LIKE MASTER, LIKE MAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 March 1881, Page 2

LIKE MASTER, LIKE MAN.

» The above is a very aocient apothegm, and is being exemplified just now in this part of the country in a very amusing manner. It may be recollected, guys* writer in the" Dunedin Star." that the last Superindent of Otago absolutely refused for a lone time to give np the. keys of the Provincial buildings when abolition had become a realised fact. In the palmy days of his nuperintendeney His Honor had many faithful adherents, none mom so than a gentleman whom we will oalll B. B stuck to his colors in divers potin tions, having attached to them theao* aidents of pay. until they were no colort to stick to ; hut a turn of the wheel put his old patron into office as Minister of Public Works. Under a truly liberal adminstration all friends are provided for, and a bran new station was established on a Southern railway and B duly in* stalled as stalionmasfer at a good screw and a capital residenoe built for him alongside the line. All went smoothly until a few months ago, when all necessary expenditure had to be ruthlessly cut down. As the station presided o?er by B was found to be more ornamental than useful it was suppressed, and B received the ordinary compensation for loss of office. He still, however, true to his old Pro* vincial proclivities, sticks to the official residence, and there is likely to be very considerable difficulty in getting him ou*. as the hon«e stands on a sort of '* no man's land."