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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3851, 20 November 1883, Page 2

The educated Maori will have to put his best foot foremost if lie does not wish to ho eclipsed altogether by the educated Kaffir. The latter is going ahead with most commendable sliced, He has already got as far us having a newspaper of his own, and this journal appears to contain the civilised refinement of matrimonial advertisements. A Port Elizabeth newspaper gives ns a specimen of one of these advertisements which appeared in the Insigidimi during last month :—Marriage : " The advertiser, a Kaffir, begs to announce to all girls that he wants a good looking spinster to he joined with him in holy matrimony, pho must be of average height, of bright copper color, age between seventeen and twentyone years. The qualifications required are that she is efficient in book learning, and a thorough good hand at all domestic work. The advertiser is tired of eating stamped mealies and unleavened bread. He is of ordinary height, 25 years of age, pretty, with a good moustache. In stock and property ho is. worth £135, has a healthy constitution and strong arms. Ho understands Low to work. The girl who, on reading this advertisement, may choose to accompany him through thick and thin in tins life, may depend upon her choice. Those willing to reply to this advertisement must enclose their photos, that will ho submitted to the advertiser and his friendly advisers for selection therefrom. Rejected, photos will bo returned after the decision is come at. " Pennies" (very short girls) need not appty. Address, "A.8.0., Port Elizabeth." "We are not going to comment," says the Port Elizabeth journalist, "lint we may remark that the natives aro certainly advancing."