SWITZERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 193, 19 October 1871, Page 6

SWITZERS.

(F)om our oion Correspondent.)

• I had made up my mind to allow your space to be occupied by others this week,- as Switzers has .pressed rather heavily on your columns lately; and the eliminating process and " pressure of space " notification causes r ither a strange sensation in the/region of the gullet, almost enough to cause one to wait a more favourable opportunity ; but since the arrival of the miil last evening, I have softened The wailing cry for help, floating on the wind, hat wrought a change in my mind. " Sarves 'em right, sarves 'em right," I hear on every side of me, and but for my better nature guidinjj me I would echo the sentiment ; but it is not English to strike the fallen, neither is it merciful to withhold sympathy from the suffering, although it be the result of fully. Through excessive kindness a certain person took the frown viper to his bosom, and the result is well known. Nature will •iss«-rt itself. The colour of the darkey will be ever the samp, rub him as you will ; neither can he change his skin. But- how strangely infatuated those persons must be who regard him as other than he is. Experience, oh ! what a word and what a teacher ! A lew short months, and a lesson is before us that would serve the wise for life. The sounds of victory are scarcely from our ears. Our friends may appropriately use the language of a certain general, <; Another such victory, and wo -are ruined." A petition •arrived last evening from Mr. Bradshnw's Lite supporters at the Teviot, with an accompanying letter asking t'ne Switzers people to join, them in sending a, petition to him requesting him to resign his seat in the House of Representatives for the Waikaia district, and also his seat in the Provincial Council for the Mount Benger district", because of the flagrant violation of those pledges he gave bis-con-stituents that he would do what he could to settle the people on" the land. The recent land sale has caused them to feel that, he is utterly unfit for the pcs'tion in which they have placed him. The petition has already been numerously signed. Some of those persons who recently supported him say that he ought to be tarred ' and feathered. Oh ! oh 1 such is life.

There was a rush this week to the Muddy Terraces. Good prospects have been, obtained. Those persons who have been working there for the last two years "are still doing very well. The anti-chinese petition is sent away to-night; a large' number of names are attached to it. The> majority of the people here are Vatified to see that the Education jß^i. is withdrawn, as it wa6 regaTtfed as a retrograde step — something aldh to Victoria's system in the early days of that Wony. A national syßtem of education,' purely secular, is the requirement oi the present state of the country, • " j