TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 September 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J.B.—Tour division of the inhabitants of a colonial town into the snobocracy and the mobocracy.igin the main correct; but there are men classified among the former who are ashamed of their fellows, and men belonging to the latter who though men of small means, arc men of large ideas. There is no aristocracy in a colony, the richest men being the most ignorant and ill-bred, and some of the poorest being those who can justly boast of their birth and education. Constant Reader.—The estimates will never be reduced while there are so many officials in the Legislature. So also while tax-eaters are the tax-imposers, a reduction in the Tariff is out of the question. We would disqualify all officials from beingmembers of the House of Representatives, but allow Superintendents to have seats ex officio in the Legislative Council. X.Y,Z. —The lines on Charles 11. are not strictly applicable to the party you name : “ Here lies our Sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.” We question whether they were applicable in the case of the King they refer to. There are but few men who do not say a foolish thing, and who do not, if only by accident occasionally do a wise one. Philo. —The word “ sheared ” had not its origin in America, but is in fact an old English word, like many others we could name, which though obsolete in England has preserved its full force and meaning in the United States. Lex.—The Provincial Solicitor, if he ever labored to be anything, labored to be a Sevcrus Cassius, who, we are told by Seneca, always spoke best on those subjects he had never thought of beforehand. Surveyor.—The charge 'imposed by the Native Land’s Act for the verification of surveys no doubt operates as a bar to the successful working of the. Act. This verelicatiou ought to be done by the General Government, as the Provincial authorities, in their short-sighted way, fancy that money that does not directly come into their Treasury is lost to the Province. H.M. —There are so many Acts relatingto the subject of roads that it is difficult to know which of them is in force. Since the publication of the Provincial Acts a law has been passed which places restrictions on the power of the Superintendent to sub-divide Road Districts.