MR GKANT AGAIN.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 35, 13 March 1878, Page 2

MR GKANT AGAIN.

I For fiftoen months before- thcro was o singlo state school in Now Zealand, I kept tho torch of knowledge burning brightly at my own expense. There were more classical scholars then, when DunO' din had not a population of Gi>o souls, ro« ceiying instruction than there is now in tho colony. I also opened, temporarily, neudemics in Wellington and Auckland and advocated tho establishment of a reai University of New Zealand: For ten years previous to Vogol's enunciation of his venal schoino, I always showed how a grand- trunk railway could bo constructed from tho #ny of Islands to Rivorton, without borrowing a shilling, but by economising our vast revenues nnd dismissing salaried drones. But "that man must bo kept clown, for he is dangerous." Well, well, God has given the people " tho desire of thoir hearts, but ho sent leanness into their souls." Mark our political, social, moral, educational, nnd religious degradation .' Charlatans— tint aro laughed out of countenance elsosvherc —visit our co!ony, hung out thorr repulsive- and singularly unintollectual portraits in our shop windows, and tho Press applaud, nml tho people p^onisc men who degrade tho lecturo hanTund burlesque the religion of Christ, an-l wound the Min-gs of nil intelligent and worthy men and women. In 18t>l, I stood up nnd before ma- s meeting* ndvocntod tho>estnblishmont of tho fl-st daily s 1 r?t in Now Zealand. Had I known Hint su.'h a crop of venal rans would have sprung up, like the teeth of dragons, from that seed, I should have held my lips undVr a sicrod seal 1 of »ih-nce. " Freo Thought IcoturoT.V strolling mountebanks, vulgar pronounciators, and parrots rociting tho bufTooneries of Diokous and Thnctcoray, aro laughed out of America, and daro not show their idiotic faces in Euglnnd or Scotland, and yet they aro lionised in tho fish villiagos of Now Zoalnnd. Ales T alas two have reached the climax of degradation with i vengeance. A Vorol, an Abbot, and a Mortison. aro going to solcct a seventh rector of our Hii?h School, i«nd our "lazy professional drones" get £000 caoh to livo in ignoblo indolenoo, and the people aro porishing for lack of knowledge. With, tho Bod Sea beforo thorn nnd avenging Egypt behind,, tho ohoson people \vero at thcr wits' end, hut the jrreat loadtr of- Rrael maintainod>a. serenity of doportmcnt,.and calmly said—" Stand still, and sec tho salvation of tho Lord :: for tho Egyptians whonn ye sco to»dny yo* shall see no. moro for over." Failing all aU tompb- to drivo mo- from tho colony,, at lost a plot) was shaped) on tho auvil of hell bo mako my life miserablo*. But horo I am, and hero I will remain*, and possess my soul in pntienec, and sco '•thosaWation of tho Lord " and tho grave closing ovor my bittcrcßt foos.