OUT AND ABOUT TOWN.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 52, 22 September 1885, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT TOWN.

(To the Editor of the P.B. Independent.) Mr Editor —I must confess to having experienced no small amount of surprise at the amount of forbearance which you have of late exercised towards your quaking contemporary But perhaps you have been acting tipon the plan of “ give him rope enough and ■he will hang himself.” If so you are wrong, as the public executioner has already booked him.

In spite of the caution to those who “ live in glass houses ” not to throw stones they are generally the first to do Example.—Last week the-Geijtility-wim&SUAbility—StKip book was sorely exercised in its mind—no not its mind ; it has not got one—in its pocket at seeing a long impounding notice in the Independent. Result—Poundkeeper stuck up and expostulated with—then threatened. Irate poundkeeper tells his interviewer to go to a place where he would no doubt be quite at home. Next day the interviewdr’s journal is suddenly taken with much concern at the cattle being impophded so long without being advertised in his paper, and a column of the usual gruel water is administered to the public on the subject—No, the object. »Road Board member’s are next interviewed upon the subject and the usual backjdoor buisness is indulged in—Must jbe used to hanging about the babk floors — congenial occupation! And /yet all this while there was the same (thing taking place at the Matawhero Round ! See the pound notices of ttih same date in his own bulletin. I don't know whether you noticed it or not but the genteel journal of the 17th published nearly the whcSe of your cable news which appeared in the Itdependent of the 15th. I expect shortly to hear some more blowing on their part about the “ latest news ”P-as the news is undoubtedly late enough in reaching their readers. That was a well directed shell which you fired last Saturday, and a few more such bombs will effectually blow the Borough into pieces of Wards (and Kenny's.) If you carry out the flank movement properly you cannot fail in turning your enemy’s front (oh yes they have a fine front) and they cannot now possibly retreat by way of the Turanganui Bridge—that " greatest work (job I mean) on the East Coast.” Keep your eye on the sappers and miners of the water scheme, and drainage squad or they will sap the town, and leave nothing to be divided.

I. thought we had enough to do to run our own show just now, without trying to manage three others, as we have done during the past week. Some of the money would have looked far better on the right hand side of some or the store ledgers But then the whitewash brush soon makes all right again. The knowing ones seem to be keeping the harbor site very dark, and the appointment of a committee of country (Patutahi) members to determine upon the stone question looks very funny.' Isn’t it nearly time to cut another piece off the bridge. _________ Snide.