De mortuis nil, nisi bonum.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 34, 16 February 1843, Page 2

De mortuis nil, nisi bonum.

This is a stupid maxim, and we pin no faith to the propriety ot it, — but as the Government Oracle is nearly defunct, and yet in a state that is not quite past feelihg,—and whereas and morerelish the idea of Tom Moore— When a man has Knock’d funder-* to strife© at himlthen By the fist of my father! I blush' for thee Ben we do abstain from any thing more at present than to announce the fact, that tne doctors nonsense—the lawyers have given up “ The Chronicle/’ There is to be a tv /ike over the urhappy periodical, for he has died so often, and is so torpid during the short periods ot his greatest convalescence, that there is hope of the galvanic battery of the Government provoking new life even yet We don’t know, we _ can’t tell, but we are afraid the last kind office of writing his eulogy and epitaph is all that is now left to his afflicted friend ‘-The Old Lady of the Mangle/’ W e promise to do this in verse or prose, upon the shortest noice, if Messrs. Langford and Gardiner will favor us with the order. The parishioners of St Paul’s Church will be pleased to see upon a visit to the building that the preparations for the commencement of divine service are in a forward state. The trustees however, have been over sanguine in naming so early a day as the first Sunday in March for the important date of its opening ; it will be still some weeks later,! we think, probably, at the fesli-j val of Easter : not an inappro- 1

priate occasion, but we are yet advocates for a week-day, and a public celebration. Will the trustees take into consideration our hint of levelling the ground which surrounds the building, so far as to consult the opinions of the owners of the surrounding 'and.