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NZ Truth, Issue 141, 29 February 1908, Page 5

| Mr Jack, of the Public Trustees office, was m Manaia last week paying out the half-yearly rents due to the "Maoris. As a result the recipients were to attend the Hawera races m lar? 0 numbers. "It was a regular Maori meeting," remarked a local resident to a ' 'Waimate Witness" reporter: "I could count almost three Maoris to one European," he added. Once more for the sport of Kings and dagoes ! . Rockefeller's favorite text is /'The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." On this text he recently preached a sermon, which elicited a large correspondence, many of the writers pointing out that the same Psalm contained an equally appropriate text— to wit :.. "He anointeth mv head with oil, and my cup runneth over." His favorite hymn is, "What a friend we have m Jesus." A boy sang this hymn so feelingly at a Baptist Sunday school that Rockefeller was moved to tears, and wrote out a cheque sufficient to pay all the boy's education expenses and eivo him a start m life when he was twenty-one. ilf he's only come to Wellington "Critic" would do Ms Jamdest to move the old balrt-hcad to tears. The blasphemous old brute.