The Evening Star MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2407, 19 December 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870.

On this tiresome world ! how it changes ! How wise men do grow ! The Solon of the Tuapcka paper says our one and two syllable leader of Friday is a disgrace to the Press, He stuck us up in the street, and said so. Our dear old Saxon out of date 1 No chance of that leader having a place in the Tuapcka Thne*. What a blow to our hopes.! But wc do not blench. We will re-write it for the sole purpose of suiting the classic taste of the Arcadian swains of Lawrence, and then no doebt it will grace our contemporary’s columns. So here it is in a new dress.

We were discoursing with a literary critic about recent improvements and facilities in locomotion afforded by the *' iron horse ” being attached to processions of vehicles on railroads, and of arrangements being entered into by the Central Government for constructing certain parallel linear ferruginous viaducts in Otago, as well as some magnificent reservoirs to collect, and distribute, by moans of aqueducts, that condensed aqueous vapor so essential to the successful prosecution of disembowelling precious metalliferous particle* from their gloomy matrices. Ho intimated his apprehensiveness that the incidence of taxation would be too ponderous to bo sustained by the popula-

tiou engaged in diurnal-sustenance-obtaining operations ; and that consequently there could be no superfluity of opulence result from such gigantic undertakings. We desiderate that those who have arrived at maturity, no matter whether masculine or feminine, shall have an unerring formula by which to distinguish accuracy of ratiocination from aberration from rectitude in the process of investigation ; and solicit attention to the following incontrovertible considerations. It is a monstrous misapprehension for an individual to conceive that there is any unthriftness in accumulating water to separate, by perturbation and filtration, auriferous metal from alluvium. Equitableness would intimate that remunerating Mistress Suns for purifying Mistress Gamp’s bedraggled and dnstbeladen habiliments by ablution, was as certainly a deduction from domestic resources, as an assessment imposed by the Government for fabricating reservoirs. And excavators of auriferous mullock would as certainly purchase the hydrous liquid as Mistress Gamp pays for the baptism of her wardrobe by Mistress Suds. But the systematic edification of reservoirs conduces to increasing thesustentational revenueof the Province, instead of abstracting from it, as is the result of giving remuneration for purification of apparel by lavation. When treasure is withdrawn from the domestic exchequer in payment for Mistress Suds's baptismal operations, although it contributes to the necessities of the ulterior named lady’s inhabited family edifice, it is not replaced to Mistress Gamp, and Mister Gamp has to agonise with surrounding circumstances to replenish the diurnal eftlux from the treasury. Mistress Gamp’s object is to exhibit symmetry, elegance, and immaculateness in her adornments, so that people may be ravished in delectation at the manifestation of her perfections as she perambulates the City. But aqueous reservoirs are of Provincial utility. Extensive areas of auriferous drift, by their instrumentality, ean be made available for the sustentation of numberless large families. The patriarch purchases the liquid element, and by successful application of it obtains a supply of specie with which to liquidate the current expenses of his establishment, to provide habiliments for the sharer in his connubial felicity and their juvenile descendants, to contribute to their acquisition of educational advantages, and to emulate the hereditary possessors of England’s broad domains in the extent of their landed property, in the profusion of their expenditure, and in their hospitality. When professors of geography dilate I upon countries of boundless wealthi- | ness, they indicate the numerous millionaires and persons in comfortable circumstances who inhabit them. An individual may be affluent without having in his pocket the means of purchasing a goblet of malt liquor for three denarii at the Shamrock. He may be the fortunate possessor of countless nuggetorial auriferous fragments, which, without the value-war-ranting image of Her Most Gracious Majesty, are not available for monetary purposes. But with that attesting stamp no luxury exists beyond attainment, The most elegant mansion and furniture, the most recherche viands, wines, and cordials, the most skilful culinary artists, are at command. He may surround himself with amicable associates, confer upon them in profuseness epicurean enjoyments, and contribute to the relief of the necessities of the distressed. But if in consequence of the factiousness .of Mr Keid, and those who unreasoningly place themselves in subjection to his mandates, no reservoirs are allowed to be constructed, the aboriginal inhabitants might as well have retained possession of the Province, the benefits of the boundless resources of which are denied to the energy of colonists from Great Britain. It was shallow finesse in Mr Keid to commit himself to the assertion that he was anxious that Provincial utilitarian operations should be initiated. He and those whose volitions are subjected to his direction, in the same way that an animal directs the motions of his caudal appendage, recognised unmistakably that the unrevealed momentum in their curriculum of procedure was that they should reduce Mr Mac ANDREW to popular disfavor, in order that the object of their ephemeral idolatry might be' exalted to the Superi-utondcucy. It is not travelling beyond the boundaries of the record to predicate that this factious phalanx in their obstructiveness were virulently animated by vindictive animosity to the Colonial Treasurer, for more than ono unreservedly confessed in the Provincial Council to this irrational Too statesmanlike personally to give uaci. ? ance to such imbecile feminine senility, Mr Eeid ostentatiously paraded his majority in the Provincial Council in embarrassing the wishes of the Superintendent, who coincides in the progressive proclivities of the Colonial Treasurer. Extraordinarily, manifesto-

tions of hallucinations in the popular tendencies have been construed into approbation of restraining the disposal of unappropriated Coronal territory for two annual tellurian revolutions round the central orb of our system. And insidious endeavors have been resorted to to flatter the self-importance of the electoral corpuscules, by enunciating the sophism that the General Govern-

ment had exceeded their constitutional privileges by audaciously passing enactments without subjecting them to the e.npervncntnm cruets of a general election. But artisans and laborers recognise the situation, and anathematise its hypocrisy. The submissive articulate of Mr Reid’s cauda are—Messrs J. W.

Thomson (of the Clutha primus), Henderson, Moselv, Shepherd, J. L. Gillies, Hay, J. C. Brown, Hutcheson, and the majority who endorsed his factiousness by their sycophantic obsequiousness or tbeir prosternating utterances. One at least of these obstructionarlans declaimed eloquently in demonstration of.one collimation, but terminated by recording his vote in favor of another. By the construction of railways and goldfields reservoirs, profitable employment would be provided for an unimaginable multitude of immigrants, and abundance would be secured to the classic Arcadians themselves. The misrepresentations therefore that have been so nauseously and pompously enunciated, have been purposely contrived and systematically persevered in, in anticipation of the scintillating illumination of Mr Reid’s dynasty. Verbum sap. Perhaps this specimen of what we can do in the way of translation may lead some other friend to ask a like feat in Scotch or other tongufts. If Latin is wanted, wo will seek the help of a fourth form boy at the High School—but, as a favor, do not press for Chine--e, for lie have not type for it. For Saxon see Friday’s Star.