West Coast Sarcasm.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 March 1910, Page 4

West Coast Sarcasm.

ME CAULK XKWS SUPPLY

The "West Coast Times" .satirically observes that it has had occasion oncL> before to refer to the quality of cable- news that finds its way to Now Zealand from the older countries. Whoever is responsible for the extraordinary and "wonderful" items that are sent out to the colonial press from the other side of the world, we cannot compliment the sender for his ability to guage the pulbic mind as to what it considers "news." With the whole world to draw from the cable man apparently can procure nothing Dc'tter than some trifling episode that in New Zealand would hardly Lj wired from' one town to another. And yet a glance at the Home papers shows that news is there in abundance. We have hurled at us in all their horrid details, romance, tragedies, a'Jid gleanings from the sidetracks of life, that are too obviously common to even nerd passign reference. Apparently "the councils of the nations" in the eyes of tho f-ai)le man, are of but secondary importance. Whenever an opportunity presents itself to garner a "tit-bit"—in itself of no intrinsic i value—the cable man is there.