LOYALTY AND GOOD TASTE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 86, 19 December 1874, Page 5

LOYALTY AND GOOD TASTE.

Such of our readers as may be curious to investigate the most recent exquisite specimens of loyalty and good taste, had better provide themselves with the ' Otago Daily Times' of Tuesday last, the 15th instant, and carefully read its leader, l^or disrespectful tone and ribald language this leader surpasses anything that has appeared even its own columns for some time. Aud what is still more surprising is that there is no apparent provocation for this ill-timed and ill-mannered outburst. The writer of the article attacks the reputation of two !New Zealand governors — the one that has just departed, and the one that has just arrived. For the short time that he was here Sir James Eergxtsscks", instead of doing anything deserving of the animadversions of the ' Times,' gave ample proof of good sense, right feeling, and great ability. His moral qualities, extensive knowledge, and high position ought to have shielded him — at least in the columns of a respectable journal — from attacks to which even Billingsgate would hardly condescend. ' Then the incoming governor, the Marquis of NoßiiAJraY, receives a slap ia the face, and gets notice of what is in store for him in the polite and' almost perfectly schooled Province of Otago.