THAT HOSPITAL AGAIN.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1062, 20 July 1883, Page 2

THAT HOSPITAL AGAIN.

TAE THE EDITOR. There’s much cry and little woo’, As the man said when he dipt the soo. Sir, —There’s been sic a lot o’ correspondince in yer columns o’ late on that tinpat anld shanty ca’ed an hospital, eneugh tae gie folk sair e’en, foreby me “ gassin’ ” aboot it; though maybe you’ll lat this bairn say a word or twa. Yer laug report ses that awfu’ pbwerfu’ body the Gover’raent, wha stan’ as steady as a clothes-horse, will gie na mair than pnnd for pund, which, if na exacerly neglecldn’ ns, is the neist thing til’t. Noo, sir, I dinna belang tae the R.G. S. or ASS order, an’ am not a J.P. (judge o’ pigs), and so canna detail the medical aspec’ o’ the question. Glowerin’ a bit further doon the report I cum’ tao wbar a settler spake on whusky, which pat me in min’ o’ a storie respectin’ a Maori chief an’ a Pakeba. , Here tis, for the edifyeation o’ yer reeders. The white maun sed tae the chief: “It’s a strange thing I canna account fur, why you Maoris git drunk sae much mair than ns white folks?” “ Dee ye think strange o’ that ?” said the auld chief; “ why it’s nae strange at a’. The Maoris think it nae harem to get fou wheniver they can ; but you Pakehas say it's a sin and git drunk a ’ the same !” That isna meant as a hit at onybody. But tao return to the subjict. As you advokated in an edetorial, an Hospital Boord wad be the thing needed, and the meetin’ cum tae that conklnsion, which wis gratifyin’. When Hospital Sabbath cumes roond there’ll be extra thruppenny bits pat in the bag at kirk I’ve nae doobt. ' It’s time to dry up noo, Mr Editur, or yer readers wull be sayin’ they can go tae the druggists if they want an emetic.— Yours, very much &c., Flobby Flurns.