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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 156, 2 July 1881, Page 4

I MB. BP.UIGHTS PASADISE — ME, DICK'a ADVICE . Ma Speight: I will tell you about a district I have been in myself — -Ireland where I came from. If it were possible ! to conceive a perfect system of happiSBEB existing in a community, it exists there. I mem Messrs Richardson's piece, in the Ncr:h of IrelenJ, Thousands of person* reside in that district; there are no public-houses, do poorhouses, to pcorraJe, Bnd no policeman. So we do not want to go to America for ac example. We have a piain people iuch as exist in the North of Ireland, with a good deal of that genuine Scotch blood in them which leads them sometimes to think out and to feel for themielves that which is for their own personal benefit, doing what I have been referring to. They find that employment is more constant; they find that wages are more sure; the district is a happy and contented one, because the liquor traffic is banished from it. Mr Dick: The honorable member for Auckland City East takes me to task on one or two points. In the first place he tells ub of some town in Ireland, which was a happy valley cvi- ' dently, an Eden without the serpent, wbere every one was happy ftn<j pros perocß because there was no driok sold. The honorable gentlemen tells us he came from that place. lam astonished, if it was such a perfect place, that Mr Speight : I did nit say I came fiom there, but that I hod been there. Mr Dick: Well, my honorable friend onght to have stayed there. To have left a plnee so pesceful and happy to come to this country and to enter this arena of strife seem* to have been a bad choice, aod f er'aeps the best thing he could do would be to go back again.