THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1868

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23941, 17 October 1939, Page 11

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." [Established November 15, 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1868

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

The indignation we are apt to feel whenever we find ourselves misrepresented in the mother country is natural enough. The discovery that we are not so well known and not so highly esteemed as we thought we were, is extremely mortifying; but at the same time it acts as a decided check to our conceit. It takes some time to convince even the most enlightened men in the colonies that neither the Government nor the people of Great Britain know anything about us. . . . The very deserts of Africa with their gorillas and lions are more familiar to the English mind than the most popular cities in the Southern seas. . . . Nothing will convince the mass of the colonists that they are really unknown and uncared for by ■ their fellowcountrymen on the other side of the globe. They grumble at no injury that may be done—they kick at no insult that may be offered. They submit with exemplary patience to all the arbitrary caprices of the Colonial Office, and they rejoice with frantic exultation over any little evidence of Royal regard. Tears of injury and neglect are wiped out from the memory in a moment, by the distribution of a few tenth-rate honours among the leading colonists, or the passing visit of a Prince. The discovery, brought to light in the House of Representatives by Mr Potts, that the imports from New Zealand into the United Kingdom for the first quarter of 1867 are estimated by the Board of Trade returns at L2O is an appropriate illustration of the attention paid to this colony by the Imperial Government,