THE NEW PARTY A CREATION OF THE "DAILY TIMES."

Evening Star, Issue 2943, 25 July 1872, Page 4

THE NEW PARTY A CREATION OF THE "DAILY TIMES."

(From (he Lyttelton Times.)

So there is no “new party” after all ! The great Lltra-Provineial Company, with very limited liability— to the taxpayers—and unlimited assurance, has not been fonncd, and those of our contemporaries who fui the last three months or so have been heralding its advent in the political world now deny tnat there was ever any intention of getting up such a company to oppose the Government. “ There never was no sich thing ” is now the burden of their song, the vv c.liugtoii correspondent of the Oloyo Faili / Tinas, and even that bulwark of the Opposition itself, arc denounced in good set terms. V\ e ;u - o told, for instance that the former has been “bought” by the Government in order to raise a hue and cry against Messrs Fitzherbert and Bunny and that the latter has been sold by one who “ professes not keeping of oalhs ” and who will “ sell the fee simple of his salvation’’for a mouthful of bread. Further this correspondent, who, we have reason to believe, is the person that formerly received such lavish praise from the same quarter, is called “a political eaves-drop-per, an “ineonigiblc gossip,” a man “endowed with an overflowiiu- share of inordinate vanity.” All this is"very refreshing and it is quits possible that some persons may be inclined to impure whether it should not be cited as a striking instance of the usual preliminary to honest men getting their own, or their due. vei y. that first of all announced the formation of a new party under the leadership of Mr Fitzherbert now tells us that it is ‘ a mere maggot, hatched in the decaying biain of a discarded toady of the Btafiord parry, who has now abandoned his whilom patrons and become a tool in the hands ot a Ministry by the chief of which he was one j characterised as ‘ a double-dyed scoundrel. '' If, continues the same authority, the correspondent alluded to were as well known elsewhere as he is in Wellington, there would be little need of noticing his attacks on the gentlemen whom he traduces; Lhese attacks are personal, and of a low type of personality. We had thought of comparing him lo Judas Iscariot, but on second thoughts we have come to the conclusion that to do so would be to libel that kissing apostate. ” This pretty specimen of journalism confirms the opinion we expressed a few days ago that the Uiaqo Dally Times' c respondent had told a talc which was ower true” to be palatable to the Wellington Provincial authorities. That, at any rate, is the impression which will be conveyed by such a combination of sound and fury ; and if Messrs Pitzherbert and Bunny have been misrepresented—as we are quite willing to believe lias been the case - they hrve only their so-called friends to blame. It was they who announced the formation of the new party; they who described—in somewhat vague terms, we admit—its political creed, and they who were kind enough to say that M essrs Ormond and M‘Leau were believed to regard it favorably ; or, to put it plainly, that these gentlemen were strongly inclined to “ rat,” and so break up the Government. So far as Mr Fitzherbert is concerned, it is satisfactory to lind that he never had any intention of forming a party upon the principles that have been indicated from time to time—Provincial administration of public works and immigration, and the consequent rehabilitation of Provincial institutions. The Wellington evening paper, which assumes to be, if it is not, tUe mouthpiece of his Honor, says it has good reason to know that no new party has been formed upon these or any other principles, and that Mr Fitzherbert has not, since last session, either offered or aspired to take upon himself the leadership of any party whatsoever. No matter what, says this authority, “ may he heard or cackled by political goslings, icings are in that respect precisely in statu quo ante." It follows, then, that the statements made by tlifc same party (the Daily Times) were baseless fabrications.”