ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 121, 6 May 1845, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Auckland Times. Sir, The kindness and humanity which has distinguished our fellow Co'onists both at Spdney, N.S. W,, and Port Nicholson, in sympathy sing with the distressicg situation ot the late residents at Russell, demands the grateful thanks of those unfortunate people. I therefore take the liberty throu h the medium of your paper, of expressing an anxious desire that a mee ing be caled to memorialize our friends who have with such promptitude hastened to relieve the distressed sufferers of the Bay. I remain, Sir, Your's ever truly, J. S, POLACK. [\lr. Polack may be well assured that this matter hus not f-een overlooked. A Public Meeting was advertised (or Monday the 2S'th inst, —and addresses We e tirepared for our generous tellow colonists m Wellington and Sydney,—to thank them for the ra st > and urge them to 'uiure kindness in our pmergencies. The Meeting was only postponed because of the absence of fifty of the refugees from the. Bay, as volunteers returning t:> that place in the pending expedition. Their presence and participation in this expression of'gratitude being considered indispensib'e. Er>. Times.]

Auckland, May I, 1845 "Dear Times, 1 " I-Don't Know " of auV precpdent for such a practice, I ut '• -hprc " Militia men are not to dine, at least n°.* so cially, for if they at<e<««iit to ( ] () S()< a vibration upon o.te of the pr otecln , a te eoni* of the presiding ** Ar'aC h j ne '» «,f Anc-kJ a,u ' is instantly set in m ot Jon, to the utter con-fti-ioti, dispersion, and disgrace of ihe i:itP!!<!itnr v'j a I iM^ What a | i'v i s it that all the vigilance in a certai-i quarter, is not tlitecteti »o more sterling ~',',,poses. We linVe P r<> " mineniiy one p PtK j (1 made "savagk" by having his cherished uioustachios irre-

trievably mutilates!!'. Dozens of other people are made petulant because of impertinent observations upon their holiest domestic affairs, And i" the mean limp real matte's of State are dropped like " lint potatoes" by fingers which are too thin skiutitd to hold rhem ! It may be said of certain modern authorities liere, as it was oi' a. hk-fi official in Rome, where it became a proverb, —

•' Sese satagit tanqnam mus in matella ' at least, it may be said, so tar as rpjnrds details and trifles, and inconsiderp.te interference, but in regard of all policies of importance and ypanjdiu&j wit!i public energies, there is nothiuu but hesitation and reluctance,—fear, change, douhl. and trembling. J will tell yon what, I'IMK-, Militia Men must not gee or accept dinner invitations. So U»«.k out in tune, if you vabo your epaijlpttca if you have any, to wag ad ex Ire man rau'em, Y"ou must theietoie dine at home, or not dine at all, so I give \ou fair warning, I am as in only bound. Your faithful Dog, 11IGDUM FUNNID >S. Thuisdav, Chimney Sweeper's Dw. P S. (" I Don't Know " any fhiris of the H. F. at Wellington, yoij tell me of ! He may be a stiav pup of the kennel', but h" dues not bark like one ) B t wiHi iegard to this dinner I would wish to remark, that the fciMiitnaii'ier oi fo'fces w ho appoints a licntcu/nt. one (fay and calls him a "goose headed la L y " the next, gnes a long wav 'o an;> p.ovih'g HIMSELF a greaser " G«v>Si'.Y " Oitiellw was a MAORIE, but h- k >'e<* how to choose liftween layo StHI what jtidgmeit* is there in such Insult, dip behaviour as this! ii beats jwhuuy lieki hollow, tt. F.