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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1910, Page 3

In resopnso to an advertisement calling lor twelve lull-blooded negroes for the "The Brass Bottle,'' a forthcoming J. C. Williamson production in Sydney, a .lMMii'ber of dusky applicants 'presented themselves at the stage door of Her Majesty's. One of tiliioir number, who was advanced in years, and had tlio respect of his (toni patriots as a man of learning, gavo free expression of his opinion of the pugilistic encounter at Reno City, news of the result* of which had just 'been annoiiinced to liiiin (says tha "Telegraph"). _ "I'm not at all iproud of tilJis fighiting business," he declared; "1 don't want us to bo foremost in brutality. What I mould like to seo would be that the African negroes had produced an intellectual champion, one as "superior to tilie white men mentally as Johnson lias proved himself to bo superior, oliysicaillv. That is how we will , btT recognised and placed on eciuality with tho white races. It is when wo oroduce a gret scientist that I will feel proud. Johnson is only-whero the whito man was centuries ago. If ho_ had' discovered radium I would think ltiim tlio greatest black man who ever lived, but I don't feel elated at his having punched a bcilcr-rnak-er until he rendered him insensible."