THE HINEMOA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5539, 17 November 1879, Page 2

THE HINEMOA.

('.' IiYTTJELXOIf TIMES,". NOVEMBER 11.) It will be found, we believe, afte moderately careful examination of the, re ports of , certain ; speeches delivered not i century ago in various parts .of tlie colony that the Hmemoa has been sometime mentioned in public. • Close examin'atioi will reveal the fact that the Hiriemoa wa mentioned a great deal. It may even b .discovered, without a. great waste. ,o ihinking power, that this lovely nam became at one time a synonym for all tha is corrupt and dreadful on the part of. Government. When the present Govern ment was in Opposition, . in the days of th Consul Plancus let vs "say /they, made th< appalling discovery that" Ministers kepi in the "most improper manner, a yachttfo the private pleasure of themselves and thei ■ supporters at the public expense:* Th , name of this notorious vessel was Hine moa. To judge by the. vehement languag which was occasioned -by the pronouncinj of that name, one might have imagine! thaj the Hineina was a kind of pirat of great notoriety! -in New Zealan< waters. , The burniug eloquence p some patriotic gentlemen wad stjg gestive of visions that? annoyed them visions of a low. black hull, tali rakinj masts, and a block flag gliding rrofselesal^ over the midnight ocean, bent on unhol enterprise against peaceful . traoer' ploughing the main. If the craft did no cause any mysterious disappearance o merchantmen, she at all events mad many inroads on the Colonial exchequer Her naughty doings were set forth s often that at last the whole of He; Majesty's Opposition came to suffer fron Hinemoa on the brain. There ' wa " Hinemoa " in every Opposition speech "Hinemoa" in. every Opposition news paper, and there was no end to th chorus of "Hinemoa" that rent th heavens in many shouJfe? of cxc oration. At last the uufor^^te oraf unable to bear the increasmgweight < objurgation, broke down. Then it wa discovered that the Premier had burst th boiler, by recklessly driving the wretche specimen of naval jobbery into the teeth c every gale of wind that blew on our breez coast. Eventually the Premier and hi Ministers sailed out of office in th Hinemoa. That was,.,a patriotic publi fondly imagined, her last trip in th public service. , Surely Tit was&impossibl that any member of the HaltGovernmeE would ever consent to make any use of th terrible, vessel, except .to send her t auction But if any faithful follower of Mr Hall trie to reconcile his conscience in this way t the re-appearance of the famous vessel, h was wrong. The Hinemoa was aimpl placed on the berth last Saturday as a Excursion vessel. She positively cam down to Canterbury on ah excursion trir and her owners did not even charge" ha price .... After this mos? bri liant and justifiable service' that vesst will no doubt depart altogether fromth pubic service. 5 instead of . makini piraiical raids into the shoal water" - c Major .AtkinsonV deficits, she will foUni her gay predecessor, the Luna, into th coal trade, we should imagine. While ah goes on blackening her decks in her n B i •Phare. -the Hall Government wilS ?«rv § Jhe t brightnes9 of its reputation f?