SHOT THE SECOND.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 382, 26 November 1889, Page 2

SHOT THE SECOND.

To-morrow evening Mr A. C. Arthur will find time to address a Gisborne audience. There is not, we believe, such a great rush of business in Gisborne as to prevent a large number of people finding time to listen to Mr Arthur, and the spirit of fair play which exists will, we feel certain, ensure a patient hearing of anything that Mr Arthur has to say. What the tenor of his address will be there is as yet not the slightest indication. The printed address has already been adversely criticised by us, and the justice of that criticism even his supporters have been compelled to acknowledge. At the time we advised that the address should be withdrawn from print, but so far that has not been done, though we notice that our contemporary has thought it advisable to hide the advertisement in a corner of its back page. For Mr Arthur’s sake we are sorry that our advice has been unheeded, and we hope we are wrong in believing such to be a proof that he is lacking in tact, a want which caused Mr Graham to make such a lamentable example of himself. Mr Arthur has long been a settler in the district, and his candidature for the vacancy in the representation of the East Coast has long been announced, but we must confess that w? are totally ignorant of what his views are on political questions, excepting that he has jn a way that is tantalisingly equivocal, but yet sufficiently plain to most people, declared himself an opponent of our present education system. As, therefore, except on the one point, the electors must ba jn utter darkness as to Mr Arthur’s views, a great number will no doubt, if it is only out of curiosity, try and spare an hour or so to go and hear what he has to say. As that gentleman’s time is so valuable some of the electors may think it would not be well to put themselves under such a great obligation to him as to allow him, for their sakes, to incur the loss of time that mustjesplt from his driving into town and addressing a meeting, but as it is intended to have a meeting in any case it will take no more time to address five hundred hearers than to address twenty, and it would be a pity if the opportunity were not taken advantage of, We also advise our many country friends to try and attend, for after seventeen years'sllence Mr Arthur ought to have something good to tell us, and as he ’ himself places such a high value upon his time he is not likely to detain the electors one moment longer than will be required to tell us tbgt something good.