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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4797, 11 August 1894, Page 2

Atlas, one of i tho . Titans, was supposed, according to the myth iof his day, to carry the heavens on his I shoulders. We still have on tho earth Titanic creatures to whom are attributed fabulous powers. , Cannot Mr Seddon, for example, carry New Zealand 011 his shoulders, and is not our own Titan, Mr A. W. Hogg, equal to the task of uplifting his electorate ? Tho myth still survives, and the best proof of this is when we find our own Titan declaring in the House that the Colony is in a prosperous condition. If our own Titan wcro to express this opinion to the thirtv-six denizens of tho Waingawa shelter shed lie would, we fear, bo laughed at, or even if he tried to persuade the men wandering about Jlasterton looking vainly for work he would bo disbelieved, But our Titan is at the pleasant Parliamentary Olympus " where the God's lie together all careless of mankind," or perhaps like the American hero he considers that all the world is going right because he'is crying "Gee!"