The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1879.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 935, 16 April 1879, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1879.

It w.outd appear that hyp->cntio»t news-papi3*9-iw» as ebtivious «-f their t>«*e.t(.wj: sitv a» a-re ncdinftvy mortal* addicted tf rt-cksnithatiUuv. The latest -iccasi-ut t'-r cfudr virtu-ni* indiifrwitifW is the eswittnu' tittfo episocfo tflafi En* j'tt.st neaurred W--6wb»w Kun-fcuw menvf'Ptu of two- political factions t and,, whilst tin? twi-jority of : peopfe- "■ men of silt " that they are - Mt> chucfeUng heartily fvev the fun ttiaf. few aei*en out yf a hhnvler e->m-initted hy one of our rttt-ruermt* telegraph iticomputent.*,. and tfttw- inipcovitv,; their appetite ftftd txisatth,. joimwiisCic t.r prude* ace utetmu* betV-ee alt men the prayer" 1 thank Thee that i atu n-'t as other nwft »«!."' Siiwatv, it ts said, so mitime* rebufo* sin. and the T>uneittn Stomtnif lievaM Ite followed, his Lwds-lde »«arapfo by eaitin.v the LyttoU-uv Tnues to-tiwifc for having done that v.-.hieti.. to its OTKstained mind, is en-v ( -h t» warrant the consignment of its fellow jo,- lF nat to per- | dition,- without allowinu* it to uttef ,aj WH-cli or defence VVhat. has calle-l ffrth j frniunur Dnrtt'ditv cotit.-tuporary und its i 'prototypessuch fearful anathemas! W r j would not have t.tkcn notice of the j mamrreuce that - of ~uri conteurporaries so much but it is our deli-lit to f tr.-«.' Ihuhlmi.;. \ although we are coiwince.l that the pn'.U--. j having already formed a proper fc-sftmaf.e n f the whote sifua.r.bn f have laughed. heartily at tlw piuchU.-.ek h--£jf horr-.r of our ci>nteittporavu-s. Shortly, thu n the : cause of all the groaning ; Th.. Flon. Mr. j Waterhoase had bec-uuo almost impatient throng waittntr foe s-nuethi-n- in our j political world to turn up. when, he th-"a-kt the happy momeat ~f his anvUfce.rt !;:--l at | Ut arrived: The *".:.!-im't h:vl -pb' ov,-r| Chi.. l,uckie,or rather unlucky, app-in-t-j nu-nt, and hj« at one-- t-->/raphed c " r,U J friend and coad|.u-tor the It'-rt. _ Mr. j the ».l alturs. | !*rut recommendtn- certain friends a»\ mumber* of a, new Ministcy. The tele- | graphist. it appear, traustnou'ritied: the honse." and the Hon. Mr. Halt, we should think he was very mm-h sitrprtsed at the „.pp*rerit trai-f.-rous-ness- uf one of the memt'er* i-t ffie tlvey administration, senr a reply to C'ototist Whittnore, believing that it was hU name that, had: been nmtifated. sualterations itr the programme The was. we hear, marked "private at tie heiut. and - confidential" at Hie foot, the transmitter, we presume, having formed a proper estimate -of the game in which be was engaging. Hut whtlst it was the policy of the intriguers to «Stf cvery wndeaffmr to draw a enrtaitv before thevr operations, it was that of the fther*idst.> draw it aside. Accordingly, when CTototvet Whitmore received the msawK,'* ftß-wa» gratefttl that he had been sh-wn the train by which he and his «ottea.gttes were to bo Mown into fragments, and in his gratitude hj» very property, we think, informed his associate*. This b what the Herald professes to ttuivk *»> very shocking. Jlat we cannnt see anything to ! be showed Btstrt. A plot was laid W Messrs. W»tofß»»rwcftn*i ftatt.an»l Colonel Whitmow it. been assisted to' tU so» by one of the- : Mr. H»M, where he worded hts telegram, thottght that he was addressing a friend, and he made »tip«tati.>n* as to 8«B(5T«j«y that w»»td have been binding. : as » matte* ** p*>tt«yr «pon one of Ids -■«-- ft«w* r *>««»«*» Kfoa secrecy depended the : su«(!(P8»»f th» idea bttt it fell into- the- hands of »o BWemjf-ißtw the hands ef en« «>f 'r l *' Bß aga*" 3 ' wh / im *' Whiitmot* ha» no- W"' irß htrt p*ditical tciuuMSft than he ha* his name. ; t\don«l Whitmore and his solteagrtes fett . that an attempt was being roa&j hy thetr ypponents tk> «eate dislike to- ttufin thwnghottt ttw Colony, ami dtsaentioa* in ;th«- Cabinet, m ««tvae«fttcnc»? »f the ' differences that «siste«i aWttt the hankie :apfemtn«ie. and that the action of ! Messrs, and Ilnil was rery : like an attempt ttn- «*cttpy another manV ! boot* Wfur» 1m» »»* (t - Water * ■ howse-IMlAVhitraofß afiair reminds ns that we- have heard of such a ifrdng »» i eobWty «ron» oeextpant of a grave- in a l«ho«:r*y«»l, where, just as ring* tfore itwing abstratittetil fwm the finger of a ! Bupp«a«4e»Tpae, the midnight depredators I havtt fc««n »tartl«*i fey aigna ©f retaniing J animation- in the apparently lifeless clay. I Of coarse, if graveyard maraodera arc ! connwwntinf with each »ther, we afai>old ! taiok tfeat they wooM ad«pt every means of tasorins the strictest secrecy; but

supposing a communication making an appointment to pillage a certain grave for the sake of the jewels that have been interred with a newly buried body, fell int» the hands of a relation of the body that it was propped to fleece, would the ! words " private" and "confidential" have any charm. >Ve think not It is a good thing that the opinions of Mr. Hail as to the men that should form a Ministry have I Wen made known. It « a pity for Mr. Hall and fits friends that those opinions 'should have leaked out, but it is one of lth''*<? instances in which a man has had a : weapon plated in his hands by his opponent with which to defend himself.