SRRING ?

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 5

SRRING ?

• WEATHER AT ODDS WITH TEE ■'I , ■■.'. season/-,: ; : :'■',,:: ;,; ~ . A-..PROTEST,. . . ; It is"with feelings of tho'warrhcst indignation that this protcst'" , is"madc agauisS Nature's twistiness./ The winter was bad 'enough in Wellington, and every right existed to,justify the expectation''of moderate decency in the. behaviour of Spring. Tho expectation, oven, has proved to bo like unto tho policeman'i-wjieii;. trouble is. afoot — it don't exist. Week' after' Week has passed, and-sonio have : been; deluded .into expecting brJfihtor things,' hut,: just as they.had •really decided to fully expect'the season;when a young';mart's , (or woman's): fancy- lightly turns'to thoughts'of love,'.; something, happens that "drags' ono ' back to J . winter -and ; tho comforts that are jregnrded-witlv.scorn when the sap' of s-'lusty spring leaps in . the-'blood.. Somehow Nature has become 'twisted- round —is' doubling''back -'on-her tracks —and far ; fr6iiv'thc : blootUleaping 'there is' so'■far. no consciousness , of il a ; ..baby'' hop I ]' and 'it '• is. all attributable ■ to the ; outrageously l wretched wohtlibr that is .uhdormin'ing , 'otir : belief 'in our follov.'-itian ; 'aiid ; ■'oin' •" fiiftli in' ; ''the'"'calc!Klar. There "ii '' air ancient' play , bn f 'words: which : goi!s':— ''''< '"'■ .■'-''"•"■■••' •-.•.('.;?. .•._,•=.;,,.!.! .■;.-... ■ ':'.!• ,'■...'.' " ;i.i'-'..'.-.T>'.' .;.-: ■/■..■■ l .<:jl- V.\.:-.'-, ■' Whether 'tis'cold'or •wh'J3'thor'-'' , tis'hob,' , ... . We've , got,to weather it, whether'or not. , ' sound , "plJiloSophyyjiii"' tli'pso lines somewhere,'of tho grin-'ari'd-bear-it order, but' being irritable, a freeholder .(with tho lambs.very backward)'; 'it is fittinf .'.that a violent protest should be entered against- : the untoward .-,meteorological, conditions that are being forced upon, us by a i.pWverting influence somewhere. It may be spots on the sun, blots oh tho'moon, or the outward and-visible sign; of the earth's dis-. gust at the new Land Bill/'but,'whatever -the cause, the offect- was summed up crisply ■by two passengers on aCourtcnay.Placo car iye.itcrday. Matters'did'iiot'conduce to chcer--ful conversation—wind shrieked in a minor .'.key, throwing a ~Tnis,ty... dampness, on eyery(thing, but "the"dust, 'winch 1 still whorlcd ferociously in a dozen riiad eddies. Brown, .-having caught'his hat, nioiintcd Ihe'car, and, ■secingi.S.mith, said,.'.'.. Rotten weather 1" ',■■■ J ''Rot'teiv!-/.'...jetunied.'Smith...".,-.•.'". - : ! Both vippßreijtjy reckoned...they-,had/done ■■their'..duty. :by'.,one.-'another,'.;and their faces .rassuihccl.:,the. hard.;,lines' that. come ; with a ~!..,,,; ...', . ;. A \'i'.i-■'■•• '-■■ |. Yesterday's.w.eatli6r. was no.good' to.any:onp/, ..A' ;■ gale-bowled ..dpwnii'oiri "tho. nor'Twest.,. under- a ..near grey,, ,sky,. that, along the, hill' linp.eiHleil, iira.. ragge'd • Scotch •miat-.that-.,clung ;dn.m''i)ly,-,tp,:;thc.. houses of Kel bu.rno-i and..'the : pale gree.n-. hills-beyond. Thp-'atmosp.hp're-was ugly to.feel and-.unr.c-. froshingto..brQatho, I ,an(i'..it-say.oufed more of thccold chill of winter;than:-the. warm.breath of spring.. why.* Maine! yesterday? it was really typical of the niotcorological in■■justicc that. has. been..done, us Jfqr r the" last six or eight wceku; ' Th'crb Has b'e'cn'n'6 spring , —are' ive Hlqing , '' penance -tor;, an-.' unknown .:off()nce,''or is'.'it 'merely injustice that: is beyond -rectifying'?n ; :Mr. Bates 'must'cortaihlyOjcconsultcd^perhaps'.Captain Edwin, too—the situation demands'a ! series of interviews. ' One ,was i collided'.witl^. accidentally, jh, a .shoitef'yest'erday;'"" at'his' place at Wainui there had- , been practically no :.spring.growth ,q.f:.grass,. and ho jiev.eiv.rcmem..bere'd 'look' sb.'ipo'b.r. The .lamb. crqp.''had.,s;vffq'red a ..good deal,. and' ho.. '. : was>preparcd.tp'\vage'rtljat.;'tlie fleeces : jybu!d. i '-bo;.hghtor,.t!iis. t year...than- for many 'seasons 'back. He saidjie had Received .a jletter froiii North, Taranalir stating', spring., was'still. ..among tho. /•' expected...arrivals, , ',,,ami/ that .the."dr.carjVjCon'tinuity.; of .the'spildcning.rains. '/had'.' .transmuted -the...'; sheep : Sto'' lumps of animated, .spoiigp.'.'Ofroni'.tliat,Jici.n'ontv.on. ;to Jcroak that i.whcat- was', up, j flour.,was ,up, bread was up. ;.Oatmeal.'«nd,.chau: wcrcalso 'up,_sqiwcro wage's and,nptat'oes.i.'H-What .was 'going tp. happen V. S: I Thp writer was,sd'.'charmed,.with..the;'enter-' staining conversation- : ..ho/ took; 'labelled .!' Kilbirnie,!' ;-,thougji-,hb wished •to reach the,, Government Buildings;- because ho ''happened tp;know,ihat : thp...Pessim(st was due , in thp pity,- r ,-. n ■;-,,- .;:•-'; ~•,.;-j ,; .■,;,-,■.:.-. ■;