Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 74, 9 August 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

lhat the defeat of Dick Anist by Ernest Barry was a staggerer to Australasians. fhat "on paper" it was dollars to doughnuts, pounds to pennies, guineas to gooseberries, and all the other extremes of odds of hackneyed quotation that the Triton of Taitapu would repeat his Zambesi victory. That not every time is a good big mail superior to a good little man, even in sculling. Ulat i)iek will have his revenge on the occasion of tueir next test of skill, Strength, stamina and speed, which will probably be on the historic Par-ra-fflftttft, or'maybe the "Wanganui. that "the Girl Who Knew a Bit" is the title of a new play purchased for Australasian presentation by i Manager \Vm. Anderson, of MclI bourne. I that the heroine must be the ChristI church girl who preferred jail to enI taring a religious homfc, as narrated I in "H.E.H.V notes of last issue. I feat war is a mere business proposiI tioh *ith the rich. Ifhat if th* patriotism of the monied I manufacturers of armaments was of three-ply and all-wool quality PHfc# wotM absolutely refuse to build I and ships to the order of any I Yireigti nation whatever. Miitet isfieTe is ho tilling when any two I nations, standing in the relation of I bianufftSrfurer And customer, may be I at war with ond another, and the I £uns and the ships made by one for I the other be trained and vised against I fellow-countrymen of the designers H feud builders thereof. Hifot it is quite possible, for- instance, H lhat the latest Dreadnought built for by an English firm may in the future be employed against dependencies, or against herself. contractors, too, if they posanY real, genuine patriotism, see that their country's solhad the best in the way of food, aild equipment that it was to supply them with. "tl*. evident* of .r<?c**t times, peace, goes to shqtr thr.t thing in t«e wJiy of clothing and any rotten stuff fofft of fafcM food, is consici|&ajgi*H*jgJg§im off" α-i &"'« TfTjCpe. "^ fti'at 'tive patriotism of the army ron- ■ tmctor is truly ?. weird and wonderful thine,—-as shoddy fis "the goods h<? tra.ioi- off and makes a fortune out at , *flmv the story in hut week's "In our Opinion" of' Hip Chicago mnn who , wan gabberflasted al; a Ijcndon rrception on account of the broad sound ■ given to the vowel "a" by his -hostpes ixfid her friends recalls an Australian illustration bearing upon the same point. flint most WotiKEH readers know of. if thby have not seen rind heard, that qus'iht find distinctive bird, the AnstraTiaVi Icookabufra. f l:ut a certain .lady of our acquaintaiico nciilf arrived in "the Commonwoalth, k was prof'eswdly shocked at the coionial pronunciation oi' the name, ey M \vnich that 'feathered funniosity is ■ ■ommtfnly designat--';": T:iict, as proflounced, jncknss st'rurk upon her eardrum with on awfully sotifid, so she always referred to it as "Johnnie-bottom," and insisted upon her children and friends <loing likewise. _ ' That the Albanian exiled prince now in our midst cot film home on the New Zealand snailways in the course of a Master ton lecture. That in his country, said he, the means of tra"fcs#b¥t was by horse and camel, in this Dominion it •>■.'■- l>\ train and coach. Thfi f there was this difference in fovor of* his thfe darnel proce«&ad at a little faster pace than the New Zealand express trains. That the policy of the Middleman Ministry of Queensland is summed up, by the Brisbane "Worker" as one of Butter. Bludgeon, and Boodle. "THrtt the 'Butter is the cheapest description known to the political market, and consists of oleaginous phrases concerning the "remarkable of the State, the "boundloss opportunities of further development," and the "period of exceptional progress" upon which, it is said, l the country is about to oritnr. Wliat tho Bludgeon is exemplified in the B' apotheosis t of Cfjthmißsioner Cahill, who is to have direct control of the force with a "substantial inin pay; in legislation deprivthe workers of the liberty to Jγ knock off work When the conditions ,do 'not suit them ; and in the augmentation of a military police force to be let loose nt the toilers when ihey do down tools in spite of antifreedom laws. •That Boodle is prominent in every announcement of Ministerial intentions, ■ihie'f-'bf Which is the flotation of a big loan, the success of which is to !be ensured by the payment of nn exorbitant rate' of interest to Shylock. ;the pursuit of this particular phase of the Denhatn policy will be marked by another sequence of B's— ilorrow, Boom and Burst.