QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 142, 27 October 1870, Page 6

QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.

(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.) Sib — It is very wonderful how pungent and sententious were the sayings and observations of the ancients. All, or most of the pithy sayings and proverbs, especially those that contain multum in parvo, come down to us enshrined in the hoar of venerable antiquity ; but, nevertheless, they are applicable to us, and to all time, and it is a sign of their universality that they refer to corporate bodies as well as to the units which compose the human family. Now, Sir, if we apply fche above test to the Corporation of Lawrence, we can only come to the conclusion that they have commenced the downward journey — entered upon the facilis decensus avernus, which leadeth to the Stygian shades. Can nothing be done to stop the fearful descent ? Another Book sayeth that a house divided against itself cannot stand. With all these signs of decay, may we not in truth exclaim, " yet a little while and the end draweth nigh," Ichabod. — I am, &c, Stat in Umbra..

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