NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1072, 21 November 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Prime Minister is sanguine as to the prospects of the election. To a Dunedin Star interviewer he said ; “ lam of opinion that the genera! prospects of the Liberal Party through the Dominion are exceedingly good. That is my conviction from the information that I have received. I can speak from personal observation as to our prospects in the South. Wherever I have gone in that portion of the country the outlook is distinctly favourable to the government. The people seem to recognise that the election methods adopted by our opponents uouut to misrepresentation. I could give four specific instances of this if it were worth while, and amongst the electors there is a keen feeling of resentment against the tactics of that kind. Our people do like a straight deal in all things, and some of this opposition is not straight.”

Mr J. J. Taine, one of the very few remaining first settlers of Wellington, is again paying a visit to that city. It was in September, 1839, he left Loudon in the Adelaide, (140 tons, with 36 cabin passengers and 140 emigrants, and after calling in at Capetown to settle a slight mutiny among the latter, he arrived in Wellington on 7th February, 1840. There were then anchored between Somes island and Petone the Tory, Gleubervie, Oriental, Cuba, and Duke ol Roxburgh, all ships ot the New Zealand Company, and the following morning a great welcome was tendered to the Adelaide by the natives, who, in three large canoes, with Te Puui and Wharepouri in command, raced wildly round the ship at full speed three times, shouting a vigorous war song of welcome, to the astonishment ot the passengers. Mr Taine, despite his great age, is still enjoying the best ot health.

Mr Rose, editor ot the Natal Witness, has exposed in the Times a gross relic of the anti-British obscenities of the South African war. Fie has found in the socalled South African Museum at Dordrecht, in Holland, a notorious coloured cartoon which represented (Jueen Victoria and King Edward with shameless indecency, now carefully preserved under thick glass. In the same room were pictures from the French, German, Italian and other comic papers, showing our generals and soldiers in a variety ot degrading and indecent postures. Apart from the conduct of the Dutch authorities in permitting this, Mr Rose says that certain Alrikauders propose to transport the show to South Africa, and open it there. The Fligh Commissioner and Trade Commissioner for South Alrica intimate that such a show will not be sanctioned. As Mr Rose says, tne exhibits would certainly not survive 24 hours after the visit of the first South African party.