WAIMATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 942, 24 April 1879, Page 2

WAIMATE.

[FROM OUR OVTX CORRESPONDENT.] We are suffering from constriction of the financial ducts. Yet the complaint is not so virulent here as in other places that I might mention were it not for giving offence to you and others ; and it has proved fatal in but few instances. You want a cattle doctor in Oamaru ; if you will allow me to fall hack upon the derivation of the word pecuniary (pecus, cattle), we have a veterinary surgeon, or a pecuniary medico, here at present. He is not, however, so far as I know, the man you '"want," and, to tell you the truth, we could do very well without him ourselves. He is excessively attentive, and hold 3 a levee every day, to which he invites the i sufferers. I have not been there my= self ; but those who ought to know say that the chilly air of bis reception-room, occasioned by the proximity of so much gold, produces ague in those that are not accustomed to the sensation. But these attacks are only intermittent, and one usually feels hot enough before leaving the precinots of the doctor's room. The modus operandi adopted by the doctor is not homoeopathic, but decidedly allopathic, and, if he finds that his patient

has gone too far, with a strong belief in the "survival of the fittest," he unceremoniously knocks him on the head: He has not met with any cases here necessitating such treatment yet, and it is to be hoped that he will not do so. But, setiously, we are all hoping that some auspic'ous breeze will arise to blow away the affection from which we are suffering. Really, you can hardly get 20s for a pound ribte here, cash is actually preferred to bills, and I must confess that I would rather have a sovereign than a bank notq. The banks are piling on the agony rather too thickly just now, and when they will not discount our good paper, we should pay them back in their own coin by refusing to take their notes. Dear me, it would appear that the fever is subsiding, only to make way for acute financial asthma.