"TALL" TALK.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4473, 7 May 1883, Page 2

"TALL" TALK.

A writer in the Sydney Echo, oF April 6th, give his opinion of New Zealand, its people, its patriots, and its Press, in the following modestly expressed paragraph; -—"It is peopled by an industrious, a* intelligent, law-abiding population ; and it has been governed by wise, prudent, incorruptible public men. The result of all these circumstancsisnotdiffioult to predict. Already there strikes on the tympanum of the prophetic ear, the sound of the footsteps of that marching phalanx whielfin the near future is going to precipitate_the country into a natron (to use the phrase of one:of its public men). The evidence* 1; of its future greatness are becoming morejuid rnorje conclusive ererj day, and I hope I I shall not be charged, with speaking in the language of exaggeration when I say that this, remarkable country, peopled by thrifty, energetic, intelligent colonists, ruled by able, patriotic, public men, influenced by a free and high«toaed'Preas, ,uo* surpassed for its commercial position, unrivalled in its natural beauties, rich in its varied treasures of wealth, must become rich iv all the truest aud mgSest'elemeutS of national greatness ? "and * when the proudest dynasties of to-day shall have crumbled to the dust; when the,vigorous ltfe'and splendid refinement' of this'nineteenth century shall givo place to a higher culture and a purer morality, tne student of history poring o»er Us pages will find there recorded m letters ofcVUviiig fire, how that, under the peerless glory of the Southern Cross, the muse of Hew Zealand spraug from its circumambient seas, like Minerva full panoplied from the brain of Jove, to listen to the bursting clarion of an exalted community, and to gaze with rapture on the sweeping chivalry of an ennobled nation." Just so, we rather thought that all the time, but we did not know, quite, how to express it.