ST. ANDREW TO THE RESCUE.

Southland Times, Issue 3856, 29 October 1880, Page 3

ST. ANDREW TO THE RESCUE.

O for an hour oi Wallace wight, , Or Well^laited We* to rule the fieht, And cry—" St. Andrew for the right I" TO twb EDITOR. Si«,— Mr Andrew Kinross, who evidently believes himself to be a kind of political ••Saint Andrew," has of late frequently, ♦ in seascdi .Ug^ $$*£ .tffcsQfi^dished up $ot th* readersof "your contemporary, and I think for those also of your own " broadJ 1 ttfcetf ' hfeitiaentttions over the political *"" Tprofligacy o£ * ne colony generally, in the Inatter of the choice of political reprer^gttß^*^^d|»w^i(?nlarly in respect to the ■Jopmar^imdness which fails to discover In the self -canonised political saint all the i;atnres of a "born statesman." It is, in &ct, a case of others not seeing a man as k- sees himself. It is evident froita the Subject matter of the letters over the \ anbecriptioo "Andrew . Kinross," that that gentteinan has a political clxsed of a very proßonpced type ;■ and- it is. also evident '" ■fwraat"' political creed is" "Andrew Kinross." No opportunity, in season nor out of -fceilob, eSeap&J that gentleman to place "Andrew Kinross" in the fore front Ih the political market. Neither is he very particular aSoutlhe choice of means to that end. His fondness for contrasting hit «W& political virtues Sfith tb« flagrant Vices °f Borne other petsbirt— broadly tinted at— leads him into very gros^ mis--10 construction of facts wlien pouring cut 1 : inn wailings ov^r t!ie degenerate age Shioh Qontinues to walk in darknes- in te presence of so greaT" a light. One would suppose that some political election contest was-OU the tapis— some constituency to be wooed, and that our "gallant, r ,vith*n««rinff .heart, spell-bound by love, i ? tfioih¥ *cdi drenm^ pf nothing but A 'the exhibition of his oim personal chtrms, spaiing neither hair-oil nor 'A'&WtH&Mtom''' 1 *- attTHfetand win the heart of the obj«ct of his affections. Of course, he being of the dainty damsels v own class," it is to him a matter ol "regret and surprise" that the rustic lassie— she being more especially of "farmer's" breeding— does not reciprocate the widemouthed smiles accompanying his dignified addresses. However, lassies have always as a rule given, and always will give, their hearts to those of high social position— when they get the chance — for the reason, I presume, that ;here is nojthing criminal Ts folding a r^liigh social position," but much to be coveted therein. They are not generally asses who make for themselves a high social position in the colonies. But viewing all the social evils that exist . . amongst-Ms, and, according to, Mr Kinross, ite #»ct aiatiaißch'oot for education in the "higher branches," whereat the pupils er their parents are charged the modest sum of two pounds tea; shillings per quarter, is one of them, it is a consolation to know that our " electoral laws" have placed the remedy in— "my fellow settlers'— own «~ handset Votejfor Andrew Kinross.— lam, &C -' - Q.S. InvercargilJ, 28th Oct., 1880.