CONCORDIA DISCORS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 163, 8 February 1878, Page 2

CONCORDIA DISCORS.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail,

g IR) —I was very much amused on reading the reported doings of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board on Saturday last, where another storm-in-a-teapot has occurred. I involuntarily remarked — "pabu lum for the papers, and more fun for the gossips. Just so." Whatever can be the matter? Two members bolted; two more left in a tantrum; whatever can be the matter? I again ejaculated. "Oh, its nothing," remarked my old friend, who usually calls of a morning, and whom I had not previously observed, "it appears milking time had arrived—important hour and you know, my friend, there is a truism often repeated:—' Those who I neglect their own affairs are not fit persons to be entrusted with the affairs of others.' The remaining two have certainly blown a terrific blast expecting no doubt to ' wake the echoes.' " But again, " a tale on one side sounds well until you've heard the other." Don't you think the high-toned Harmonic Pipes (forgive me, John Sundowner, for prigging your title) might contrive to alter the key, I mean the hour, a little earlier so that the tune time (no pun intended) might suit all parties and banish thus the wail discordant. —I am, &c, HARMONICON.