Worthington in Hobart.

Hastings Standard, Issue 25, 26 May 1896, Page 4

Worthington in Hobart.

Under this heading the Hobart Clipper further comments (under date May 9) upon the case of Authur Bently Worthington. It publisher the manifesto formulated by a number of exstutlents in Christchurch, and sent to it by Mr H. Bennetts, the chairman cf the meeting ; also, extracts from the Christchurch Star's editorial comments. The Clipper writes as follows : Tasmania is a very happy hunting ground for adventurers of all sorts, providing that they dress well. In the summer they arrive in droves as " visitors " or " tourists,"' and our hash houses and hotels take them in and feed them on fatted calves, and they make payment by taking all '-in,** including the provider, and occasionallv the most marriageable daughter or servant girl attached to the premises. Sometimes they come as Lord Leamington-. As mining expeiis or my u rioiH men with foreign capital to invest they are thrice welcome. and all the resources of the colony, including railway passes, are at their disposal, and cabinet ministers bow down to them and worship, and straightaway dream of a financial surplus. But contrast these welcomes with that which we accord the pior-i adventurer who comes to teach or revive gosple t-r-o-u-t-h-s. The <.f our j >y is as the Launceston 11< i *i-t light, backed up with all the sparks Hying the axes around n c infection therewith, to the smoky liaio round the light of a tallow dip or a Hobart street lamp. We specially dote upon the man of the saintly whine, smug dress and hypocritical snivel, and we sup up as nectar from the gods his oracular egotism. We are worked up to an enthussa-m never otherwise known in Hobart by maudlin truism*, faked with platitudes and plagiariams, garbed as religion. Knowing the weakness of the citizens of Hobart to be erotic induced the Clipper to unfold a tale about the latest addition to the li On the Have Brigade." Towards Arthur Rent ley Worthington we bear no malice, in fact we secretly admire him as being possessed of more concrete cheek than could be possibly boiled down out of Sir Phillip Fv-h. Sir Edward Braddon!} Henry Pobson, Honest -Tohn Henry, the Anchor mine promoters, and Professor Hackett. More egotism than the combined editorial " We " of the Mercury, Mail, Launceston Examiner, and—A. J. Taylor. And more philosophy than is even required to run a straight Democratic newspaper in Tasmania. Exposure of fraud and heartlessness has, however, failed to kee the " craze " votaries hack, and in a small but increasing circle Worthington is being lionised, and they are making life comfortable for him so far as £ 1 "0 per annum will go. This arch-priest has clothed himself as a martyr, and as such is gulling the gullible. So let it be!