THE RECORD REIGN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2144, 16 April 1897, Page 2

THE RECORD REIGN.

To the Editor. Sj ßi —a f;re»t deal ban been said and

wiiiten upon the above subject, notably, <ve> «efid oar Chief Mftgirtraie, viz., the Premier to England to represent our one tiuree etiow and slao a contingent to htlp him. The Premier, Mr R. Sedilon, is not; t«o bad but that I agree generally with hit) politics. Bnt beyond this there U fanner though Dr. Noufman said once in the Houee lb*t it w»8 cot Dick Seddon, bnt pick Tntor. Now what will eventuate when fcjir Richard returns? The question i« will he be the earns man ? It so, well, 1 honour to whom honour i« due. , Tbie preface may seem twaddle, but I wieb to letd tbe public idea to something more tbau a knighthood, beuaaee they ere as plentiful us blackberrye, and tbey pop away without leaving any record. Whet I wish is to bui'd Nounething that will not be perishable, but more durable than • paltry knighthood, and fit to nana , down to posterity. Now I must touob slightly upon history, and point out that it wan within Her Majesty's reign that tbie island was prevented from being a French settlement. Scarcely anyone living now knowM bow cloae a eliave it was. Had anything detained the Britoinart her minion would have been of no avait, because the French flag would have been hoieled, and then, only think I—these two diamonde of tbe British Empire would have bn«n held by different powere witb conflicting intereete. It ie tight therefore, that we Anglo-Saxons should now, by erecting a column propmly inscribed mark our appreciation of the merit due) to the wisdom of the then authoring, and also to tbe kind'y way in which ;h<* French emigrants and the Anglos Sixons amalgamated. I m«y be out of y>l on in uuggetting details, but tbey are aiwuyn open to conectiou. My notion it* to ert'.t a column—cay tliioe i.jgb—of concrete, and then raise the ouiumn ttiroe bided, suy about 15ft high (inch i-ide, with unit ably in Eoglib, Frniicb and Mnori. 1 foel rtHsured that if the City Fotliere would lube up my ouggentioi), them woul<i be i 11> tioutle in geu.ing euffi.ient funds to unrry it to a euccennlul t>rtoitifltion. Would H not, I »it^k, be one of the historic places to visit, and an incentive to many a to toru off ttio mm routes jiibfc for n tip io Akuroa* W*l , Dick fcSaddun, Diets T«tor, or hir Uiutiard meaua notliinK to posteri y, a though we fiad tbo dolUrs lor this iliui-y honour. But what 1 wish lo iojpre«»> ie : we old old liande wih to afdat in tint n.ec ion of eoiu. tiling tbet our cbii.iren'e children o»n read, and then draw oonoin-iona as to what might bare happened.—Yours, etc., fl. PIPEK.