NIL DESPERANDUM.
To tke Editor of the '■ Colonist
Sib,—Saunders has hot buttied Monro this time. How daintily he writes aTb^olit the Doctor! Is the sky going to fall?; tqiget a He-; quisitioh signed ,"b& sun^ry.^wpSi, this dusty swos tries to- write: and'talk disagreeing and agreeing with a canijy S^ofr whdin he formerly ibu&a.^Tet; ha^MdfiiWjh^^at^ll ? Not lie. But he; has improved his jtactinflattfetingone whom: he cordially.despises.' ■'•/A littlenotice, an od.d visit, or so, has quite mollifieid 'the man so exquisitely pictured aa Chaucer's'Mulerj And now,- S.ir, when t\\et)ocior,t}\e eiiemy-of cheapjand to the working man —the opponent of credit to poor land buyers in any shape-—the man who patronizes a splendid, College, when so many cannot get schools better thansheds for houses —when oneof the accused, selfconstituted College Governors comes .forward —' the accusing Saunders conies forward too, and talks—pisbi he, talks abo\it Monro as a body carrying all the soul of the province, Grinder, among the' rest. I did expect you would have said something about ratting Saunders in Friday's issue, but'l suppose, simple souls, you Colonist bodies imagined he was a-going to work marvels for us-all-at Auckland. Did you so? Well, now, if you did, you are what Monro would call, in one of his patent figures, "verdant" indeed. Saunders at Auckland ! At the end of the table of the Assembly, and with his modest eyes looking unutterable things—only think of that! Why the absurdity is enough to make Monro himself laugh fit to break a blood vessel! ' But, Sir. what will South Waimea think? What will Robinson's supporters think ? What will Mr. Simmonds think? .And Mr. Baigent, these staunch friends of the people,iand the coadjutors, no less than peers, of this great gun of the laboring class? Wh'at.'.will the Forty Line Bridge itself think? Or, what is,, equally-wooden and gifted, the Examiner, Saunders,lauglyng flatterer, when1 the rough champion of working men smoothly declines opp«ing the rejected of Waimea W.est—the rejected from the Superintendency ( Think I Pooh '.—They will not be so generous as to afford him a thought. Enough. Fare ye well. An Admirer op Forty Line Bridge. Wairaea South, May 22.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Colonist, Issue 62, 25 May 1858, Page 2
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