OTAMA EVOLUTIONS

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 368, 24 June 1884, Page 2

OTAMA EVOLUTIONS

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£ , y .TO THB;I}I)^TG.B. Sir, — With a courteous request I never rfja.il, to comply ; therefore, pro bono publico, I > fcVans'ate after a^way ifeto. 'Gaelic ttfe|quotation from Horace, taking the same* freedom as my friend, that is, .to follow the idea rather than the very letter . Am bheil thu 'faicinn duine a tha glic 'n t, bharaii fein T tha aobhar dochaiS"fii'S" mo' . , . Gualh Fhocail." The flippant use of "ape" and " Almighty 0, doTiot becomeTj>hilosoplMr ; so I ao not regret that I am to-*r§ceive no further attention from your contributor. I am thankful He has 1 ii 6t ■• proposed to annihilate me, and 1 have in any event the coniolation that I will still continue to bo seen by the reflecting in the southern eky. In return f fmfetel4£PS*&ng, bjLess^^COiinsel'dbim to take with him into his retirement a modern globe and th& it new edition of Oliver and Boyd's * Gazetteer of the World,' and between : them, he. may (evolve that Montreal is,in the Dominion df Canada 'on' raefcbttH We, while Yankeedom is on the south side of the St. Lawrence, tTie "liver in connection with the gorges of which geologists hay« formulated the stages of th« eozoic period. Strange that a geologist should have made such an oversight 1 My friend is confounding Canada with the States, as he_did the Irish with the Scotch — it is my missionto give light in darkness, and I hope he is mixing nothing else. I now bid jMm/faijefvelL.foE-your columns,, open as they -ark to -the '«ci&tiikJLenqui^r,' JaKJ'a&iyet, I fear, too nar/ow for an pntological controversy. If niy^iri<hcP is still inclined for a night at that lain quite willing to send a i delegate "to strip "in the new Town Hall, A winner to get the drawings, tneloser'to pay for the hall, and-the question to be, " Whether jnodern evolutipnists have done anything beybSaTOfl^ lip 1 ' Witnfia r JSnW WfMosaic '' . sokonui^2na Jun^, 1884: ■*" ri>:> * ddP.Si--I am sprry,sp many o valnabJejMslagßic tomes should lie, dusty .at Otama] my friend b'esfow'm's'ire&ifte (prlM'tlyplHa as in the earth) on the-€rore Athenaeum, either for .mopfy^for/loy^jgs r 7jan£ J cgjnmns asatire on its empty shelves? " ' * 5 *