THOUGHTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4722, 12 October 1872, Page 3

THOUGHTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL.

This Stafford. Ministry seems to have tried to out-Herod Herod iv bungling stupidity — returning confiscated land as a sop to the Maoris ; stopping the Road Board subsidy, as a discouragement to the country districts just when such local self-management is working so well; and then, as if to add insult to injury, proposing to legalise lloarl Boards borrowing money. The whole affair shows the unsuitableness of alegalChancellorof the Exchequer. — Your correspondent "J.W.," Mr. Editor, sots mo a hard task — to find out how to cm tail the use of the large amount of intoxicating drink now sold. I am as strenuous an advocate of temperance as " J.W ," or the whole phalanx of Peanissive people, and I am willing to make any sacrifice to curtail the use of such dunk, if I can see my way to do so ; but I have not yet seen any scheme propounded that, to my mind, will effect this most desirable end. Tdo not believe the Permissive clause will do it. My belief is that nothing but the spread of religion will do it, and I believe, where broad religious truths are inculcated in the minds of the people, they will become temperate, sober, and respectable members of society : and T do not believe in anything else doing it. — I think, before so important a measure as returning the confiscated land," for which we have shed so much blood, and paid so much money, was decided upon, the Ministry should have taken the opinion of the constituencies ; but, no — I suppose the Stafford-cum-Sewell Ministry must take things with a much higher hand. I see there is one very important part in our legislative proceeding?, in fact the most important, and one which, for a time, puts a stop to everything else, ie. , the "dinner bell." It stopped Mr. Stafford one day in the middle of a moat important speech, and the next day Mr. TTitzherbert in the same way was cut short in his speech. I don't remember anything of this sort taking place in the British House of Commons, but, probably, the members are not bo hungiy there. A Man in the Bush.

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