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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 607, 14 May 1891, Page 2

Because Mr Kenny was retrenched the Napier Telegraph goes into tears—bitter, bitter tears, in which dreadful wrath Is mingled with pitiful sorrow. It talks of unfortunate victims sacrificed for an abominable purpose, of scandalous outrages, of high jipks in the public service, of notoriously incompetent administrators, and so on. But even the distressed Telegraph sees a silver lining of hope in this inky black cloud of political wickedness, for it remarks that out of evil good may came, and the country “ will see how necessary it is to clip the wings of Ministers and teach these political mosquitoes that they Rhe but ordinary men.’’ By the way, “ these political mosquitoes ” being taught that they are “but ordinary men’’ isn't bad, and we suppose that Ministers will thank the Telegraph and other Conservative Journals for such humane treatment. We had almost got to believe that they were monsters of a very bad type. And gentle Mr Kenny, the innocent cause of all this outpouring of wrath—how his placidity must be disturbed by the tumult. But joking aside, we do not think that he 1 individually either expects or desires t<? ’

gain any consideration by this senseless howl that has been got up for political ends. The twaddle about scandalous outrages, about sacrificing unfortunate victims for an abominable purpose, and such-like sorry scribbling, ought to convince intelligent taxpayers that if the present system is not good there is yet a worse to which there may possibly be a retrogression.