RANDOM WRITINGS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 16 October 1872, Page 3

RANDOM WRITINGS.

No. 2. MORE HOT SPRINGS. I take nun, but I object to yet drunk and th» diarmrha for ono-and-sispenee. I got the latter at Ohinemutu, and I have no doubt I would have had a bad attack of the former if I had not been by early tuition accustomed to stiong drink in various forms, from sulphuric acid and bluostone t>> painkiller and solution of nicotine. There is a spiendid opening for a ehennst in the vicinity of the place they sell the above mixture. Mr JEscuDpius would make a small fortune in about a week by the simple sale of chalk mixture alone—that is, if he did not expend all his earnings in endeavouring to sustain life by paying two-und-sixpenee for his dinner in a neighbouring shanty that some people call an accommodation house. A coloured person keeps tlie hotel (?) where they soli the solutions. Other people applied for a license, when “ Blacking ” went in for it ; but Blanking had friends at Court, and won the day. Bully for Day ami Martin ! Advance New Zealand ! I lour, sugar, and native licenses to the front 1 Put your money on one of the three to win, or the dark horse for a place, and you cannot loose. I like hot water, but why should I be compelled to pay IGa for crossing a ferry when I ought only to pay lour to get to the baths. Paying four times as much aa one ought to, is inclined to make one blaspheme and say- ho will never go to the lakes again, and that ho will also tell other people that a trip to Obinem'utu is bordering on the expensive, and that there is something like extortion with so-called “guides” participating In the spoil of the unwary traveller. The Maoris used at one time to put up fences and things to keep strangers from intruding on their lands. There are no strong fortifications now on the way to Kotomahana, &e., but (lie charges and general want of anything in the shape of comfort wall act, more effectually to deter the oakeha from viewing the seething cauldrons and bubbling mud holes than all the “aukatis” the natives could think of. If I was a Governor, or Civil Commissioner, or something, I would speedily put a stop to this sort of thing. I don’t want to be a Governor, and thanti God X am not a Civil Commissioner. If I was a Commissioner, I could not possibly bo civil (goak). But joking apart, I would recommend any fellow who is not a fool, and has a few hundred pounds, to put up a hotel in a centra! position in the J-iuko district. He must be a man who is not anxious to make Ins fortune in a month by bleeding the “ Innocents Abroad,” - Suppose you and Igo in fora “pub,” old “ Buster.” Let us advert ise in the “ organ,” sell good liquor, and there is money to be made (you bet) in an undertaking of toe sort, conducted with enterprise and honesty. Happy thought! Exhibit the latter virtue as a curiosity, and you make money by showing it. Diogenes speaks now. Let him take his lantern, retire to his tub, and give way to Mknxeeus.