A FEW WORDS FROM THE CLOUDS.
We up above can see and not be seen, can talk, and not be heard, except when we thunder, and can therefore take an important view of all the small things vou are doing down below’. We think the bother you are making about your Provinces in little New Zealand a very small matter indeed, and we think that you are merely playing at Parliaments and Governments, and so forth; but as little matters please little minds, it is very innocent, only that, perhaps, it is nice to see what sort of playthings even children amuse themselves with. You hove a Governor, it is true, but he, good m u, s -ems to have little else to do than to receive his pay, and spend it. We alone take a view of the world as a whole, and, therefore, merely look upon you New Zealanders as specks on the horizon; while we are writing, we are giving out our opinions to India, China, England. Russia, &c., &c., as they seem also to require a little plain speaking. While we are writing, a cloud has passed between us ; but more, anon, when it has cleared away. —(Communicated.)
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 208, 26 September 1874, Page 2
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202A FEW WORDS FROM THE CLOUDS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 208, 26 September 1874, Page 2
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