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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3

THE BRITISH AND THEIR HOBBIES. “The British have much to teach us iu the wise use of our leisure hours. With them the hohhy is a mark of distinction. Such enthusiasms suggest a very high stage of civilisation. The one characteristic clearly distinguishing mail from the licasts is his pursuit of the unessential, his love tor the extraneous, his passion for the, genetically unimportant. Who can imagine a polar hear trying to go farthest north, or a marmot climbing to get the view from the mountain top. or a bird distinguishing trees by their annual shedding of leaves, or a monkey attempting to understand the language of the parrots. 1 or the seals playing ball oil the Pribiloff Islands. Yet every one of these creatures feverishly limits his food, works to protect himself from the weather, and from his enemies, and, like tlio American industrialist, dies promptly when he retires from his regular business in life.”—Cornelia James Cannon in the “North American Review.” THE BRITIsft IN CHINA. “British policy must seek to remove legitimate grievances by negotiation with an authority with whom negotiation is possible. That appears to bo the course which His Majesty’s Government are pursuing. Tt may lie regarded in some quarters as, unnecessarily limitd, but by no legitimate use of words can it be described as provocative or aggressive.’’—-“The Times” (London),