Fire Water and the Australian Blacks.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 60, 10 August 1885, Page 4

Fire Water and the Australian Blacks.

The Sydn ey Bulletin says : — Slowly, bnt kuvelvj v ßritish cifili^ation ;js floihg TtS'uViial philanthr<»p?c work up *N"oi;tiij and-'tho time is evidently clomg -at bvind; when *' that furred tongue, bad-tasting mouth, and miserable foo!---inof'V.will be as common amongst out*. ' black • buulders as they *now are ?amongst our distiriguishcd senatpis, nahd vale buttoners, «uil race rtepoi tjtrs.'. At the same time,' however it is con-, soling- to -note tliat ©ur unbleached afster is doing her lerel bast, by kindly carei wholesome. Jid vice, and th« accasional planting- of . bottles up hollow Jogs, to stem Uie fatal efforts of ! he flooring bowl. -The battle, of course, . is hard, njid our h«a> tJairly Itleeds at the Palmer River mission irv's sad stoiy of finding a/ miserable- apoloify | for a noble .savage madilened withand doing'the can-can m ihe\ costume of the fork radish period, oh the bank of a creok, wliile,* crouehhd. behind a.few sheets of jKU*,k, a poor, emaciated lubra held her achjug brow ! with one hand,..a'.d gripbing 1 a thick ;wad4v with the other, exclaimed, '?' By;"h~l. . ; wait till that • pfeller gpjsjerp; T split 'im dam ' cobbprij. like it pumpkin." Another i touching- instance of womanly afieo ••' tion c'omcH from the Beaudesei t'race--vconrse, where a blacking bottle l<»rd ,of the soil, after having a good tinve \vith a quart-bottle behind one of the iwothfe.this loving spouse, after satis-

tying hei-splf tfcat the elixir^ was clean v gone, tried to get her. better and fuller half away back to camp. Long nnd biavely did tbe heroic wife tvg 1 at her limp and helpless load, but at last, utterly tired out, she had to let it drop, and then; as the thoughts of similar scenes amonusfc.her mom civi•lised neighbours came crowding into ■ -her" troubled soiil; she gazed sorrow— fully dfrfrma him Hjo had won her ,maideu heart, and sighed, " By Gripes, .-..Jimmy, yon "'gpttin' cobboan fool ; .l.y'm-by you get 'ira jvj. t as bad as. & r b" — -y whiU? man. ? '