PETITIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 112, 14 August 1877, Page 3

PETITIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AIjAROA MAIL. Sir, —What is all this row about petitions? I have been asked to sign one to remove a beak; one to shift the public buildings, and a third, (save the mark) to shift the jetty. As a comparatively newcomer, in fact only a visitor, I am perplexed as to the course I ought to take. It seems to me, that Swift's battle of the egg question, as recorded in Gulliver's Travels, is about to be re-enacted, the onlj T doubt in my mind being as to which is the big,' and which the little end; What between the contemplated transfer of public property, and the deadly effort about to be made by the two ends to destroy one another at football upon an early date, like myself, I think you will find yourself in a quandary, and coincide with me in the opinion that we had better drag the two ends of the Borough together; have it out; make the skin and hair fly, and finally bury the hatchet in a cask of Hooper's XXX." In conclusion, I would draw the expectant combatant's attention to that be-e-e-au-tifal poem, commencing: !' Birds in their little nests agree," and the last verse of which runs thns :— Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For 'tis their nature too, Let bears, and lions growl and fight, ~**"" Then why not me and you?' :■•-•■"■■ I am; &••, .V*&',-*-' :•■ MIDDLE—ENDIAN.