SET A BEGGAR ON HORSEBANK ETC.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 4

SET A BEGGAR ON HORSEBANK ETC.

The Wellington ' Press ' writes : — • Tt is a favourite device of the " Liberals " to rail at the magnificence of so-called Tories, and to accuse them of dreading to come into contact with the common ruck of mortals lest they should be defiled. Experience, however, proves that a " Liberal " Minister is usually far more extravagant, and far more punctilious, than a Conservative Minister. For example, two members of the present ultra- " Liberal" Government recently journeyed on separate occasions on the Wellington-New Plymouth Railway. Now, these magnates were not content with travelling in the same carriages as the general public. Each of them had a special carriage, which he occupied in solitary grandeur. One of them— a gentleman who is mever tired of denouncing the aristocracy and landocracy, and raving about the wrongs of the poor tax-payers — was not satisfied with the position of the state carriage which had been allotted to him, so he delayed the train for fully ten minutes whilst the carriage was being moved to a position suitable to his fastidious taste. The delay was very irksome to the crowd of passengers who were kept waiting that

his Liberal Mightiness might be made comfortable ; but what did he care about the convenience of others ? As a friend of ours from the country remarked the other day, " I have travelled in an ordinary carriage with that bloated aristocrat Captain Russell, when ho was a Minister, but I could never dare to aspire to sit in the same carriage with a ' Liberal' Minister. No common mortal must come between the wind and his nobility.""