THE MINISTERIAL PERAMBULATION.

Southland Times, Issue 3317, 6 February 1879, Page 3

THE MINISTERIAL PERAMBULATION.

Editor Times! — Allow me in common to thank you for' to-day's leading article. Such an article as that to appear now and then might be a sufficient guide lo the people of this .town and country without the aid of speakers and materials from other quarters, as that appeared on Saturday night, under the patronage of any association led by "fuglemen." As people in common -with yourself aijree that the Hon. the Attorney-General and Minister for Lands combined in no- less a personage than the odium theologicum, "Mr Robert Stout;" to be so far-fetched with the view to set class against class in this quiet community "at the " instigation of such authority is no great credit to the town, and no one would be more apt to observe such" weakness in others than the same

V .g6ntieman,lif practised:, alike, so lavishly, as . 'X j J Jhe .does, himself-- sihce'hediasheld'Jthe reins ;JZ 'ofj'j^erw This to such a degree tliaHie •^^'jniWt.feayeim i; J-., self, more 'cohsjpicuous v ; thah Ins neighbors. Hehcb he has taken the Coioijial Treasurer - ;;< »sliis a^bciate.in.h^^ .. prorTefl^rjalanced ■ m 'his vwb-f old capacity as Minister of the Crown. I think it;is ■ high time 'thb: people of this town and ■ • .country shotild. make. a; ; stand, and.put a stop to sucfctoadyisiri as thatjexhibiteel amongst a fewj-tbthe disgust of the many, for the last few^ days, -if not ' weeks. However, perhaps J^they" ought to be expressed, as -^^Jj^-mj^JkCth^ can shew their etiquette and high breed-ing.-rr-I'.amj. &cry r " : • """"'" " W. Looker ox. - '■'■-; v ; Febmary-4th, 1879. w „ ,.,.