THE MILENNIUM AT KAWAU.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 97, 22 July 1882, Page 291

THE MILENNIUM AT KAWAU.

Halelujah! We knew it was coming. The Anglo-Israelites have been right after all, and J all their abstruse algebraic formulas and prophetic interpretations on the great pyramid, the horned beasts, the golden candle,-sticks, the image . of brass with the feet of clay, and the symbolical, allegorical, and phantasmagorical signs and wonders will soon become as clear as mud. Already the hon of Kawau lies down with the lamb of - The Towers." Some of our politicians will soon be able to dip their hands into the cockatrice den with the same impunity as they now go in for *" Hands all Round," in respect to the Treasury. He who held up Sir George Grey to ridicule in the City East election, who depicted him as something akin to a dangerous lunatic .at large, with a •strong admixture of Communism, . Nihilism, and Fenianism thrown in, now condescends to visit the tight httle Island, of the man who -declared that the visitor ought to be banished from civilized .society. Behold what a goodly thing it is for brethren to dwell together -in peace ! Here is a noble text for some of our preachers who are languishing of intellectual inanition, and what some of the country editors call " a paucity of ■pabulum."

,- ■ . — ,s, There is something peculiarly touching in the reconciliation of two such great men as Mr Clark and Sir George Grey. ■ Like Achilles and Agamemnon they unite at the call of patriotism, reswear eternal friendship, and bury 'their past difficulties ih oblivion. " But this, no more the subject of debate, Is past, forgotten, and resigned to fate." Instead of shooting arrows of sarcasm at the Tonight of Kawau, Mr Clark goes down to pot his - deers and pheasants. This is as it should be. It is one of the maxims of Rochefoucauld that "Men are not only prone to forget benefits ancl injuries ; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured •them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which "they are unwilling to submit." There is only one thing wanting to complete this affecting picture — the hon. the Attorney-General standing with outstretched palms over the reconciled pair exclaiming " Bless ye my children !" . _$—