THE IRONSAND BUSINESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2471, 8 December 1886, Page 2

THE IRONSAND BUSINESS.

Then there ia the ironsand and Smith, Tlio supply of ironsand is. inexhaustible; so is Smith. Smith is the Alpha, and Omega of the ironsand, and the ironsand is the Alpha and Omega of Smith. When. I'fifst.saw Smith he wore a Tani-o'-Shan-ter of .the Penn-Caffrey pattern. He had astroet lamp in ono pocket, and a ladder in. the other—no, what I mean to say is, -he had hia pockets full of a varied assort-.' moot of rags and sand specimens, a lamp 'in his hand, and aladdor on hia shouWor. Smith islamplnjhter-general and turncock inordinary to this town of New Plymouth ' rest of Mm is ironsand. .He wasiin 'conversation with Sir William Fox, filling. him up with ironsand, till, he promised to induce the Government to assist the iron industry. Tho old knight jb now a teetotal wreck. I made an appointmont to visit the Taranaki Ironsand Smelting Works; but, thank Hoayen, it rained ail •that day, and you were saved the expense of a coffin. However, you will shortly have an opportunity of seeing Smith, at he leaves for Auckland on Saturday. 1 havo given him'an introduction to yon. I hope you will treat him kindly. Don't set the office bulldog on him, or brain him with the pastepot, nor cut his .windpipe with the scissors;" just puthim through the Hoe web machino it the rate of 15,000 an hour, and fold him up nicely. Smith has been voted a holiday and. £lO to visit Auckland for the purpoae of raising £3OOO, for which sum he undertakes ,to make the Onehunga and Taranaki ironsand works a profitable speculation in less than three months. That Smith's smelting procoss is a success 500 people here who saw-it will swear to; yet 'tis stnnee —'tis passing Btfange—a community that has known Smith fortwonty years or thoreabouts, and is capable of throwing a quarter of a million in. the water, can't or won't, raise tho trifling sum of .£3OOO to put in the fire. It is really oreful. Let Smith have that £3OOO,- and "chalk It up" to me.—Auckland Weekly News.