NOTES BY THE WAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 165, 6 April 1871, Page 5

NOTES BY THE WAT.

(B^ our Vagabond Reporter.)

Tf yon had known the locality in which I have spent 'fche last few days, the delightful climate and the facilities for correspondence, you would have spared yourself, and vicariously me, the slorm of abuse in not very select language with which the Idcliee (excellent word, having a smack of unintelligibleness about it,) of my usual weekly contribution was received at the "T. T." Office Editor log . " The brute's on the spree aga : n, I expect ! " Sub-editor : " Curse him ! what shall we fill up with?" Kditor : " We'll have to put in that asinine speech of Dean's at Switzers ; and I say, mushrooms are in ain't they? Well, kill a whole family at Tapanui say, and we can contradict it next week ! " I'll spare you this time and not divulge more secrets of the editorial sanctum on condition lam asked no niore questions bub 'allowed to

relate in my own good time tho why and wherefore, &c, itc (This is a good enel'iiiL,' of a paragraph, especially recommended when you are for an i'le>.) I shal 1 resume a few more parlicuLnv; o: my \isit to Mount Iladiiiin.; Hie 1 l.x.t'o'is, an 1 as f donor intend ' ; oi'ig near that do'ijh'ful locality for a while •it loi.'.t. 1 intend ro be m-ir-j Irutbfulthan poli :c ness requ:r <v rf. I Jolt the manorial Pratt depc ndfivr the hn lintjs, wbero still <flo»vcrt'd aloft, in presidential gri.n-lic-s the majesty of Turo the Teniiile. Up the huiJi ]• then skipped a whipperRMarpcr lookin.' fort ri a genrlenian. bootod and ti,'htisli ;is to tho le'^s, and ; with t!)e g'nerx! appi ai.ance as ho lcint mi th" fr -ut bar of thu hustings, su',::estivo of the aviary at the Zoo. "Js tins a eaMdida'e? lie n'en save the mark ! '' said Tto mys 'If. These v;ilil gesticulations, th's gnashing of tho iesih, Ihis vviviiiL,' a'ofi of tho dubious kid glove ! He had iv pr -R'-n'od th- mb; fore, h % said. In tho P.'irliamont of tho Coh.nv he hid fought tlviv b tt^l-'R ; he had, in the eloquent Jaum n ,_r> of the PbP.lmisr., " done wonderful things." Xo on> certainly would have though 1 ", it 1o look at or to hear him, but truth is Straus? 1 ofttiuics, and mayhap our avi-iry friend deserves well of Lis coun f ry. As a puMic speaker I should say ho fails, but by no moans fiom any lack of bumntiousnes', in which ho cmulaies to some exfeni", the gre-it Shepherd, M.P.C., bur, 1 should r.ithcv h? incline I to sunpos'j, it it is not hi^ii tre 13011 so to speal: of a now voiitable M.T* , from a very decided i -nor.i'ico of tho subjec's he professes to discuss, and from a harsh dictatorial de1 very inexpressibly aggravating to his hearers — but quantum in iff. Let us bear lightly with him ; he hath aener.iUy voted right, and is not in private life the anointed bear which g.teth by the designation of " Smiler."' The peroration of his present spe< eh was good in its way, too L,ood ahivs 1 " to be cousitined to the limbo of the Mount Ida " Horer." (N.H. — Country pavers may bo "I 'oarers" or " novcrs.'*' Which is'the "T. T. I Ila ! Ila I) '" Gentlemer," pad the man in bo')+s — " [ r ic: t my ciuse unon von, tho horny headed (he me mt " handed '') fons of toil ; the miner — (cheors)— tho eow-'ceoner — (taint, cheer from a milk b'»v)— the bulloc'c slod^rr — ( \ Voice: " I'irdi of a feither.")— and tho agriculturist- ( V Minor : " What the tint, Jack?" — "tot for me to woo •h j w.irds of th ! ma'jtni!ice:it squatter in his slately halls— (\ Sr-naltor: "J>on't. let's lis en any longor this roi,") — 'T the sho'lii v .i'i-toor;icy of Naseby !" —( Veils of d"li :ht iv «m unwash'ul.) ITe do^cm.'le.'l. I fi-lt thirsty. I warmly clenched his hand ; .siy.s T. " An amaz'na; .sMi'ech, co ivietion in its ev^ry sont^ii;.' " Says he, '• II:>\-c you n m'ner-s' righl ? " "No," niyslin awe ik moment, "but the r.-;ht /.f every free born Brilon." lie did not ask me to drink. 1 saw him soon a^ter upon a very yrOigv horse, wending his way slowly out of the township. Tf he bccein^s their member, ihe electors here may say v. iih Shakespeare, and so thou-rht I—" A poor Ihing, a poor ihinnr, but mine own ! " Pj-att, in the jubilation of his heart. \\a-< moro lo the puipose ; nor Averc (rcorjo. In dor, and Co, less demonstrative 011 behalf of their good came. 1 srot very- c>*'mfortablc in tho course of the af+.'raoon. and reckoned myself exceedingly foitunate, in not po-4°e&sin^ ;>, \ote, as thereby I was enabled conscientiously to promise all paities ; bein'4 thus a source of innocent pleasure io many good p"ople,andf:il')llin£f. T consider, a hi.'hly (JhrisMan part. "Very unprincipled!" w-is it? I like you ; "unprincipled!" well that is good for yon. No, lam not going to say anything about st ii'trog poor ITay, r<n account of tho possible po te.v, or the rattiu" 1 upon

1 forbear, but don' l , cnll nio ruiTus if ym please. Tho i')uii'"lin boat tho same d-iy brought up a jL-reat man, the veritable son of Lev^who is supposed to pull the electoral strings in lOunedin. His dr ss was solemn blick, relieved l>y the carbnncly £;leAming of his prominent fe:\Mne. Ho carried a small black ba^, and iridcr his arm r, as a roll ofp.ipois, evidenMy pos f er3. I lis mission so>>n got yin 1 : f.p -ci il envoy on behalf nf th<Dune lii can tidat. 1 . The wicked wcic s'mv.i " tioubiiiu." and in half an hnur the pu'tlij wei 0 inform' d through the mo'lium of evo"vwli<re where ,1 bill oonld '.»o stuck, "The Hr.ndicd Pounds has rv rivod. Do yen vant to l,uv a va^ch ? " T'h's was retorted upon by pi "as mi jcv d'cicrils cuch as ""Vote for r>lacas^ >y, and not for Tij/h's'iin and b-iots " ; '• Don't p.iat'h the morsel of bread from the CoekiM) 'V mouth." Tho local Pros.; seomo-l ti> b? kept pretty w*ll going, but the ttjr v. as co irs". Sir. decided] v coiu'f.o — none of your ynllo U',ps, but ih > re ;ui .r old sledyc han'imr r.fyh;. Tim r.'in of Levj made a^reit noi--", (ImV I'.ti 1 "); •riend and foe were equally welc «m j in lvi hos:ni>* bl<! rounds, i evcmiotieof tho Water Commissioner, who, by-'he-'iyu, f-eems to turn r>p invariably at the cii'.icsil time like an electoral Mother Carey's chicken, hob-uobbm ? with him; kes;p your eye open sW of Lovi ! Von are fishing in dangerous wafc-jrs. Nothing for nofhiug is the charactiiris'ic of your quasi friend. Squeedged like an orange will you be — a3 au orange squeedgejd !