colony in a spirit of conciliation, Mrs. Yates, with all her sharpness, lias not found out this yet, and she is likely to make a horrible example of her sex by her well-meant effort to govern ah" Dick" Seddon. A woman ought to be able to manage men; everybody knows women who thoroughly understand this art, but poor Mrs. Yates seems to be deficient in this respect, and people begin to feel sorry for her,