PETITIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 115, 24 August 1877, Page 3

PETITIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE AKABOA MAIL. Sir, —I little thought that when I addressed a few lines to you upon the subject of signatures within your lovely village, that such a storm in a teapot would arise. It is something dreadful, the breathings out of fire and slaughter that some of your citizens and dignitaries have threatened. Igo to a store to purchase some of the noxious weed, when I am saluted by " I say, are you the Sundowner? because, if you are not, you know who is, and I'll make it hot for some of you yet; twisting Venus, indeed." Your humble servant for five minutes is saluted with .adjectives, informed that " I am an adjective substantive," because I denied my "identity with the Sundowner. I ask, Sundowner —do you ever for a moment dream that I carried a black billy? However, I fancy I have a clue, obtained •thus : —Walking down the principal street of your splendid borough towards the jetty which is about to be removed, -casting my eyes skywards opposite a store of magnitude, I espied a flag-pole, surmounted by a weathercock, and, to ■my horror, I perceived that during the previous night Akaroa had turned itself completely round. Either this has occurred and led to the turmoil now raging in angry bosoms, or all the philosophers from Gallilleo to Sir Richard Airey must be wrong , in supposing that tlie earth revolves in the direction they have stated. I would draw your notice to this, as it is possible that if the pole and weathercock be lowered to counteract the effect produced on my mind, it may result in appeasing the wrath now in existence, and also may lead to a reconsideration of "the subject of the removal of the jetty. MIDDLE-ENDIAN.