“POST SESSIONAL.”

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 86, 15 December 1885, Page 2

“POST SESSIONAL.”

To the Editor of the P. B. Independent. SIR, —I wonder if our great and glorious M.H.R. (Mr Heavy-side) will take my former hint and call a public meeting, to tell us what his works were in the House lately. We are very anxious to know what good he had done for us poor devil’s —can he point io anything which he has done, or said, for our benefit. I think not, but a glorious intellect, and a little judicious palaver will make us poor foois believe anything. We would anyhow be thankful fora little Maori Land Grabbing, and Temporary Jargon, just to pass the time away you know. He need not mind what rot he talks, our “ able-editors ” will fix it up for windy counterfeits and sucklike. I should not wonder to see our local hurdy-gurdy talking aparatus playing as usual, second-fiddie to the greatest land swallower on the East Coast. Is it not a disgrace to the poeple of this district that in everything irom “ land-seizing ” downwards, we have to play second-ftddle to the astute leader of the “ tweve apostle ” tribe. Of course we know that our Mr Dolittle is very humble in his cringing service to Mr Ormond. May-be he is wailing for the Napier “ chosen one ” to speak, so that he may steal the tone and ideas with which that coldblooded humbug gulls the people of Hawke’s Bay. The jackal is waiting for the lion to roar. The jackal will imitate that glorious roar in Gisborne to our infinite delectation I hope. Diluted nunsensewill prove acceptable even. It will at least give us a chance to shout and wave our hats — saying “ God bless Massa ” —like all true and loyal social niggers. I am a poor man unfortunately. I have to use a pick and shovel. If I don’t work I get the sack. My boss wili not be so thick-skulled as to pay me my wages for nothing. But Mr Mealymouth M.H.R., is a different kind of being. He has no shame in receiving wages for doing nothing, and the unfortunately stupid sons of Adam, otherwise called electors, pay his wages without so much as a murmur. Stupidity on oneside, and shamelessness on the other, are very suitable indeed. The people have curiously enough an omnipatient talent for being gulled. Gullable however the “ free and independent ” are—(by fit apparatus, able-editors and suchlike), and gulled with the most surprising profit. Just let us glance up the East Coast, and down to Mahia. The relation existing between Lord “ Land Ho ” of Napier, and Mr Mealy-mouth of Gisborne, reminds me very much of the mutual friendliness between Appius Claudius, in Ancient Rome,

and his ignoble tool so well described by Macau fey t-*« “ Where’er down Tibari gci'bn.Je floatfl I’h.fl greedy plitfl you fcbe— And where so’er such Lord is found Such client's sure to be.” Yours &c., E. McDonald, North Gisborne.