DREAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 577, 1 February 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

DREAMS.

Oh ! gi»e me ileep, and let it brinf m» Back the scenes of other dajf, Let its shadow roic»« ting me Childhood's long forgotten I*s ■. Let ray own de»r Mother's kiuei Fall again upm my brow ; The voice mj heart ao oftea misie*, Oh ! let me hear its music now. Like dewy moonlight on the flowert, When dry and hot the day hath been, The soothing, dream ,f happy hour* Steal* softly through the years between. From flowers fair the dew may vaniih Till evening thadows fall again, And sweetest dreams the day maj banish, Yet neither fall on earth in vain. _ , Sunbeam. Te Awamutu.

Payment to Mbmbers.— Wo recently drew attention to the necessity for reform in the matter of pajment to members of the Home of Representatives and the Legislator© Council which is alreadj exce»sire in New Ze tland and threatens to become ttill more so. The same matter is a£»itatini< the public mind in Victoria. The Sy.'nay mail alluding to the subject shows, that the tide '«cmi to be turning in Victoria (the stronghold of tlie ifttem) against payment of members. People there are beginning to find out that they do not get a better olaaß of representatives by it, nor got the work of Parliament better done, that it cDsts much money to no good purpose (it costs New Zealand now close on £20,000 por annum) but rather with the effect of damaging the chawvoter and efficiency of P:r]iamentary Government. Party Government, without winch the business of the couutrj cannot be (-ffioientiy earned 01ns bard enough in any case to maintain in the Jolonien, but with payment of members id must bo -till more difficult. Unless the Governor were poaieised of a cle^r head and undinchmg courage Pailiaraenfary independence would soon disappear under t^o payment *y»tem. Professional politioianf, and there would be many, looking to the safety of Jtheir £300 a year payment as the one thing to be held constantly in Tiew would be at the beck and call of the Miaistry of the day. Subiemenea 10 the Ministry would not be the worst eril, there would follow a total destruction of faithfulness t, pii — r.'- Wh^ piW pi ;0; 0D al polit cun would boldly rt,w-i by a Mmntry that was talcing „ coBi»e of donbtfu.' yonuluFity, even though Lie beiidTed it to be right ? 111 1 Victoria these umttei'i lire becoming to bo understood and approbated, and as * consequence the peoplo arc jun 1 , now endeavouring to shake off, as raisohiew>ii«, 'ho very B} stem some <uuong us in New ZeJ<md seem anxious to drrelop more fully, and, as we hare suid, render still more dangerous by liiing iL permanently by Act.