FIRST LESSONS IN COLONIAL LIFE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 345, 28 May 1863, Page 4

FIRST LESSONS IN COLONIAL LIFE.

i fc Dedicated to all New-Comers, by their *i sincere Friend,— Old Practical. iAdapt yom*self as Speedily as possible to [i the new circumstances of your life. [ Make light of petty trials and grievances. 1 Do hot be put out or discomposed by the '! new work which you have to. perform. Put up for a time with make-shifts, ’ rather thari spend money for more per-: \ feet furniture and appliances, until you are richer. ’ ‘ Do not expect to grow rich rapidly. Bear in mind that every sovereign will *| be worth twenty to you after a few * yearn colonial experience. 1 Do not blame the country or your friends 1 for your own blunders, as you are ’ pretty sure to make plenty. * Pay no attention to street-corner gossips, ’ who generally consist of the scum of 1 . the last few arrivals, who are useless ’ : for any industrial purposes, and to [ coyer their own shame abuse the couii- ! try And the Land Regulations. 1 1 Do not buy'anything which you can make ' \ for yourself. Do not abuse Officials' and Obuneilinen—j there’s no knowing what you may come to yourself. . \ Do not talk of “ What yon have been used to,” br “ what you have riot been used to,” at home ; nobody will believe you, and well-bred people never do it. Turn your band willingly and cheerfully to whatever your duty calls you, and , ; yon are sure to be respected. ' Remember that we all canie here to better r our condition—which pretty strongly implies that we were' riot doing oyer » well at home. No talking, therefore, r of “ How much better, we were oft before we came here.” ’ Bear in mind that Colonial people are pretty discriminating, and can soon discover between sham and reality. If 1 you show yourself to be honest and J industrious you will soon be respected. < [New Zealunder .

One of the happiest hits ever made at thae bar was made at Erskine in the days of his renown. He was arguing on a patent right relative to> some new kind •of' biickles ; his opponent,. Mihgajr,. strongly contended that the -invention. was worth nothing. Erefcme- started up and said: in a solemn tone,— ‘ I said, and say again, that our ancestors would have looked on this invention as sigularly ingenious—they would have been astonished’ at these buckles.’ ‘ Gentfemen of the Jury,’ said ; Mingay with equal solemnity, * I say r - nothing of my ancestors, but I am. con.»vinced that my learned friend’s anees.tors would have been mushi more astonished at Ms shoes and stockings.’ The- court buret into a roar.