tika was at the time of its inception, great responsibilities were thrust on those in power. That they used their positions wisely and well we may gather from the esteem in which they were held and the smoothness with which matters took their course. “Friends depart and memory takes them to her caverns pure and deep,” and a memorial will be an outward and visible reminder stirring the depths of memory as to the services performed for the public weal. Hokitika had a romantic beginning and its past is becoming embalmed in the dreams of memory. Let us with memorials and the records of history help to keep the story extant, for—
“Though varying wishes, hopes and fears,
Fevered the progress of those by-gone years,
Yet now, days, weeks, months but seem
The recollection of a dream.”
