A HOPELESS CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 144, 6 October 1876, Page 3

A HOPELESS CASE.

The Itockhamptott Afyat-* has also got its contributing "* Antolycos,"' and in a rucunb issue he tins discourses on the nutivea We hear occasionally a tot of rmtimontal twad< tie mouthed about the " poor blacks,." and the hardship® they llivva to endive at the Lands of their white oppressors, Tlwr.! a"u amongst us many o.i!U»ttters sac'. a.* l">>tfc'?nsdrvW iu " Uleak Souse/' The wife of the teacher of d:inc uf and deportment. who l.d't her (i!iild:'i n to run abor.t in rags white she tiimduottd tor the Christianizing of the inhabitant* of the South !jua Islands, is <do<?ely imitated by t!u:si> howlint lunat.es. who so phifartto'pically take up the cudgel's for lin?s> black vermin, while hundreds of ffiiites,. in a g!ori«>as state of wickedness and unbelief. are left! tot-ally nncarwd fur ia their rntdst. " An* I not a man nut a bei'fc'ier," with a rugger and a Ribfo, ij no doubt a very sensat.onat heading for a fci'.'.c • on slavery ' r but when it is applied tii oae of t le aborigtaas of t-iesj colonics, with a mangy pack of cues at his lucls, 1 for o w djny tue relationship £/* ft'#<•>•, and twuld its aooa claim kindred with an ape or gorilla, and for cleanliness the laatuniuud would certainty be preferable. Ituiwheroos,. devoid of the. slightest prinoiplos of gratitud-e, and tov faaines» and liltliinuss ansarpiused, the native of thb coiuibry is but one ru.umvu from the tower animals, find that remove is not at nil an advantageous one. Alt attempts at teaching them to become tsseful members o£ society have proved abortive, and there ij not the slightest doubt that they will continue us t iey re tilt rvtnx and disease I'iaiVe stamped thettn out altogether, anift ,jir extinction is a consummation ituvonfcfy to be wis! ted. 1 rentefnber a jiim I heard about the Governor's visit to the Murray Aboriginal Mission Station. Aftur inspecting the variotts buildings and during the ptins of the minister for the WHftmuration of the niggers, his Excellency naturally asked what progress the pastor had already made in his work of evanjolisation. The minister shook hts head. ! "Ha had not," he was sorry to say, " made many converts, but one old man at Clio camp, he believed, had thoroughly embraced salvation, and was as good! a i Christian as himself." The Governor, bsinsf naturally anxiotts to inspect the [inuligy, he was eafled ap. '* Jadcy," ; will tue minister, " I want yon to stng that beautiful hytitn that 1 taught yon the Dthur day. " What name yon gib it F' sill tlu; black Christian. Rather taken ibiiclt,. the minister replied, " Nothing, 1 ; mmt you to sing it to this gentleman.*' i Eyeing the Governor, and seeing no re- ; wit looming in the distance, Jaeky milled away with " D and Halle- j lujuli, yott gib it damper first time."