ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 58, 17 February 1843, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealand Colonist . Poor “ Colonist !” Strike your colors; down with your top-gallant masts ; take in all sail; for it is of no use contending

auylonger with.your accomplished and gifted contemporary. If you think yourself proof against the effects of such batteries as the three and a half mortal columns of leaden matter in yesterday's Gazette, you have more vanity and confidence in yourself than we would have given yoU credit for, except that your known modesty is notorious. It is painful to meet and converse with ignorant people; and, strange to say, scores of them were about, yesterday,enquiring of one another (innocent creatures!) as to the meaning of your learned parliamentary opponent, in his most lucid and able dissertation. The great majority were of opinion, that this gem of the press gang did not not know what he meant himself; and one (bold fellow) proposed a reward of five pounds, to be paid to any one, who would unriddle the riddle ; but I, knowing what five pounds are in this Settlement, and how many would greedily snap at such a prize, induced him to abate it to five pence, which will be paid at sunrise any morning, after proof, at the bar of the Aurora, Mr. Rowland Davis’s ; and if the gentleman himself will come forward and declare his meaning, he will be considered a fair competitor for this principal money, in the good coin of the Imperial Kingdom. By the way, Colonist, I am afraid you are not learned enough; you are even most sparing of your Latin, and your trite motto is unnoticed; You must brush up, if you are to survive; your leading articles are very tame and jejune. Had I not taken in the Gazette, I should have lost the masterly illustration of the chicken case, Wakefield versus Smith, repeated day after day, accompanied by beautiful letters. By the way, these Wakefields are always getting into our wake. Again, why have you not a dramatis personce ? You can hardly believe the grand effect, by shewing the dignity and elegance of your taste, and your extensive reading. Why should the columns of the Gazette be alone garnished with “ Madam Flirt,” “ Capt. Macheath,” “ Lucy,” u SylvesterDaggerwood,” and” Dr. Evans,” “ Mrs. Glass and her Hare,” to say nothing of that poor unfortunate-deficient lady, ” Mrs. Bottom/m,” “ Acres,” ” Portia,*’ besides ” Mr. Strang,” query Strange, clerk of the Piece, and ” Mr. Harmon,” who every one knows belongs to the Jews. Eiveunt omnes, and with others, in the meantime, 1 say,

Goon Bye

(To the Editor of the New Zealand Colonist.) Sir, —Will you oblige me by publishing in your ; paper the following correspondence, which occurred in consequence of my having been ordered from a Public Billiard room, and no reaspn assigned, after repeated , applications. As it may warn those who do not happen < to be “ particular friends ” of Mr. Virtue’s how they may expect to be treated by that worthy. I am, Sir, Your’s truly, Harold Maclkod. Thursday, February 16, 1843.