CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 26 April 1906, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor).

Sir,—lt is a wonderful, and at times a fearful and wonderful thing to observe the manner in which this joung colony has, within such few years, progressed from savagery to civilization, and how it has imitated and, if we would believ our great Prime Minister, improved 'and surpassed the Mother Country. Fifty years ago Masterton was the home of the pukekos and the swamp ben and the ti-tree: to-day it has shops and streets and a lot of lamps down the middle of one of them. And to-day witnessed another milestone in the march of our civilization, is the ' shape of a Lord Mayor's show. It was, Sir, a most notable sight to see our Worshipful Mayor, supported by the greatest luminaries of the Council, proceeding in Mr Miller's buggy, gravely, up the main street, and gravely circling round and round one of his own lamp-posts, while "the population lined *,he streets," and more notable and entertaining still, was it to see the same august personage, driven by a blindfold gentleman j again circle the same lamp-post in presence of the same populace, while the Town Clerk, in a bold upright and oai.ifully attentive attitude, held a couple of pieces of string by the aid of which, together with a strong and obvious mental effort, he appeared to guide the | said blindfolded driver. And not able also were the anxious expressions on the countenances of the venerable Councillors who were taking the air in the same vehicle. Truly we are becoming a very great people.—Yours, eto., DIOGENES.