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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 333, 25 April 1885, Page 3

Having made this extraordinary revelation, he went away with his bosom swelling with conscious rectitude to head a deputation to receive the Hon. Sobert Stout, our Liberal Premier. Anybody who knows Cambridge and the competencies showmen generally retire upon, after visiting the place, will not be surprised that such a wideminded person should exist there ; but, to our thinking, he does not go far enough. We should recommend the construction of a substantial wall round the town, with one small gate, at which a guard could be placed, with strict orders to exclude visitors who came with the avowed intention of making money, while those who simply intended disbursing could at once be sent, under an escort, to the store of the gentleman in question. That, in the Grospel according to the party whose name rhymes to Strongton, is evidently the idea a beneficent Providence had in view in creating the Waikato. It is strange that the ideas of this wonderful being, who, by the way, is a Bapist and Blue Ribbon man— an appalling combination— should not find an echo in the hearts of his brother members of committee, their views on the subject being diametrically opposed to his ; but, in the language of a certain popular advertisement, " the bad and worthless are never imitated." Let us hope, howevevr, that his efforts will meet with the success they deserve, and that he will continue to flourish like a " green baize " tree.