The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1884. THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1183, 27 May 1884, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1884. THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

The Resident Magistrate did not attend the Temuka Court yesterday, and consequently there was no sitting of the Court. There were some cases of pressing urgency set down for hearing, but they had to be adjourned, and in all probability the parties interested w ill be too late next Monday, as the defendants are travelling play-actors who may be out of the colony before that time. There was also a man from Timaru waiting to get his case heard, but he had to go back as he came, and .will have to come again next Monday, This is simply scandalous, The country is paying a man for attending to these matters, and it is nothing short of an outrage upon justice to allow him to absent himself whenever lie likes. The people that put up with this deserve very little sympathy, and the Government that tolerates it must be a corrupt oiip. But we have so frequently called attention to the matter before that we deem it useless to go any further with it, . » THE ASHBURTON SEAT. Amongst those who are seeking the suffrages of the Ashburton electors at present, is a working man named Jolly. Mr Jolly on last Saturday evening addressed a crowded audience in Ash,- • burton,, and received a patient and j uninterrupted hearing, although he has i

risen out of such dense obscurity that his Chairman staled he knew nothing at all about him. We particularly wish to emphasise this fact, because we think the example might well be followed by the people of Temuka, We are afraid that if a working man of Temuka stood up to address his fellow-electors, and to ask for their votes to send him to Parliament, his reception would not bo a very pleasant one, and hence our reason for drawing special attention to this matter. However, we do not wish to dilate on the subject. " A nod is as good as a wink," and if our words can have any effect —which we doubt—we have said enough to show that to give everv one a fair hearing is after all the pleasantest, the most profitable, and the most respectable way. But although the public gave a good hearing to Mr Jolly, the Press does not seam to take much notice of him. The Ohristchurch Press gave a short notice of his address, in the course of which the writer expressed amazement at Mr Jolly's wonderful cleverness, but did not report one single utterance of hie. That blatant champion of the working man, the Lyttelton Times, ignored Mr Jolly altogether. The Ashburton papers have not yet reached us, and consequently we canuot say how they have treated him, but we sincerely hope they have not followed the example of their metropolitan brethren. The laws of this country entitle every man—without any reference to social standing—to offer himself as a candidate for any constituency, and if a poor man does so, and proves himself possessed of talents and aptitude for the position, his utterances ought to receive due respect. It is a mean thing to ignore a man because he is poor. We have hitherto been governed by the rich and influential and a sorry mess they have made of it. They have brought this splendid colony with its population of half a million to the verge of ruin, and when such is the case we do not think that there is anything at all extraordinary in working men offering themselves as candidates. They could not do one bit worse than has been done in the past, whereaß the probabilities are that they would do better. SiR JULIUS VOGEL. Gisborne is not going to have Sir Julius Vogel, and we are glad of it. .The Ashburton people, however, are in treaty with him, and it is very probable he will get elected for that constituency. He will suit the goahead, enterprising, spirited people of that place. His large ideas and extravagant notions will chime in with theirs exactly, and his election, if he stands, is pretty well secured. We regret this. Unless Sir Julius Vogel has something behind what has already appeared in his published address, his entrance into Parliament would be fraught with much danger to the colony. His principal ideas are extravagant borrowing, more immigration, and the completion of railways. We have already dealt with these sub" jects in a previous issue, but there is one point more in connection with Sir Julius Vogel which renders it undesirable that he should enter the House. He has admitted that he »?ill be leaving the colony in a few months, and that he could not possibly remain any longer iu Parliament. This of itself is sufficient to condemn him. He is also a man who has an axe to grind. He makes a claim for about £7OOO on the Government of the coloay, and is most anxious to push it. If he got into the position of Premier, we are inclined to believe that he would have very little difficulty in getting that sum, whether it is due to him or not. At best Sir Julius Vogel must be looked upon as a political adventurer, who would leave us in a few months, and consequently we think Ashburton will make a grand mistake in electing him.