HE IS FOOLING THEE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 227, 8 September 1875, Page 2

HE IS FOOLING THEE.

TO THE EDIXOn OP THE ' EVENING MAIL.' Sir— l was p'eased. on reading your issue of Monday Inst, to find you advocating so earnestly the necessity of extending the railway to Poxhill proper at the one end and the port at the other, lor it appears that our only hope of gaining this d'sideratum lies in the local press taking the matt<r up and bringing it before the public and the Government. Our members, from Mr Curtis down to Mr Gibbs, Beeni to be tongue-tied, and willing to accept any, even the most ridiculous, excuse that can be offered by Ministers for not proceeding with thi« requisite work. I seo that Mr I uokie aaked the other dny whether the line w*s to be curried on to the wharf, and waa told that there waa no necessity for it, as the distance w»a so short, and the line from the town to the Port would be so little used. Thereupon ha sat down quietly, humbly, and— like a member for Nelson. Perhaps, sir, you may have observed that the on'y way in which our representatives ever do distinguish themselves is by asking questions, and eliciting unfavorable answers. Probably they like being ''jumped upon." for certainly they court it in every possible way, and, having undergone the operation, which most mm possessed of any spirit would kick aeainst end resent, they placidly fold their hands, make up their minds that " Allah " so ordains it, and let their coostitueutß and their interests po to the (flli up the blank, if you please, wiih an unparliamentary word). But we don't want to go there iuss yer; tolet the people record the protest that should have been entered by their lamb-like representatives. They could not even wheeze out a feeble " baa " when Mr Kichardson flaunted in their faces his ignorance of the real tacts of the cage, but silently and immoveably they retained their 3eats, and permitted him unanswered to utter his absurdities, and to have them pub lhhed in Hansard wi hout comment. I remember, when a youngster, reading the Comic Latin Grammar, wherein an attempt waa made to impress upon the minds of youthful learners, by means of rhyme, the terminations of the gerunds, thus : — When Dido found that iEaeas did not come, She wept in silence, and was Di— do dum! Possibly our representatives aspire to beiog ° gerunds," which have, as the serious Latin Grammar tells as, '■ an active signification," and, so far as being dumb goes, they have achieved their end, still I am rather inclined to regard them as representing that one of the •" supines," eadmg in '«u," which "has for the most part " {vide the same authority) " a passive signification." Curtis, Luckie. Richmond, O'Conor, Parker, Shephard, Gttbs,— not one of them seems to hare a kick left in him when it is a member of the Government to whose arrant nonsense he, in the interests of bis constituents, is called upon to reply. I am, &c, " T*ke Cabs, Bbware."