AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT.
“ Asmodeus ” in the “ N.Z. Mail ” Bays : There may or may or not be a swamp on the Waimate Plains, but there is unquestionably a scamp there. Te Whiti may bo a prophet himself, but he cannot save other people from loss. He can make bis devoted followers believe in the millenium, supernatural agency, and things of that ilk, but he cannot instil into them a correct creed of meum et tuum. It is related to me that an officer of Constabulary, camped a short distance from the local Mecca, missing the morning bath of civilisation was constrained to develop the natural resources of the place, and went a short way from camp to ablute himself in a pond. But, alas! on emerging he found the habiliments he had left among the flax had taken wing and flown, so that, poor fellow, he was obliged to walk three-qnarters of a mile on a bracing morning in precisely the same extent of wardrobe as Adam owned in the pre-figleaf epoch, an achievement for which the sympathetic remarks of the whole camp on his appearing among them in this pristine state was a recompense only made sufficient by his learning next day that an athletic Maori was creating a sensation among the ladies of Parihaka by strutting about in a gorgeous uniform, —Sic gloria, etc.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 3
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225AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 3
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