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O(NIIBYGAMBA.
REJOICE 'GAnllAB s.-1The budget sp, ech
announces a surplus over expenditure of
more than two millions. What mwatter if
it has accrued from a further saurifi:e of thoe
pIepcle's patrimony ? MaLy W? not now
reasonably excpcct that-if no? ourselves
our children, wil be nabled *to traverse
the dark and slippery way," i.e., the ferry
.steps, when visiting thi second city beneath
the refulgent rlays of a kerosene limp ? or,
what would b! more to tlhe point, an Edis.n
ilare. \Wit hnhu above tidy little nest-ego,
there cant be no plea of want of funds;. and,
nu doubt as soon as the poEiershave dis
'ovured .that the savihg in coroners' fees
from "foind drowned," cases .wll ..more.
than recoup. the cost, of an extra light or
two at certain points, the Lhing will be
done some time within the two remaining
decades'of this'present century.
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