MOUNT BENGER.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2691, 2 October 1871, Page 3

MOUNT BENGER.

('FROM (ini OWN’ COURKsrONDF.NT.) A wet day. Nothing to do and nothing to read, forces me to write as the only available means of killing time. Tis true tin-iv : s absolutely nothing to write about except the land (jue.stion of which I am heartily sick, and the weather, which is too disgusting to bo lightly treated of. So mutable and variable is tins infernal climate of ours, that I strongly suspect the local clerk of the weather helot.gs to the weaker sex ; such whimsical alterations between sunshine aed shower a c wonderfully cliaraeteiistie of the feminine nature. l)o you know anything about social ethics? I liavf; long thought an apostle of reform in this respect has greatly been needed for Otago. As a rule, we are as sanguinary a lot of roughs as ever ignored the courtesies which make society agreeable and relining 1 don’t expect any very startling reforms all at once ; but really, sir, do you not thiul; we might by a gigantic effort ovxu'imvgc the habit of swallowing knives gfc u,',oai times, ’Tis a fearful sigh *• to rgc. sofue young (hms.d. wlmsc lips Mv.wlit ip.em foymed for nought but she,veiling all manner of so'ids into a (jistended mouth witli a trenchantlooking blade —yet, alas ! the deed is an every-day occurrence. Ramo Bamee made a fortune by somewhat similar feats, hut I do not think his example should be followed. After all, as a mere matter of convenience, the fork is the preferable instrument. Not to attempt too much at once, I shall hi-ld over other atrocities until c.nnai ;.■■>.(. drives me to pen j'on an epistle. The meaning of the ‘•■grand old name of gentleman •’ is a, matter of dispute. The latest definition 1 pi'- H l 'd up at a recent ball in ony ipetropuUs, A gentleman —that is a “party ’’—was patrolling ttie “ iiure” in dignified state, Of him, in my hearing, a sprightly maiden, burning perchance with lijHvfir injuria form"’, remarked, “ Be jahers! an’ just hike at ouid i’Tarrosun marchin’ about like a jintb map, an’ him only an Irishman afthor all. 1 ’ Not being altogether innocent of Milesian blood, I must refuse to endorse the sarcasm. 1 am informed 'that a new sect, styling themselves “ ('tod’s people,” has been invented near Mount Banger, /V-ire/’ if things progress much further every man jack of us ■will be like tho Macnab at the Flood, and “sail a boat of his own.”