LITTLE LESSONS FOR LOCAL POLL.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 75, 1 July 1846, Page 2

LITTLE LESSONS FOR LOCAL POLL.

TICIANS.—No. 1.

An old woman had a stall, on which were plums and pears for sale. A sharp lad asked the price of all the plums and peara she had* She was deaf, and tuld the lad a price, which was in fact the price she would take for the plums. Thu lad wrote down tbe price, and that it was for the piums and the pears both, and got the old woman to set her mark to it, as she could not write. He then to take up the pear<>, but the old woman said "she did not sell them." He would go on to take them. The old woman cried out to the Policeman. When became up, the lad put the paper into his hand ; but he saw from the old woman's mark that she could not write, and he thought she could noi read. So he said—" What did you sell the young man? " Then the old woman told him, she had sold the plums, and the price at which she sold ihern. *■ And a good price too," said the Policeman, "what more can you want for them." Then he said to both of them, " what do you say to the pears." And they did not speak. So he said " the lad should have the plums, and not the pears." Then the lad said :— "Blind Bay and Cloudy Bay bought at the same time by the same dee<ls, with the same goods. Blind Bay acknowledged by the Commissioner himself to have been better bought than any other land in New Zealand, must not Cloudy Bay Live been so too?" (Jan anything be more conclusive? Why Bhould the sharp lad have made any difference. Pears must have been thou"ht then worth more than Plums. Can we doubt that the Policeman should have said the Pears have been bought as well as the Plums. If the case of the New Zea'and Company rested upon such shallow reasoning, it is time for the shareholders todisoive it.