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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 389, 14 March 1908, Page 4

- If ever the world produces another Shakespeare, according _to Dr Prudy, it will be a combination bf a Celt and a Maori. Speaking at a meeting last week of the Te Ante Association the District Health Officer urged that it should never be allowed to be said, in time to come, that the Maoris were degenerate descendants of a decadent race. Rather it was to be hoped that the best traits of the Maoris, his courage, courtesy, good breeding, eloquence and poetry, would be preserved for all time. New Zealand has developed the highest of native races, and he was optimistic enough they would evolve the highest type of the human race. What had been achieved the in field ot sport should be equalled the field of art and science. What literature New Zealand could claim was associated with the Maori. Might they not, in the words of Dr. Pomare, have “ a combination of the white man’s more prosaic mind, and the poetic Maori trend.”

A large, bony, black horse, with a cloudy sleepy eye, was standing between the shafts of a four wheeler, at Prince’s Bridge, Melbourne, one day during the heat wave. It was noticed that the horse seemed prostrated by the heat from his woe*begone, limp appearance, and in consequence it elicited a considerable amount of sympathy from by-standers. Suddenly the animal drooped more than ever, and with a convulsive nod of the head fell at full length in the road. Half a dozen men ran to its assistance, and proceeded to lopSeri its collar, undo the breeching* braces, and traces, and generally to treat it like a man in a fit. The driver was, however, missing. While someone went to look for him, he turned up from another direction to inquire what the matter was. “ Matter ! ” said a perspiring “first -aider,” “your horse is down, you idict.” “ Oh, no, he ain’t,” replied the cabby; “ it’s only old Tom at his tricks again. He always falls asleep about this time, and I tickles his nose with a pipe feather, and he gets up again. See.” And the feather was applied, the horse rose sleepily, and the kindly helpers retired, mopping their faces, warm and crestfallen and annoyed. “He ought to put a notice up,” grumbled one.

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