THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 April 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1881.

Fob about the most, amusing piece or bombast it has been our lot to drop across for some time, commend us to the leading article in the Herald of Tuesday last: " We have no desire *o inflame ibe public mind or to dwell unduly upon .the attempt which, has been ma.de to interfere with the rights and privileges p.f the ratepayers, but" continues the valiant writer '? it woujd be a mistaken feeling of forbearance, amounting to pusillanimity, if we failed to express distrust and abhorenee (sic.) of the plan of action winch has controlled the present valuation." BraTo ! tliere is no pusillanimity about tbat, but it would puzzle-any-man-to-sec eziotly wherein thp bravery lies. To read tbe opening lines of the quotation 1 one would. be led -to expect that some motfientonoly valorous declaration of opinion was to, follow, but the writer's courage would seem to bave evaporated before his pen reached the end of the sentence. He started out with some big sentiments on band, but like soap-bubbles they would not bear handling, for bis heroism could not carry him further than expressing " distrust and abhorence P'* and how long it is since it grew to be " a mistaken feeling of forbearance amount* ing to pusillanimity" for a newspaper of even the most Bob Acrean class to cxV press " distrust and abhorrence " it would be highly interesting to learn. We have heard of the ass putting on the lion's skin, buj never came n cross a more practical exemplification of the truth of the saying than is here afforded. The real fact is that the timid editor felt that a rertain clasfi had committed an " agrarian outrage " upon the Assessment Roll, hut he bad not the courage to say so, and if this is not tbe most arrant cowardice, then Fa'staff is the very personification of valor.