THOSE WICKED TORIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3092, 10 May 1892, Page 2

THOSE WICKED TORIES.

TO THE EDITOR. Slit.—The country is in danger! That famous French phraso hits the mark a century later. It has been reserved for the lowly ratepayers of the Newcastle Riding to didsnvpr this fact, through the energy of one of their body. Guy Fawkes, patriot and sufferer as some hive it, was to have blown a sovereign and his advisers into space with gun powder. Our G. F,, our ratepayer, has explo.led his lioinb. "No delay about it," thinks he, " even though it be of paper, stu If Ml with wind." Let Mr Eivingt >n beware ! Sir William Fox'a soda-water never made him feel so completely blown up as with the remarks made by the chairman of the Newcastle Highway Eoard, and Guy Fawkes' " redivivus " about those wicked Tories at the lust meeting of our ratepayers on the 2nd inst. Apparently, these remarks are to be taken seriously ; they appear to have a personal direction, not without malice. In any case, however, surely a ratepayers'meeting is not the place for political amenities. Whig and Tory, Ridical and Conservative should mind the business for which they meet. If I were to mention a sth November and a bon fire in connection with our Guy and his nonsense, I should be suspected of "a damnable and hellish plot"; nay, worse than the one laid bare, which Heaven forbid !—Yours truly, An Ignorant Ratepayer, N. H. District. Whatawhata, May !!th, 1892. P.S.—When F****a meets Fux, then comes the tug of war. Can Sir William be in our " ignorant " midst in disguise ?