MR ROLLESTON’S REFLECTIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2489, 13 April 1893, Page 3

MR ROLLESTON’S REFLECTIONS.

The following amusing skit is taken from the N.Z. Graphic ; The following memoranda were forwarded mo from Lyttelton, where they were picked up in the saloon of the s.s. Hauroto, which left Wellington for the South on the eleventh insta.ut. They were enclosed in a sn\all pocket edition of Virgil in the original tongue, interspersed here and there with classical •quotations, notes and references at present omitted. ‘ March fith : *• anrum et triplex aes ,” I have set sail on the unknown and tempestuous ocean. The meeting will be held in an hour and everything is in readiness to de nolish the Government. Rains have improved the face of the country, which is covered with emerald verdure, Hope it has been raining at Temuka. 11 p.m. ; Splendid meeting. People of Auckland certainly with me throughout speech. It was wise of the chairman not to put the resolution , Immediate success as Horace observed Is not so satisfactory as gradual attainment. Magnificent country avoaud city. Grass grows in thq Iforfli nearly as high as at Temuka. March 7th : Wonder what the real effort of ■my speech was. Chairman was afraid to put the resolution to the test '{ Government don’t appear uneasy or at all shaken. Grass I observe does not grow quite so luxuriantly here as at Temuka. March Bth: Wellington Post says my Auckland speech gave' the Opposition away and blames me for not demolishing the Government. How can I make bricks to heave at the Government without straw ? Isn’t it the duty of the Government to provide straw for. the Opposition ? They wont give us the straw, although grass grows everywhere in Hew Zealand almost as tall as at Temuka. March 10th ; People continue tc> tell me I ought to have demolished tfie Government. What on earth can anyone do with the Government !■ Reeves is too Itttlo, Seddou is, too. big, and BaUanoo, poor fellow, is not in good health ;• while my yiyws as to laud laws are quite as liberal as MacKeuzie’s, Certainly the Government ought to bo turned out, but, in any case, things eau’t go very far wrong while the Avon flows through Canterbury and the grass grows gmuh. kt Temuka. March 11th; the Government lives nr Conservatism is dying Qy-prywherq, It is dying at hoigO; it' 4B dying in all the colonies, most of wlffch are following the Liberal laws of the present Administration, Up north Conservatism is death In the south it is dead and buried, The grass waves over

it even Teirmka. March 12th : Cinoinnatua aid the best he could for his , country jiiicl returned to plough in a truly contented frame of mind. The muddy Tiber rolled ou to the sea all tlie same, no matter who governed the K omans in those days. It c< \ivtiuued its ph cid course unaffected by Government for thousands of and it is rippling on at this moment just as ever. It is certainly the fact that New Zealand is prosperous and contented. But what has Government got to do with such a satisfactory state of affairs ? Nothing whatever. How small is that which human hearts endure That hyjjoim kings or laws can cause or cure I Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or lind. At all events I will soon see that Avon once more flowing ou-Ward (onward) to the sea just as usual. It does the same whatever Government is in power, and the willows on its banks weep for Radicals and Tories alike, night and day. How-

ever, lam not going to veep. The co untry is prosperous. .Anyhow, the Canterbury Plains never looked better, and grass grows eighteen inches high and beautifully green in that dearest spot on earth—Temuka ! ! ”