CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 51, 19 June 1862, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the TFanilce's 'Rag Times. Sir. — The Napier boys i r > fond of joking, as witness their advertisements about feasts for sweeps, treats on hills. &c.. dm., which are as much a mystery to the uninitiated as the Greek alphabet is to a Yorkshire “ bunchclot”* ; but there is a danger of their carrying their mirth too far, till we country people get in so much of a maze that we don’t know the real article from the counterfeit. Of this kind an example appears in the Times of the sth instant, where an advertisement appears whmh micfht he supposed at first sigh* to be a, “ Government notice” minus the signature of the official by whom it was issued, but on closer examination it appears to be only another specimen of the “ practical joking” of Nanier ; (I allude to an advertisement purporting to he a Government notice threatening the pains and penalties of the law op any one daring to lease - the Ahuriri plains,! for no one can imagine that the Civil Commissioner would dare to “ prosecute any one for breaking the Land Purchase Ordinance,” seeing they would only be copying the example set by his high mightiness’s seffi. and for which “ practical respect” for the law he has been promoted to his present office and emoluments. Teasing Maori, land has obtained the (practical) an-p-oval and sanction of the Government of the colony, so they cannot now set about checking it, as their first duty would in that case be to instruct their chief officer to prosecute himself as an examine to the wrong-doers, a step they are not likely to take at present. Enough at present from Your obedient servant. Ahuriri. -Tune. 1862. Tutua. * "Vernacular for an agricultural laborer.