ROUND THE CORNERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 17

ROUND THE CORNERS.

I have heard of a fishing excursion organised with much care and garnished with the highest anticipations. A 6teamer was chartered; there were a lot of people armed with the requisite appliances for hooking the finny.. And there were other things on board na wellloaves in [plenty, to match the fishes. But, alas and alack a-day ! the latter did not see it. Like the public, semeiimes, when good things are offered in the way of irreproachable investments, they declined to bite, and so the day’s fishing produced but one wretched kawai that was caught by a retired bank manager, who thus rendered himself an object of envy to alt on board. Everybody, however, enjoyed everybody else's disappointment, and prayed for better luck next time. We have heard the first official utterances of the new Mayor, and I am free to confess a little disappointment with them. He gave a long, list of necessities, but not a word about decent salt water bathing accommodation for the city. Of all the necessities mentioned, there ia not one for which there is available funds. Money will have to be raised somehow, if these necessaries are to be provided. Hence, why not have incldded salt water baths as a necessityonly less urgent than effective drainage, fer it is eminently sanitary. Then, again, the cemetery propositions were uttered with no uncertain sound. 4 The project takes us outside the city boundary, and by railway, and that funeral train business is something to be avoided, if passible. It will be a dreadful drag—to say nothing of expense—for mourners from bridge-terrace, Adelaide-road and Newtown, and, indeed, Te Aro generally, to some place between Johnsonville and Kaiwhara, aud ‘ this has been pointed out before by the Wellington newspapers. An alternative scheme is demanded. Indeed, the train proposition is unattainable saveat an enormous expense. That is, unless the ordinary' trains are used as mortuary trains, which haji not yet found favour anywhere. And. if "mortuary trains are run, how many ‘'bodies.’’will it take ta pay for the trip, And will the dead have to be kept until a suffioient number have accumulated to pay for the train? Again, I say, avoid the mortuary train business, if possible. Then as to providing ways aud means. What is wanted is delicate financing, not the Yogelian brutal system of downright borrowing. An increase of the rates by even one penny in the pound is to be intensely deprecated. If I remember rightly, Mr Buthie, in one of his addresses, objected to further loan raising for municipal purposes, and I have no doubt will sea his way to avoid itThat he will be a most creditable Mayor all are pretty well agreed, and he will keep the city ship well trimmed. I tender him my sincere congratulations on his accession to. the civic chair. ' Thank you for nothing,” Mr Giffen, statist. You are one of thousands of the same kidney, one of a tribe that, can make figures prove anything. Why you should have set yourself the task of traducing the colonies is a bit puzzling, unless you are in the pay ot the “ Financial News ” and the ‘‘ Standard both, eminen' ly veracious and one essentially religious. But why newspaper men of commoni sense should have thought your utterances; worth the cost of transmitting to the emtipodea by cable is past comprehension. The very; great majority of the colonists never.' heard of the name “ Giffen. ’’ before, mid having n >w heard it are not particularly edified! thereby. Any fool can pull to pieces, any fooE can throw mqd to defile, but it is not the fools who built-up, orreinstate maligned reputation Net that the colonies will suffer anything fiorca the utterances of Mr Giffen. Colonists whoknow what these countries: are worth, laugh at them, but they don’t laugh at the tarnation fools of Press Association men, who make the papers they serve pay for such trash as Giffen’* conclusions, and withhold really interesting and instructive news- Colaoial bondholders may

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