AN UNREPRESENTATIVE NEW ZEALANDER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 August 1901, Page 4

AN UNREPRESENTATIVE NEW ZEALANDER.

Oar London correspondent, writing on Jane 29ch, says:—“Referring to the Royal tour in Now Zealand and tho war, Mr W. G. Whittaker, of Auckland, writes to the leading pro-Boer paper in London. Commenting on the fact that the Duke of Cornwall speaking at Wellington, New Zealand, thanked the inhabitants for the devotion which had been displayed by tho colony in regard to the war,’ Mr Whittaker says:—‘Will you allow me, sir, as one who happens to know a little more abovt that “devotion,” and tho moiivcs a id interests that evolved it than his Royal Highness tho Duke of Cornwall, to say a few words on the subject ? Spc iking with a knowledge of N. Zealand extending over a quarter of a century, I do not hesitate to say that I believe that that democratic colony will never again, under similar circuni3tashcs, give a man or a shilling in telpingto cruJi a bravo people, with whom wo never had a cause for quarrel, and struggling for everything that New Zealand holds dear. There was •spontaneity about the assistance given in tho first instance. It was worked up by the Imperial-hlast-blowing Cabinet, three of whoso members have, at ibe hands of the Duke, received their reward 1 ’ I hope that some of the loval Now Zealanders who are thus misrepresented will have something to say to Mr Whittake.”

of a tree that was so high that it took two men to see over the top of it. One looked as far as ho could, and the other started looking where the left off! And,” added Max, “I never met a German yet who could see the joke I' 1 “Joke I’’ replied the Teuton, “that’s not a joke; it’s a d - d lei”