IN DREAM LAND.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 10, 13 September 1901, Page 3

IN DREAM LAND.

[Bv Scrutator.] In Sleep, wjien Fancy is let loose to play, Our Dreams repeat the wishes oi the Day. Addison, he of the Spectator, who flourished last century, is the author of the lines printed above, if my memory seives me right. I quote the couplet, because the sentiments therein expressed have a special bearing upon what I am going to speak about just now. There are dreams and dreams, as mv readers know ; the one I had the other night, was not begotten of cheese, which the late lamented Tom Hood declares will “ lie heavy on the breast.” It came unbidden, like the unwelcome guest, who sits at your table and parpartakes of your hospitality, without saving “By your leave.” and will nor. take a polite limit that his abstn e isj

to be desired, I passed into Dreamland at or near* the witching hour of midnight and I will tell you what I saw. The Borough of Motueka was thickly populated, brilliant street lamps, like stars in the firnament shed their effulgent rays upon the wayfaring man whose business or pleasure called him homewards(for family devotions probably) about eleven of the clock ; the footpaths and streets were properly and scientifically macadamised; the Stone Crusher was revered and garlanded daily with floral offerings from a grateful and appreciative community; the vehicles travelling through Its crowded streets after nightfall were properly lit ; bad drainage was a thing of the past; the Councillors were as brothers, each dividing with his comrade in municipal administration the honors so lavishly bestowed upon them by the citizens ; a palatial railway station stood on the section next Motueka Star Office, where a crowd had assembled to witness the arrival of the daily express train from Collingwood and hear the busy guards call out “change here for Pokororo;” the staff of the local post office, largely augmented, t died day and night to overtake the ever increasing woik and— universal peace, amicability, good fellowship amongst those who “buy and sell and get gain.” Delightful kinemetograpli pictures, assuredly, but upon being rudely awakened by mv better half when the s'un was high in the heavens I was dismayed to find it all a dream, a phantom < f the brain not worth a nip for commercial purposes ; just a plain, common, ordinary dream, possibly suggestive to those who read whilst they run.