WAYSIDE NOTES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 415, 28 April 1904, Page 5

WAYSIDE NOTES.

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The " Old Man " has stooped from his lofty altitude to expostulate with the Town Council on their chuckleheadednees in not drawing the town water supply from the slopes of the range o'er which he rules supreme. Exultingly he marka-the hit the Council have received and exclaims "hmbit' —a most expressive Latin term when used in the sense applied. The gladiatorial arena on which the Council's thousands were open for conquest lay exposed to the * Old Man's' view. He marked the "dry, rabbit-infested ruins

o£ Galloway " and then cast his rolling eye towards hia own " perpetual snows • and pellucid streams," which; "the Council rejected for a " waterless scheme." 'Habit F say all of us, for the councillors are hit to a man. The one against* the nine comes off the winner in the contest.

Think not that I am callous enough to glory in the hit our councillors have been dealt by themselves, nor yet in the hit given by the one to each of the nine. Oh dear no ! But, as the * Old kMan * estimates—and few can gainsay \\& knowledge—" they ■ (the councillors) " took up a strategic position hv the mud, where there was no danger of being inconvenienced by the pretence of clean water," Excellent I • «*A strategic position in the snud. f, | * Can"you go one better, Mr-Editor?"

• • • • ■..'-. With superb indifference the rate-; payers note the fact that nominations Ire being called- for vacant sehta at the council table. -jSuch honourable positions go a-begging, for no levelheaded business man cares to be a buffer in daring to do all that becomes the position. Airthfrsame time, can our bud-i . mnmek J iflrexert- thpsw •elves in some little measure for their, less happily situated fellow-citueni, lay tt^fl^f^jW^PM lo Bo'ulß*that they h*v* not w&Sngly disjj of their buwiiMjMiimeJi|fr the bene-!' fit of their falgtafelSf l To suchf as take .tii*panage"ant cOSStea "of tRW in] well, their" indifference V&fe Selfish-' g£§wri«»Jarget *V ™ JJ?->*4

'.»f. . * •".:?*.'!' -V **•! tBfJH The fact that .mdiffißrence'*2& municipal affiurs ! leasly, the too patent to cXHPament/appfl, A* &? same tim^ : maum pal affaire 'pwrtihue !r^xed|th%^(W; . retrograde; fi^ f parity has been made. But as!*eau| % »B more or : less irrterdependent"*' on the\ other, iridiffeleTice may" spread, if not nipped in she «ouncillors, who, in time, may asaiaif lhat they hold end not by acquired gter the Cforpojations' £ct£

- The redoubtable General Booth has: another Bee in his bonnefc The re-' "clamation *>f the Submerged Tenth of the great cities of thß Homeland is but a short step to the enfranchisement of the loafer of the same 4itieC The General says u they maetibja-made to work." Wnoeverheardofaithorough--bred loafer workiEg f, TuSyiaye all been born tired, and they need;res|. The breed is not unknown- ya the colonies, where the General wmld dump his enfranchised; ones.;aown. TJntil the loafing fraternity becomes extinct in*: New Zealand may the General leare us to nianufacfeieour own degenerates'lw»ordihg tw.caldnial pattern. We ask no more, from the General,- except hie blessing, than to be left alone to" work but our own destinies in our own way. jjgg _-_.. ] ,'*