CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2090, 8 July 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

J. A. T. sends ns the following from Mr Hogg’s paper, the Carterton ‘ Observer ’of July sth “ Pressure on onr space prevents ns dealing with the Atheistical Editor of the Standard in this issue. Notwithstanding that gentleman’s high literary attainments, hie extraordinary command of the foulest lan* gnage the Oreytown rag is still given away in Carterton for nix. We are very much afraid that hie patrons have cause to bitterly regret their connection with soloathtomc ananimal.\ We refur J. A. T. to our issue of July 6, and to the article therein " Cleansing Them.” We shall from time to time publish simi'ar lists of these people's epithets. The worst of it is that all U e ' Observer ’ scurrility which is very feeble and smacks of the lo.w bar and billiard-room would be more amusing did we not know that the ma i (Mr Hogg) who eitber writes or suggests such low rubbish is actually a candidate for the House of Representatives. Purely a country is ruh.vjd to a low ebb when such persons can aspire to legislate for ns and for the younger generations of New Zealand. Such language used in a respect' able billiard room for instance would be oor reeled sternly and promptly, and yet the user of it wants decent men to send him to Par' iiament. Morality—Yes, we are perfectly aware of the gross scandal to which yon refer, bnt are unwilling to mention such things in a paper which young people see. The adult population of Cartertuu know the scandal and should suppress it. (2) Have patience, these matters will adjust themselves and the persons concerned are beneath notice. Enquirer.—Mr Bunny holds, we believe, the following appointments ; 1. Member Waste Lands Board. 2. Member Education Board. 3. College Qovernor. 4. Member Charitable Aid Board. 5. Major, Commandant of his district.

A.R.—Yes—but it is cruel work * breaking butterflies on wheels.’ However, if he mis* behaves again we will insert your letter, bat we have no - desire to really inj are the cress tare.

Lex—“ while admitting the general corn redness " of onr leader of the Ist inst., on the subject of lawyers, considers we are outside the facts' in stating that onr statute books are encumbered with tons of ponderous and pernicious rubbish, and he does “ not believe that Acts are complicated for the sake of making work for lawyers." Nevertheless the proof of out assertions is demonstrated daily in one or other of pur New Zealand towns or cities. Take a case in point. On July Ist the Wellington bankrupt, W. R Waters, was acquitted. Was be acquitted owing to any deficiency in evidence ? Emphatically, no ! but becaase oar Bankruptcy law , framed by lawyers, was rotten, useless, and cumbered with absurdities. His Honor, Mr Justice Richmond, spoke of the law as ‘‘ridiculous;” he declared that "want of brain work ” was evident in the Act. It is a fair statement that nearly half the kcu proposed daring the past session were “ Amendment ” Acte. It would have been comical had it not been painful, to see Mr Samuels, or Mr Downey Stewart, when a Bill was in Committee, bop up and propose a clause or amendment, the logical sequence of which was to complicate legislation. Take one other case—The Police Offences Act, 1884. This, as it originally stood, made it illegal for anyone to work on a Sunday, but (then) Mr Robert Stoat interpolated the words—" at bis trade or calling.” Consequence ; a painter may not paint his garden fence on a Sunday,may nor a carpenter repair his fence, but if the two men ate living next door to one another, the carpenter may jump over the fence and paint the painter’s side, and the painter may jump ovbr and mend the carpenter’s side, because neither is then working at bis “ trade or calling.” Did Lex, except in very.rare instances, ever see, in this colony, a rich man punished and a poor one escape for the same breach of the law ? No 1 But he has seen the rich escape and the , poor man most vindictively punished. He may thank lawyers’ Isw and lawyers’ legal loopholes for it. A clear headed layman could write, with a mop and a bucket of tar, clearer he*de>! laws than many we now possess. We want lass law and more jnsiice, that's what’s the matter with New Zealand. Dive “ Satan’s Own ’’ a rest.