THAT "JACK-IN-OFFICE" AGAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 88, 20 February 1879, Page 2

THAT "JACK-IN-OFFICE" AGAIN.

The Wellington Chronicle thus mildly exhorts its latest adversary:—That cantankerous, ill-bred, ill-tempered, and very poor creature, Mr Ebenezer Baker, Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court, and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty, is" on the rampage" again, One of our clerks waited on " Marshal Ebenezer" today, and-politely asked an order for the insertion of a short advertisement concerning the holding of'an Assessment Court of tho Borough of Wellington, the sittings of which take place on Thursday, 20th February, at the Residont Magistrate's Court,§ Wellington. Now the Evoning Chronicle has always had this particular advertisement sent to it, It is a matter of right. It refers to a matter concerning the Borough Council, and as wo go to much expense in reporting the proceedings of that body, its advertisements have ever been given to us as a matter of course. But this petty official, Mr Ebenezer Baker, to-day thought proper not only to refuse to give the advertisement, but also to grossly insult our employee, " No!" shrieked Eenozev, spitting' forth his words, accompanied with small jets of saliva, "I shan't givo any advertisement to the Evening Chronicle I will only givepublicadvertisements (paid for with public. money, by the way) to such papers as I please. I, being Clerk of tho R.M. Court, will do exactly as I like in the matter of avertiaements,"- And then " Ebenezer" scowled and " gimed," and put on an expression of countenance so utterly demoniacal as to convince all on-lookers that " the old Adam" had got completely the mastery of the Plymouth Brother. This is inexpressibly sad, and as wo write our hot and bitter tears aro dropping upon tho paper to think of the grievous fall and backsliding of theimmaculate" Baker." However, we do not despair of "Ebenezer" even yet. We shall yet re-construct him, raise his moral tone, and cure him'of practising his mean, spitoful, and altogether unwarrantable practices in respect to act unjustly and partially in the manner in whioh he sends advertisements to the newspapers. Because Ebenezer Baker, a paltry clerk in n public office, happens to have a personal hatred of a particular public journal of large circulation and influence" like, the Evening Chronicle, is it not monstrous that he should be permitted to gratify his malice by withholding an advertisement from its columns which it is essential for the public- interest should bo published therein! On the broad principle of fairplay, and of the public interest, we shall bring the conduct of Mr Ebenezer Baker, clerk of the R.M. Court, under the notice of tho polical head of his dopartmenMhe Minister of Justice,