MR SHEEHAN ON THE WAR PATH.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 54, 23 December 1882, Page 3

MR SHEEHAN ON THE WAR PATH.

♦ Mr John Sheehan has been getting very roughly handled by the Press of the colony for his indiscreet "attack in reply" to an attack on an "ex-minister" of the colony made by a Mr A. Mills, an English gentleman, who was exercising the proverbial privilege of travellers, and narrating to an open-mouthed audience in Derby, his experiences in the colony of New Zealand. Mr Mills had already been sufficiently replied to by Mr Gisborne, who wrote to the Derbyshire Advertiser a dignified protest against the general tone of tho speech. The whola affair had quietly been shelved, when we learned by our telegrams that the Bishop «rf il 'W'aia*|*m lincl ret tbe brill -rolling ogt»it» by stating through the columns of the Hawkcs Bay Herald that " Mr Sheehan had a mistaken recollection of what occurred." No doubt Mr Sheehan will ai.-ain avail himself of the opportunity offered for him to pen an effusion somewhat similar to the former, but this time the Bishop will be the object of his wrath, and we cannot say that a reproof will be entirely unmerited, as the Bishop has certainly gone out of his way to join in a quarrel that could not possibly concern him.