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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4254, 7 November 1874, Page 3

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TELEGRAM TO SUPERINTENDENTS. [By Piokojt Express.] Bless you, my children ! Live for ever ! Macaulay's New Zealander on London Bridge will be a Superintendent. Trust in Provincialism and sell land; — especially unreclaimed land. Cash first and reclamation afterwards. Borrow much and spend more. Greatness always draws on posterity. Draw, then ! Six infant nations (see. Constitution Act) depend wholly on you for nourishment. Freedom appeals to you for protection from the dagger of despotism. Farewell, progenitors of presidents ! I have just heard there are Constitution Amending Acts. Of course, if they amend they must render provincial institutions, if possible, more secure, but I may as well look at them. Pray send mo copies, and credible information current at corners of streets about Vogel. * Send telegrams (collect) direct to the Throne, reviewing origin and progress of local selfgovernment in the world, and its perfection in provincial institutions in New Zealand. Parliament will vindicate your birth-right, and pay the. cost of the telegrams. Kawaumustbe relieved from taxation for local and general purposes, otherwise I shall petition Her Most Gracious Majesty to constitute it an independent province, with myself as Governor and Superintendent of the samo. My presence [Here the writing is obliterated for several lines, by reason of the wind that .blew and the rain that beat against that Bird of Ereedom in

his incontinent flight from the Kawau Hermitage to the chief seat of Superintendentalism in Wellington. When captured, the bird was greatly exhausted by reason of the weight of the message of State of which he was the bearer. Perfect repose at the Hutt, it is hoped, will quite restore him. Indeed, his captors expect that he will be in full feather and ready for a return flight in a few days.]