ON DIT.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 14, 6 June 1885, Page 3

ON DIT.

’ “ Prettv Dick,” old Captain Barry's, 'and the bankrupt’s friend, Mr. Joyce’s panegyrist, and the ancient mariner’s tool, has left us to mourn him; but we cannot weep, and only give a sigh—of relief.

There is a wonderful association of luminaries in our midst which “ moves in a mysterious way its wonders to perform.”' Although'not possessing the healing powers of Milner Stephen, it vet aspires, by virtue of its immense intellect and bold prowess, to curing awl the Parliamentary ills which flesh is heir to. The last move of these political geese is to send their main prop and head seranir round in order to induce confiding land owners into signing a petition asking Parliament to tax their land. — Ne suitor ultra crepidam. We take the liberty of calling the “nightsoil” committee’s attention to subsection 14 of the new Police Offences Act, which may solve the Burch difficulty. Where the money goes to!—The annual Audit of the Borough Council costs upwards of £26 — A uditors fees, £lO 10s.; "Returning officers fees for election of same, £4 45.; advertising and printing in connection with election of auditors and ballance sheet about £l2 ; total £2614s

“ Tommy make room for your own child,” was the wail at Waerenga-a-hika on Monday last, and it is expected that the ancient mariner will have to again walk round with the hat in order to defray expenses. The Devil’s prolific brood is rapidly increasing How is it that no notice of the birth has appeared in our contemporay ? Truly the Goddess of Justice, like the majority of our public bodies both corporeal and coporate, in this delightful retreat of sharks and vultures, occasionally takes some strange freaks and bestows her favors in such a very partial manner as to create much occupation for the risible faculties. Fancy the jade instigating her emissaries to bring up before her bar two poor working men culprits w h° had outraged her tender susceptibilities by performing a necessary work in their line of occupation on the Sabbath, whilst harlots were plying their occupations behind the bars of “ boozing kens,” and the elite playing lawn tennis, and the work of shipping cattle, passengers &c., &c., was all going on. Whilst she administers the Law she should think of the Prophets.

To the limb of the law who made such peculiar use of the black bag fhe other cold morning:—

“ o, my word, we’ll not carry coals, No, for then we.should be colliers.”

This days’ telegrams ! ” —We have heard a great deal from our blatant contemporary about being “ members of the Press Association,” and giving “ the latest and most reliable information. As a specimen of the reliability, but more especially the “ latest" nature of their information, we give the following telegram which appeared in last Saturday’s Herald: — CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Mr. Beetham R.M., in sentencing a woman of ill-fame, said he was sorry to see that since the ceased in Christchurch there had been a considerable increase in public solicitation operation of the Contagious Diseases Act of prostitution, which was not confined as formerly to well-known prostitutes, but now included young girls and married women. He considered the sooner the Act was brought into force again the better it would be for everybody. This very telegram (minus the unintelligible confusion in the above which is alone identical and original with the Herald) appeared in the A uckland papers on the previous Tuesday, exactly four days prior to its being clipped out of the exchanges and reproduced in the columns of our deceptive daily as “ this day.”