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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 168, 31 March 1903, Page 4

Lord Curzon, the present Viceroy of India, is a man of great resource, as his rule m our eastern empire has proved. When as a young man he went on his private travel to Afghanistan—against the remonstrance of the Indian Government of that day, who believed him to be going to "certain death—he was alive to the risks he was running, and he avoided them by a device which it would have occurred to but very few to adopt. He arrayed himself in the most brilliant and gorgeous uniform that his mind and that of the great military tailor whom he called in to assist him could invent He knew that the Afghans would be only to ready to rob and kill an ordinary traveller, but a splendid being, shining in scarlet and gold, could only be regarded as a -'personage" and one .vith whom it would be dangerous to meddle. The plan worked excellently, and Lord Curzon went unscathed where no European before him had ever ventured.

Mr Rudyard Kipling has been asked to contest a Cape constituency, but has declined. He says that he is no politician.

In Chiistchurch, cyclists who offended against the City by-laws are now fined 20s and costs, the S.M., remarking that recent flagrant breaches of the law indicated the necessity for imposing substantially increased' penalties. -

A smart beggar has hit on a novel plan of raising the .vind. Begrimmincr his face, he walks into a " crowded barbel's shop, and begs the use of a little soap and water. While washinghe talks pathetically on the hardships of poverty, which d.. not even allow a man to keep himself clean. Few can resist his sermon on "cleanliness is next to godliness/' no matter how '-broke" a man may be. A collection follows. But it is awkward for the smart beggar when next day he meets in another barber's shop one of the customers of the previous day. So it happened last week.

A man who is out of work was offered a day's work at Dunedin, but refused it because he had to attend a meeting of the unemployed. On the strength of mortality statistics prepared by the Government of the province of Ontaiio it is claimed that Ontario is the healtniest place in the world. The death-rate last veawas 13.6 per 1000. But most of "the deaths are of infants and elderly peopleThe death-rate of the great clas.s between infancy and fifty-five years of age is only six per 1000. This is a death-rate for the working period of hfe lower than that of any country in the world.

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