One of my Coast imps has sent me the following : The seal of the Wairoa_ County Council is intended to represent a missionaiy handing a scroll of peace, and goodwill, and favors to come, to a Native. Of course, the typical fern free is depicted, and also a steamer in the back ground, to indicate the navigable condition of the Wairoa River. But some of the evil-minded reject the missionary business altogether as being too thin, and insist that the true interpretation of the engraving is a grave and reverend County Councillor pre senting to an unwilling aboriginal a " demand to pay " county rates.
While addressing the House the other even ing, one hon. member apologised for differing in opinion on a legal question from another hon. member who "possessed a deep know ledge of the law." The speaker was the mellifluous M.W. Green, and the member he referred to a gentleman who has just served his time as a lawyer's clerk. Politeness is all very well, but is there not a little humbug in this sort of thing? Perhaps Mr Green was speaking ironically.
