Extravagance

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 74, 3 June 1884, Page 3

Extravagance

Far be it from us r to seek to limit; unduly the pleasures' of ' the public ;j batteither people are not so badly ojffi as : the cry of stagnation wouW fnaply,; or they are 'improperly induliiing;''iplukurions expenditure which punishes ttieir butchers, bakeW and grocers. In the matter of races alone,' it is not Satisfactory ; t«» findthat nearly every j -little to'wnsbio TPust l^ave its race- ' cburie. its'" jockey cliiH, 'and its. ever' jecurnnfc race meeiiinjr, B p«n)?, ' *u»n-j irier and autumn; "with' thei- bettings, •their" bookmakers, 1 j "and thtur riunVeroufl ' Weep^ j f 'And the < inducement^ to !<ll'nes, dissatisfaction , 'atfd 'extravagance which; these ever- . recurrinjr gathering all-over the : colony almost cohtintjaliy offer," to say nothing ot' the ! spirit ' of gamblin<r which is thus fostered in old and yowfr, Undoubtedly /we :ar a too luxurious; and' the indulgence in such luxury even in times of 'plenty is a social error, and in times of commercial depression and alleged want of work and money is worse than \ anierrdr. 'Pedpl© /must learn to cut their coat according to their 1 cloth ; they must ; savethei)r mquey arid limit theirUuxiirieal Tbe^e sensible and ; Bhre ) wd feaiarkV arX'made by the PWt'anrf ii is : to be hoped 1 that • they wmbeWkood fruit: 7 ! hey are peculiW^kpp MaW^td'«ha i bo?ust. Oaft T :