TOKOMAIRIRO.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 3 October 1868, Page 3

TOKOMAIRIRO.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Provincialism — the curse of the colony — formed the subject of nearly a two-hour lecture, delivered by Mr. J. GL S. Grant. He reviewed, seriatim, the salient points of parralellism between the last session of the Provincial Council and the present queer proceedings of the New Zealanu Parliament, and forcibly proved the absolute necessity of abolishing the present system of. multifarious and extravagant Government, sapping the vitals of these Islands and Provinces. The policy of the Fox and Stafford parties respecting New Zealand, he characterised as embodied in the homely aphorism — " Which of us shall be cock of the dunghill." He lashed, with satirical weapons, the pseudo representatives who violated all their pledges, and brought the trade of politics to the condition of th*t of Yankee land. The speeches of the Fox Party in the want of confidence motions, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, were simply regarded by the lecturer in the light of vox et preterea nihil — pure gas — the explosive exhalations of time-serving place : hunting political renegades. He recommended, in biting language, the project of getting up another senseless demonstration in honor of the railway envoy, the success of the salmon ova experiments, and in appreciation of the labors of the compilers of the Book on Otago — the land of promise, flowing with milk and honey for the chosen seed of official drones . The manufacture of rope, cloth, sugar, silk, &c, rolled under review, and «xcited the intensest bursts of laughter, mixed with genuine indignation at the base tactics of the would-be founders of Otago Universities, Corn Exchanges/ Museums, and Municipalities, all curiously muddled together under the roof of the Dunedin " Temple of Beasts" — so styled by that idolator of the Yogel dynaflty^ to^ wit, Mr. Main.

As the lecturer occupied so much time, and, embraced so many important topics,I cannot so much as indicate -the different heads under discussion. The audienco ! Was numerous, and the proceedings, which abounded with sallies of side-splitting laughter — laughter loud and deep, at the expense of the miserable mountebanks and political quacks that live and promise tp 'regenerate the rotten state of the colony by their nostmms and nauseous pill,' siiga?ed over, with dolusivo anticipations otn, golden harvest, in future by blending our.^vJQiys with bridges, intorsecting, our hills" with, railways, covering the seas with flecK built of New Zealand timber *. at' Porjb Oh\l me rs, and stocking the rivers-with fish a\Uhe, deserts with, beasts* Penniless onWants wero the* stock phrases of our m&mc politicians, who were &i for nothing hhhia world but i members of obngreas. \