SLING AND STONE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4773, 26 January 1887, Page 3

SLING AND STONE.

Spread-eagleism ! Thunder and snin.ll beer ! Some Yankee politicians screaming for war with iHngland about a few cod ! Ought to have a taste of war by having the fish knocked about their heads ! Not much chanco of ninety millions of people, two leading nations of the world, and all of one stock and language, getting by the ears about a few miles of wretched brawling ground ! Must be very hard up for a melee if they can't wait for some decent excuse to fight about ! No need to fret, though, about a few j frantic screamers, while the two nations generally remain fairly sane ! Where on earth is N.Z.s credit going down to ? Four per cents at 04£, while Victorias are at 103. What's the meaning of the difference of 8h ? One reason is we've been too Vogeliasimus and borrowed too much ! Victoria has nearly double the people and much less debt ' More and more signs we're at the end of our tether, and a good job too ! Politicians always nailing all sorts of colors to all sorts of masts. Veteran carpet-bagger Parkes nailing Free-trade colors to his ! Just in time, too! Some of 'em over there chasing Protection Jack o' Lantern ! Parkes carrying the war into the enemy's camp, and says instead of more protection he'll have less ! Must be very hard up for decent politicians over there when that old stager has to be fallen back on ! Has long been the bogey to keep other weak Governments in uitice, just as fear of Grey kept in Hall-Atkinson-Whitaker so long ! Poor Wi Brown thrown up the spongo .' Found 'em too many for him sib last ! Made a long running fight, but odds against him too heavy ! Poor Wi ! If some of his friends had been pufc where they ought to be, he would'nt now bo where he ought not to be! This tiling ought to make a good clearing and settling up of lot of things, didn't if* It ought to, and perhaps it may ! Wi's been under the harrow a long time and at last throw it off ! Now somebody else may get a turn ! These Maori filings, though, show the astute aboriginals are thoroughly able to take care of themselves, don't they ? They do as a rule, but poor Wi hasn't been able to take care of himself, else he'd boen a rich man ! That's nothing against the Maoris, though, for many poor Pakehas havo'nt been able to take care of themselves with the odds that Wi had against him ! Gents whore quite impartial in putting whites and browns under the harrow when there's money ! I see some of the Maoris from here are off to Utah I Yes, ready to take refuge anywhere from those who've broke Wi ! Glad even to turn Mormons to escape, and can stand several wives better than some Gisborne chaps ! Case of jumping from the fire back into the pan again ! How will the Pakeha wahines at Utah take to the new converts ? Well, they'll probably think them better anyhow than some of the local white rogues ! He great reform if lazy Maori unable to keep himself here is able to keep half a dozen wives over yonder ! Kapai the Mormons if they can work such a change as that ! Going i going ! going ! going ! But not gone ! Who is it '] Our friend Bawl ! They say he really is going presently ! Shall believe it when I see it ! Been going too long ! ■, Well, anyhow you dont mind the Bri tiahers having a turn of his melodious voice do you, and we getting a rest ! Oh, not in the least ! They can have him ! Only hopo it wont get round 'em as it ha 3 here, Hope in fact their faith wont deepen into credit ! Been too much of that! Perhaps he'll square up afore he goes ! Ah ! Perhaps he will ! Coming ! coming ! coming ! Of course it is ! What is it ? Oil ! Likewise William Smith's money ! Also the millennium ! Bo a close race between all three, and may end in a dead heat ! The betting is even just now on all three ! But about the oil, is it coming ? It's all right, I tell you ! One man is quite satisfied ! Going to leave oft' boring through seats of chairs, and take a turn at boring the earth ! Hold your patience a little longer and see what they can do when they're stirred up and on their mettle ! Well, it'll bo a chance, anyhow, to see 'em on anything besides chairs ! Once more I say " It's all right !" Terrible heat ! Everyone making original remark to that effect ! Well, it might be worse ! Better, anyhow, than having 15 feet of water in Gladstone road, as at Ipswich ! But that might not be an unmixed evil ! Mighb drown a few we'd be better without and give a much-needed washing-out here and there !