Correspondence.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 21, 14 September 1848, Page 3

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Anglo-Maori Warder. Sr,— i You complained in your last that "it was leather-plating work for journalism, whilst his Excellency was away; that all interest ceased in public affairs, and that men minded their own business."— Passing over the subacid hit at the political tone which so strongly characterises thiß Colony, 1 will go so far as to say, that if his absence had really that effect, it weie perhaps better that he stayed awav for good i Auckland would be the gainer, although I .urmiselhat -vou would be the loser, having so I'tile left to say. Olhello'a rcrupntion would then be sltogether gone ; for we will do yi u the justice to acknowledge that you. -ever play at long bowls, nor, indeed, ever encage at - excepting »t half pistol shot But if you be really - souch "of Percy's mind, the Hotspur ol the North; ■** tl at kills me some six or seven dozen uf Scot a t a ilreakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, —' Fie "upon Ms quiet life. I want work ,-"—allow me to sugg st the propriety of keeping your own hand in, and beguiling the time • f Sir George s absence, by de. moliebing some of the tribe of X, and other your Me assailants, whom therefrom number XIII., and the proposed address to Ex Governor Fitzroy, broughtout in such numbers to the fi Id. I can recollect the time when you were in great glee at the prospect of " a fair stand up fight" between the Governor and the Missionaries. There is no reason why vou, who were so anxious to see other people at logger heads, should not be called upon to do a little battline in yonr own proper person- It would be very amusing to the byestauders, who might take a lesson from vou in the noble art of self-defence, and serve to atOD a" eran in the columns of the Warder. * B r Game Chicken. ['• Gome Chicken" would be much belter eoiph yed in winning hiß own spnrs. than in trying to bring other prople into the pit. Ctmpliance »ith the suggestion would, doubtless conduce very much to his amusement, but he has yet to shew that his own amusement is cousideiation paramount. Like Virgil's Entellus, costus artemij'ie repono, for many valid reasons, which Game Chicken must be content to accept, in lieu of the main he desires to see fought. In the first place, we have no idea of being brought out at will, l.ke Sampson, to make sport for the PhiliaSecondly.—We suffer ourselves to do battle with nothing under the degree of belted Knight Like Artbegal in the Fairie Queen, we hand over the rabble to the tender meicies of " Talus with the Iron Thirdly.—The contest would be too unprofitable. The only gainers woul.l be our assailants, who seem to have borrowed a hint from those very knowing savages, who threw stones at the monk.ys in the trees, hoping to b" pelted with cocoa nuts in return. Fou.thly. —Itwould he too imr.ru.dent. There is not only no profit, but risk of infinite loss besides, in dealing with adversaries. " Qaos vinccre inglorium, et a quibus atteri sordiium. For Where's no honor to be gain d, 'Tls thrown away in being maintained. r riflhlv. —It is not to onr taste. Aquila nan mangia mdsc/ie—e, goss hawk heats not at a bunting. > butbly, and lastly.—They can do no ham. Tela imbellla due icfu; bucklers are not needed against them, nor Milan coat of proof: arenzahere, or raosqui'o net, is defence enough. To borrow Theodore H«ok's joke, let them be neglected most severely." s Our correspondent hints that His Excellency •' may possibly stay away for good." For » hose good > may we ask: pis ibly far his own. L ; ke Tasso'a rosebud, Quanta « moslia men, tantopill ebetto. Our correspondent likewise observes that a paper warfare " would seive to stop a gap in the columns cf the Warder." Even there we are not yet driven to extremity; we hold with Autolycus, lhat there is always "matter for a hot braiu : Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful Do we not recognise in " Game Chicken" an old Correspondent, who was contented with simply styling hims. If " A Passenger," in a former number, but has now ventured on a more specific designation ; still, hosev.-r, seeming to misdoubt our devetaptment of