MOUNT BENGER.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2784, 19 January 1872, Page 3

MOUNT BENGER.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) I think from our intermittent correspondent would be a more appropriate heading, thanks to the admired irregularity of my contributions to your “valuable, &c., &c.” This time I have a good excuse, viz., the intense melancholy arising from the so-called holiday season. Christmas and New Year in New Zealand produce in my mind most cut throat sensation-, and necessitate the careful locking up of all razors, pocketknives, and other instruments of lethal offence. I object to getting drunk, owing to the horrors of the recovery, I can’t get excited over scrub races, nor can I derive the least enjoyment from splendid balls, where the proportioa is something like twenty men to one woman. So lam driven to moping in a corner over old times, until a species of temporary insanity clouds my noble intellect and deprives your readers of their usual dose of wit and wisdom. So much for the personal pronoun. If I get much more egotistic I shall sink low enough to be an M.H. R. for a goldfields constituency—the deepest depth of degradation yet attained by human ingenuity. By the way, the 50,000 acre block agitation has had a spasmodic revival, and on Thursday, 11th inst., placards were posted announcing the intention of the Board to hear objections to the sale on the 15th inst. Telegrams passed to and fro by the dogep, cur worthy ” member being evidently desirous of doffing a portion of his mantle of infamy. Of course, the whole affair is denounced as “a plant” on the part of the Keidites, and I must confess I am inclined to agree with those who say so. The distinfuished author of the celebrated telegram to Ir Bradshaw, who combines the use of the ellwand with the awful sword of Themis, has been despatched to represent the people of Mount Benger : said people pqnslsting'bf gome haif-qozcn business s 'men at the Teviot. Thb fact is, everyone hereabouts looks upon the sale as an accomplished fact; and while “ keeping it in ” for the perpetrators of so villainous a proceeding, consider it more judicious to put up with the first loss, than to allow Mr Clarke an opportunity of ruining the Province by endless litigation, I suppose I must say about the Cbn'tmas festivities. The most brilliant affair was the opening of Nicholson's npw hotel, which was a great success. The building is worthy of mention, being a grpat advance on the ordinary rim of wayside ipns, ant) equal tq any house in Dunedin. Mr Cqbeldidk, the buililer and architect, deserves praise.