THE STANDARD TELEPHONE

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 536, 25 November 1890, Page 2

THE STANDARD TELEPHONE

Ting— a— lino 1 x Ring up Intelligent Eid-tir 1 t No reponse.] Surely te goodness you are not putting the wires on to the whitewashed committee-room ? Try somewhere else 1 ——■ Ah I found one, have you ? There s any amount of ’em, but there are certain places in which you must not look for tbvm. At your service, sir; but I hope you are not going to poke fun at me, too. ' No, my good fellow, no; I deal sensio'y when talking to sensible men. When I m talking to racing men I'm afraid I get a bit loose in my conversation ; if I didn’t Russell and those kind of fellows would sneer at ma and call me goody-goody. Well, when I read what the Captain laid about goody-goody people, and of those racy men like Mr Arthur who go to Opotiki, put on caddish airs, and decry poor, grand old Sir George Gray, I believe a joke struck me, What n as it ? That the Captain and Mr A. may be very good judges of horses, but the G.O.M. is a ioUy good judge of asses. Ha Iha 1 hall Ho Iholho 11 Up top old fellowl But don’t try any more of those jokes. Why ? . . -kt Too much truth to be appreciated. Now then to business. Don't you think Kelly is a plucky fellow ? Only hie near friends know what a determined spirit the man must have—only his close friends know that he has been addressing public meetings when by doctor’s orders, he ought to have been m bed. I thought it was only a tonch of cold. Bo it was at first, but when a oold lays a proper hold over a fine big man like that, you may be sure he is much more affected than a sickly man would be. But once he starts he sticks to his work like a brick, and I don’t wonder at his always bsing returned to the House. As you say, he is a worker, and not a talker. That is so, but if he oan only get back to Gisborne I’ll lay any odds he will soon put the sail-trimmers and rail-sitters to rout. There is no humbug about him; he tells you straight what he means, I do not wonder at people thrusting atidfl local feeling, and voting for suoh a man—th# worse they paint tha Opposition, tha Btoro they argue in favor of Mr Kelly. And they are so dense themselves they oan't see it—just explain, and I'll communicate to them.

Nobody bnt a fool would nowaday* W*that good party Government is not the bast system yet devised. They blow that tho Atkinson Government will remain in power. Assume it will be so; then for the country 1 # good wo must have a decent Oppotitlon, and we'll get that by keeping snob men as Mr Kelly in the House, The Government party is now claimed to be perfection; then the East Coast will do a great public eervic* by raising tho status of the Opposition, That is what I call a truly patriotic feeling, and it ie patriotism Iwe want in these Says. I would like to have another chat with you, but I must now have a few wordg with— Mr George Scott, Tho Willows 1 At your pleasure. Sir. You renumber that meeting at Ormond before last election, when Mr Arthur was - asked about tl;s special harbor district? Yes, perfectly; he was asked whether, it elected, ba would try and get tin injustice removed. Precisely, and replied in a shuffling way. tn the effect that he would do nothing Of th# kind ' While Mr Rees very distinctly intimaM what he would do in the matter. Yes ; Mr Rees was not pandering tor th# Coast vote—it he had stooped te that he would have been elected. They naturally, after getting th# burden put upon us, would not want to again take their share, Ah, and Mr Arthur had also a Utile point; it saves his pooket. You Ifintcd that at the time, I think, I think I did more than hint it, but ther# is a new point I want to impress upon you now. Our sailtrimming, railsitting friend has now turned round and begun indignantly denouncing the arrangement. I was rather surprised to learn that. But when he was cornered upon the point by Mr Joyce, who was one too many for him, he said he could not vote for an alteration now because he had pledged himsel! hot to attempt any such thing-rthat is the way h# has bartered off the special district to please Whitmore and Co, It seems a great pity, but I suppose we must now abide by it—we cannot ask a man to go back on his pledge Nor will we—he will be able to abide by it if the electors aot sensibly, but ths district will be relieved from it. How do you mean 1 Why, they’ll put in Kelly, who is not bound afeer this fashion. Certainly, it gives and alternative jn that respect. Ta 1 tel—l’m off to the Bellringers to CM which of the twisting Faust brothers I think Mr A. oan be moat fairly compared to,