LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 266, 10 April 1874, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(I- I'oiii u.ir otvi) coi respondent.) After a storm _potips a enlm, it is said and we hu.ve n'au here uu\v- —aiier the"«. public u i;pi±>. qu mil on the sale of - the runs, the threatened revolution on jie-~ .Ci.'Uut ot the re„io. a. ti ilni Anow Lha—trict Warden and R.M., ete.. ete. - .We are now reduceu to reel gracelui a tee--,' total lecture. Only think-of p murine ciM water on a people heated by events like,those 1 auvo juai, enumerated. Kow ~ lecturer's kind ""manner warmed'me towards him, for he s'poke of good people and happy circumstances, and of course he looked very thin —l—suppose through cold water—-tbafcsome friends would have-> :-h outed for him;-:ibut the poor fellow iiad ~- r laiVOii coid v» aier, and " did not tout ii it, thank you;" so our merciful intentions" were frustrated, and he lingers ' on miraculously, like poor Miss Uoss, the- 1 - Tdje i Now- Pdon't-lilie but there is a ' telegiam copied in ia&i week's ' Observer' , ' —i«i- >j Vson to SUppOSe'r hat),one; wanes to sell out ana ir v his luck*oll the • Palmer. It may be all a hoax, but, if so, it is a coarse one. The telegram runs as - yr 'follows':—" If' s you can" get Olarke to re- - have airanged ton-psurd, .. stand. r G-ood for distrir*. (>S ; mid) £TP " If it , ■* Ts real whv Ji P timing hp Pitner iughly lt patriotic for l lhe, ,weliare_ ox Wakaiip, or* .he musL be terribly presumptuous.on his---personal influence. " - I congratulate your district on being made the nead, quarters of the .Otago*' Mining 7 Association Central Exectivei, airid I beg to be' allowed to congratulate that.'- - ■bndy.jon their -improved, cnusritnfion. I s, allude, to' rhe ,firiv.ugeinent which makes - each Secretary ui locai associations--an honorary member of Committee, .and 1/ trust the worthy President- will instruct them in his wishes so as'to create a' closer 1 unity of the whole. 1 wish move- - ments every success: more especially-, your Joint Stock Banking and Gold ing miners v; afford to declare their independence, there"* r ~ i is not much hopeoi ihal commodity exis.*i ing lo any great extent amongst any other- " class. So I say. Gv <>u and prus per. The great topic of couwi-aaciou here is the Painter i-usii. Pestilence, iauiine, the-' * hostile savages, and an inhospitable coun- ~ try burnt to charcoal by a tropical sun— ~ are all. set in insignificance by the glittering hopes of . shining, gold. : In rain Governments try to stem the tide of rushing manhpod, byiioiumg up the feiid Hag orv tear. A his! tis forgotten bv powers, that- Lbese diggers they sei-k to- ■ frighten by tear are the same elass ol men who have just rac:-d and won 'hat far more dreadful couniry, Ash an tee ; and that without much hope of any individual reward,-beyondthafcbauble—honor! - Hut--1 will not preach homilies. I only call the attention of your Mining Association 'leaders, to the superiority oi' s the -civilisation which is 'b-'injrestahljslva 'y the noble armies of hard- working men, which-have been led on by the discovery - of gold for the last twenty-five yea-r, r«v anything that has ever been l\y force of arms.

An Towa editor wrote :—'• During the past, week we have been visiting the So- ' - : Inns of the country;" and his constant subscribers think that is a funny way t«x .spell " saloons." ' * A Victorian squatter, Mr. Donald 5 meron, has tound journalism anything but a paying speculation. He took shares in the ' Town and Country Journal,' and the ' Evening Express/ and in the course of a -. few months lost £13.000 by tht vntu'-e. A private telegram' from Auckland informs an exchange that the notorious Sullivan"still remains in this place in char..eof Sergeant W-.itS'.n FTe compares himself to the Son of Man. as he cannot find a resting place of freedom whereon to lay his head, tie has most urgently requested to be sent back to Dunedin gaol v there to end the remainder ot his days , A scientist has discovered an insect that will.destroy the potato bug. . It bores into thepotatato to lie -in- wait for the. destroyer of that .edible,. ,and while it is - waiting the - farmer* T* fondly hope to discover.-another bug -.that will destroy the. bug that uestroys the- potato bug. " ' _ " Come, come,' Willy, do take your ' ,' medicine now, like a little man: . Whea-' •J; have' medicine to- take I don't-like it any "- 1 "ihdre T than?fypu.jdc?,fibut I make up* my -'■' ! I do." ■„ ";I'ni^ Xt | fust like, you, Fanny," responded •"WiUyVci"; "only 1 make. up.my mind jiojLtQ .Jakft. it.'r" ! and I, don't" ~• - "■"