DÆDALUS REDIVIVUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 899, 28 March 1878, Page 2

DÆDALUS REDIVIVUS.

The province of the press is to correct all offenders against common sense. The moral and intellectual cuticle of some persons often requites si gentle irritant, m the shape ot* mild flagellation, to bring it again into a healthy condition. And this important duty has now fallen to our lot to fulfil. A Borough. Councillor of Hamilton, called Beale, has been m the habit of continually annoying the public and the Council by pouring forth streams of unintelligtole nonsense upon every conceivable subject. . This newly fledged local legislator has bad the impertinence to attempt, to censure us becaus ? we refused to become the chanuel through which his vituperative and other similar effusions should flow to the public. If we should lend ourselves to blow out this local frog to the size of the bull of the old fable there would be but little spaceleft to devote to therealand pressing necessities of the great district of Waikato. We really cannot pretend to print m full the glorious bursts of native eloquence which frequently astound the ratepayers of Hamilton borough. We are fonder of solid facts than talk, . and we place on record that Beale proposed the £20 vote, with a consciousuess of having done our duty to our readers, whftu, m re-producing the volume of empty sound which too frequently flows from men of his stamp, we feel that we should be mis-using space which, of right, is the property of the general public. We would recommend our peccant friend to re-cousider his position and drop from the clouds of self-importance to the terra firma of common sense, otherwise, like Daedalus, he may, by flying too near the sun. find that his pinions being made of materials not very durable will melt, away and let him down to his proper level with a disagreable crash.