The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 859, 9 August 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1879.

If a man be in possession of a gun, with powder and am munition, and he employs, his weapon to slioot at everyone he dislikes or has a distate for — what should be done to that man \ If another has a newspaper at his command, and he villifies and slanders those who may hot please him, or fall ia with his wiews — whatshonldbe done t > tluit man 1 We think the gun should be taken from the first, and the second should be deprived of his paper through which he exhibits so much malignancy. The attack on Mr. A. Y. Ross was most unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprovoked. Mr. Ross is not an ignorant man ; but is well informed and intelligent. He has his peculiar crotchets and peculiarities, which he airs upon occasion. We think we could name other men suffering from the same mental affliction. We think that a man who may have sacrificed every friend he ever possessed, and has surrounded himself by a host of enemies, does not sleep the flounder nor eujoy the pleasantries of life, mental arid physical for having done so. A Nemesis never fails to overtake him. People are asking — why this great mystery, as touching the entertainment to take place at Mr. McFah■l axe's Hall this evening. We think we can find a solution which will meet the enquiry. The moving spirit of the affair possesses a thorough knowledge of human nature. He is a gentleman who never shows his hand, whether it holds aces or deuces. Who Mrs. W. is, or Miss 8., or Mr. C. or who is " Tini," or who the " gentleman amateur " has to be discovered, ami the discovery can only be made by going to-night and finding out. Nothing will be known excepting through an " Enquire Within," price four shillings, bound in chair backs, or three snillings bound in boards. A Wellington journal, who at one time, not so very long ago, was a tremendous stickler for the Native department being kept intact, having been largely subsidised through its advertising columns, but now subsidised no longer, approves of the suggestion made a few days ago

in the Legislative Council by Captain Fraser, who proposed, although not in the form of a set motion, a, cure for the unsatisfactory condition of Maori matters — a remedy not indeed wholly novel, but one which has been in desuetude since the unsucessful trial of Mr. Fawkes two or three centuries since. The Government, said the gallant captain, should put a barrel of dynamite beneath the Native Office, and let it, with all the fungoid growth of iniquities that had sprung up around it, be blown up into the air. Now, the Native department is being continually blown up ;' but nothing ever of it but the making of new 'appointments.

An advertisement emanating from a registry office in Melbourne lately announced that there were vaoancies for a governess and a cook, the salary being the same in each case, namely, £30 a year. Some forty well-educated ladies applied for situation of governess, but for the position of cook there was a single applicant, which, in our humble opinion, goes to show that women who can please our palates and aid digestion, are much more appreciated than those who teach badly ia families what is much better taught in the public schools. To be a good cook is to be associated with one of the divine arts, and is the gift of the few. A governess can be built up out of any school girl.

While on the subject of school teaching, we may refer to a curious letter, which has appeared in the Wellington Chronicle. The writer considers that every public school should have a laundry, and kitchen attached to it, with attendant teachers to instruct girls how to wash, iron, and scrub. Well, the world is daily filling with wonders. It's a funuy idea that of training children to become washerwomen and charwomen. Might not the scheme be carried out a little farther. Why should school masters not teach children to black and polish their own boots, offering competitive prizes to boys who take thejshine out of each other.

WiS have heard not a few of the electors say that if more than one Poverty Bay candidate goes to the poll they will record their votes for Captain Morris j and some of those, at least who say so mean it.

There surely should be no difficulty, by employing clerical aid, to send a circular to each elector whose name stands on the roll, and with it the names of the candidates, the electors to leave in the candidate for whom he gives the preference, and running his pen through the rest. Then let the circulars be forwarded by return post to the Secretary of the Committee. We should, by this method, see what candidate's sails the wind favored,

There are five candidates in the field for Parliamentary honors. Who is to be t/ie man is ecxiting interest. Unless four can be induced to withdraw iu favor of the fifth, the game must end in a " draw" by no one being elected. Let the candidates and electors consider this in their own interests. We have a letter from an unreflecting correspondent, who recommends that the candidates should be put in a bag, and the first shaken out to be the prize-holder. It would be hard to find a bag to hold five such large-sized candidates as are in the running. With the exception of one the rest wiould not tui'n the beam at 15 stone and upwards.

When the word of a statesman, a scholar, and a nobleman, who is at the same time a Prime Minister, will not, because it cannot be taken, he must have sunk so low in his own estimation that there is nothing which remains for him but to seek some sequestered shelter where he will be forgotten and there to die unlionoured and unsung. Sir Wil mam* Fox and his adherents have refused to accept Sir George Grey's promise that he will clissol ve the House at the earliest opportunity. They have compelled him so to fix the day that there is not a loop-hole from which he can escape — can anything be more humiliating 1

The electors of Poverty Bay have given no sign as to what policy they look for from the candidates, now iu the field, to pursue. Apathy reigns supreme ; but should they not be satisfied with the member returned they will denounce him as a renegade without being able- to say in what, how, or where.