BACK GULLY JOTTINGS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1484, 17 December 1884, Page 2

BACK GULLY JOTTINGS.

(To the Editor, Lva.vgahua Times.) Sir.— Tn my last budget of Reefton news T find that the oracle has spoken through the "fertile" columns of the Intm-gahua fle-uld and revealed to the public the existence of a man living in our midst "not an Israelite" but an Hibernian indeed, in whom there is no guile. Re'oice and be glad Oye faithful that ye have amongst you an inspired editor, and a County Chairman who is utterly incapable of doing anything but right. Paine, reflect, and consider well all y« unbelievers ere yo reject the admonition proceeding from such a mastermind, as reflected in the columns of the Inanrjahua Herald, woull it were possible for all ye Reefton sceptics to give ear to the announcements heralded to you | through its inspired columns. The oracle I then goes on from revelation to law and I politics, and pronounces the decision of I Mr Revell in cancelling the elections of Reefton, Murray and Cruihington wrong and illegal. That he v the oracle" the no less influential personage the " County Clerk " are the best judges, and all the faithful are in duty hound to accept, and submit to their dictum. He also justifies the action of the Council in their selection and appointment of subservient and servile returning officers who would ignore the Counties Act and be guided through the County Clerk. He likewise assures us that the ensuing collections shall or should be conducted on the same principles as the last; this fiat issuing from such cardinal authority as the editor of the Tnunqahui Hetald must surely stag^ur Mr Rovell and all the ntlu-.r R.M's who gave, similar dwisionfi upon KiuiHir grounds. But then wo must not lone eight of the fact that tho oracls is

' subservient to the man who is incapable ' of doing wrong, and alt who are autago nistic to his unerring conduct are decidedly in error and liable to the maledictions of the faithful. Yours &c. Old Gully Raker.