JAUNDICED JELLICOE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 495, 22 September 1905, Page 2

JAUNDICED JELLICOE.

Things are coming to a pretty pass, and it ia evident that the big gooseberry season is imminent, when the world's press and the cablenian begin to concern themselves with that erratic and irrelevant person, E. G. Jelhcoe. With the object of making himself famous, Jellicoe has been cabling home his peculiar notions about Australian affairs. As: everybody who knows the individual is fully aware he has had no opportunity of recent yearg of studying Australian affairs on the spot, and even if he had it would be impossible to accept his views about them with the slightest seriousness. Jeilicoehas never up to the present put himself in the way of being taken seriously except by agitated witnesses with quaking consciences who have been taken aback by his Old Bailey bluster. When he from time to time placed his unique services at the disposal of the Wellington City electors they were rejected with considerable enthusiasm, with the consequence that he was never able to figure in the political limelight; and there is no guarantee that his theatrical wooing of an English constitu ency will be crowned with greater success. Yet because this mediocrity happens to have gall and assurance, and gilt enough to distribute his precious " viewa " through the press agencies, and some ill-informed scribe at the other end has the ignorance to tako him seriously we are redeluged with his statements and the refutations of an AgentGeneral whose statistical qualifications are unexceptionable, but whose sense of humour is in such sad disrepair, that "he warmly protests that the plague of ill-informed criticism is doing incalculable harm to Imperialism."