ABOLITIONISM, ETC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4298, 23 August 1875, Page 3

ABOLITIONISM, ETC.

To the Editor of the Herald. Sir, —I think Mr. Firth has made a mistake. He says, in effect, that to believe in the abolition of Provincial Parliaments, and to believe in the Government measure now proffered as a substitute are identical, whereas it is plainly possible to hate the one system and to despise the other. What lie says about the evil of ten Parliaments for the two countries may at this time of day be written down a truism ; at least, scores of us have for a good while been saying as much ; and he has written a long letter composed of one mistake and a truism, and sent it at one hour to three of the four newspapers ! The question is (only we ought to get postponement first), what is the substitute ? Is it worse than the old system on same ground, or is it simply no better ?—our imperative demand is. Mr. Firth strangely says, " There is nothing in it:" that the most tremendous revolutionary bill /containing a very large number of clauses) of this present Government bo first received by us, then read, then carefully and very cautiously considered, then publicly discussed with perhaps some lively living noise and no deadncss. Mr. Firth says we do not want to Bee the thing; but he should know that some Abolitionists have prououueed it bad. And why this desperate hurry i It looks suspicious. General elections after a lapse of a few mouths ; and there must be previous examination. Tho talk about pikes and powder is nonsense. Let us work weil, and work well our own pollingbooths—and we have not yet realised all their capital force and power. I never saw the Liverpool side of the British Islands, and my idea of governmental independency here, in New Zealand, has had reference, geographically, to our old Dover Straits, ' compared with our Cook's Straits —only Cook's straits passage is somewhat broader. And now I affirm that England and France must still continue to have two separate in- ' dependent Governments—one for each. So must soon these two island countries. Now, ] then, for Separation,—unreserved, total, perfect, immediate, placing us like Melbourno ' and Sydney, or Victoria and Tasmania I ' am, ote., ' W. E. Sadler. '

Mits. Beechek.—That was a sharp reply , of Mrs. Beecher, the other day, when b)io j answered somo questions as to how she s managed to endure all the anxieties and , fatigues of the trial, in this way : "To bo , mad all through is a good tonic." Beeeher ( himself couldn't have improved on that. , A Husband's Revenge.—A fat ragged- , edger at Nashua was suprised by the in- f dignant husband the other day, and at- ( tempted to escape by crawling out of a small . pantry window. In this aperture, however, J his ponderous body was caught, and whilo , thus held, unable to move one way or the ; other, the injured husband fanned hira with < an ironing-board, until the victim's howls ( roused the neighbors and peace was restored. The Furohk.—A correspondent with the j American riflemen in Dublin pictures the ( furore they have created there :" A per- , fumer has named a pcrfumo after them ; a . tailoo wants to copy their shooting-jackets ; a j butcher in the Dublin market is offering the ( ' American Team sausage,' and a druggist is . out with tho 'American Team Bill.' '. Yesterday I took a stroll with Col. Boditio. j It came on to rain (it rains a dozen times a day here, and without the least provocation), and tho Colonel wanted to buy an umbrella. We entered a shop where bo found and bought/what he wanted. Half-au-houraftur- i ward ono of tho party came to the hotel and said that tho umbrella-vendor had hung out a placard, ' Patronised by tho American i Team,' and there was a crowd of people I around his door." 1