The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1883. A VERY DULL SEASON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 27 January 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1883. A VERY DULL SEASON.

We are now passing through a decidedly dull season. Colonial politics are almost at dead low-water, and half-a-dozen Cabinet Ministers might -visit Masterton without running the risk of a deputation or a petition. . County business is, aB everybody knows, in a state of suspended animation, Highway Board operations are postponed till the closo of the harvest relieves the labor market, and as for the harvest itself, it is too light to open the hearts of growers and consumers. In municipal matters, there is moro than an ordinary amount of flatulency and impecuniosity. Business is dull, money scarce, and what moro need we say to complete the picture. The holiday season is over, and a long, long spell of dry weather is depresshig human beings as well as vegetation. One epidemic has succeeded, another, and the doctors have been the busiest men in tj|e community. JSveji the ordinary incidents of a dull season fail us on this occasion. Climatic considerations render a big gooseberry, a giant apple, or a mammoth pumpkin simple impossibilities, Such a season as wo are now enjoying is specially bad for journalists. How can a daily paper go on its way rejoicing when news is as scant as money ? We have looked with some curiosity through late numbers of the leading papers of the colony to see how our contemporaries get over the difficulty. Tliey must write day after day, but what have they to write about 1 The leading editors of the colony are equal to the occasion, and, as far as we can sen, are very busily engaged in putting the affairs of Ireland, Egypt, Russia, and Prance on a sound footing. Excepting a flutter over Bishop Moras, | they have during the past few days been without colonial material for their articles. They know if they worked up again the incidents of the last session of Parliament they would Bimply make their readers sick, and if they ventured to dose them with forecastes of the coming one they would make them savage, so they wisely and prudently travel abroad, Wellington has had one brief excitement in a new governor, and here we have had a windfall in Mxlner Stephen ; but after hp is gone what are we to fall back upon till the weather breaks and restores animation to the land. Sain, .lot .in J microscopic drops, but in copious showers, would do oiuch towards bringing the present dull season to a close —biit at this time of the year it is impossible to depend upon its yal,; Wemust be pontent to put up with drouth and dullness for awhile, having for our consolation tlje that the reaction will sooner or. l^pr make everybody busy and lively, We can only hope that the dullest of dull seasons will compensate by its brevity for its exceptional severity. .