The Wairarapa Daily TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1890. La Grippe in New Zealand.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 15 April 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1890. La Grippe in New Zealand.

Is La Grippe in New Zealand a faot or a fiction, a reality or a chimera? ' When some time back it was cabled from Homo that all the crowned heads of Europo'were sneezing and all the upper ten prostrated, we knew that a Colony like this, where so many notable people resido, must . catch on to such a fashionable disorder, The only question ivas which of our more important centres of population would be first to introduce . the fashionablo novelty. We had some hopes of Wellington doing its " duty at the crisis, but latterly Dunedin has been very much to thefore, . and we were not altogether surprised i when one morning a wire from Otago i announced that La Grippo had made ■ its appearance there; that some ' fellow or other opening a ooso • of 3 Glenorat newly imported from Homo , had taken the microbe, or had been collared by it, and a medical consul- ; tation had placed it boyond a doubt i that the individual in question was 1 prostrated by La Grippe. Wellington 1 did not like a lead of this kind bung ' snatched by the city of the South, I but rallying under the blow wired to L Dunedin that not only had La Grippe i attacked numerous families at JM i Nick,.but it had,even invaded the 1 animal kingdom,, and a well-known ' horse was down with it and was ' ponsidered by the faculty to bo in quite & precarious condition At this stage the fltlw 'owns of the Colony felt it to be a dupyfpput themselves in evidence, and they were soon to the foro. La Grippe here I La Grippe there I La Grippe..'every. ■ where I La Grippe all but monopolised the telegraph wires, and no place Mt happy till it had reported itself.to the rest of tho Colony as subject.tQ the malady. In Masterton i as usual, we were a ljttjo behind, and for some time faded to get tip a page, . Each individual who sneezed wm placed under Burvoillance, but with no definite result, and U was feared that the most aristocratic complaint that flesh is heir to, failed to find a W/toJ in 'bis town. At last somebody's, wlfo'p BJBtpr's aunt was discovered to have taken to bpr feed, and to be imbibing water gruel. A medical reference pronounced the case to be ioilnensa, and also added thai inflenza was the same, as La Grippe. The presence. of the malady having thus boon clearly demonstrated, tho 'good news was telegraphed to various parts of the colony and Masterton was congratulated upon having taken its proper < position as the lead'ng inland town of the North Island. La Grippe is | now fairly established in all respect- i able families, and as far as wo oan ( observe it-is .precisely the same com- j plaint as the old fashioned' influenza j which has been wont to visit us at I the fall of the yew. Still ib. lifts tbis 1 advantage, people who aro eomfor . fable and contented with La.fjrippe ,• used to be uncnmfortablo and. djscon- t tented with influenza. Itistherefore ' very right and proper that influenza ' should be discarded in favor of its i ! mow ptrp'ul&T wojfern ml i

■lt is contended that Wairarapa North has not a single direct reproaentatWe,at the'EduontJon Board; I'it bedfeirable that a iesident in this district should sit at the Board, why Jo not the ■! local Committees noniinato some settler living hero for the position? It is siraplj ridiculous for those who maintain that direct representation is desirable to wind up thoir arguniont by asking Committees to support a Wollingtou resident,. Can, it is arguod, Wairarapa North be doniod one rtpmirn. tetfw-one resident member? So,' it "annot therefore vote for Mr Hawkins, because he is non-resident. We cannot understand this logio, though.wo oan sympathise, with the idea offending a direot representative to the Board. If Committees honestly desire direct representation they ought to nominate Bomeono aotually living in tho Oonnty.