DULCE EST DESIPERE IN LOCO!

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 18

DULCE EST DESIPERE IN LOCO!

TO THE EDITOR. Sm, —It is delightfully refreshing to see men high in office throwing asido the haughty austerity and stiffness generally pertaining to their exalted official positions, and become natural beings in their bonhomie and gallantry amongst their fellow-creatures, especially those they immediately govern, thus firmly welding together a united brotherhood, for a universally beneficial community of interest! Such was the genial object and motive the Hon Premier and his equally gallant colleague the Hon Postmaster-General had in their social intercourse with their subordinates and friends at the Post and Telegraph officers' social reunion held at the General Post Office on Saturday night. They were a joyous, happy coterie; no stand oft' frigidity, nor nauseating mistaken hauteur reigned there; but easy natural politeness and grace, combined with blithesome, cheerful merriment, and a frank dum vivimus viva* mus air, together ousted snobbery and pompous haughtiness effectually, therefore the Post Office social gathering passed off, as all other similar gatherings should do everywhere, with bonhomie, enjoyment and great eclat. Mr Seddon, the Premier, was in his happiest mood, and delivered one of the most felicitous, humorous and best

social speeches, that tho most highlycultured and refined might have envied, and would do well to emulate, because it was genuine, hearty and sincere, with no specious veneer about it, all having tho sonorous ring of homely, cheering,thorough good-fellowship, which greatly charmed and impressed his appreciative and delighted hearers with its sound-heartcd-ness! Cordiality and tho sweetest harmony prevailed, as ovidenced by .the happy, beaming faces, and the gleeful 'mingling of cheery voices, tho joyful company singing and dancing near on to midnight, when all dispersed refreshed, happy and contented, with brighter prospects to cope with tho closo sedentary and important work to bo performed for tho public, essentially pro bona publico, in that thoroughly business-like and most effectivo department, General Posts and Telegraphs, far-reaching in its Governmental, private and commercial service, and its varied ramifications on tho face and in tho bowels of the earth, and under the depths of tho calm, raging, turbulent ocean, day after day, year in and year out, at all hours! Rejoicing, all wended their various ways for June 10. Dulce " Domum "\ !!