THE EXTRAVAGANT KAISER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 18, 5 March 1915, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE EXTRAVAGANT KAISER.

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, in ,: T.P.'s Journal of Great Deeds of the Great War," brings out very vividly one outstanding feature of the character of the Kaiser. "The Kaiser has forty royal palaces—forty! Tim reminds me that, according to one of lis biographers, he is at once the most extravagant, and. consequently, the most chronically impecunious, monarch in Europe. He hVs a Civil List of a million a year, and plenty of property—breedlag studs, |l|)ttery works: \v.-i landed e.stat.s alone amount to a quarter of a mill'on acres, and arc eighty-three in number. But forty palace.;! And these palaces ar being constantly visited ana th? preparations for a visit ar? so freq.unt and so abrupt that £ho whole Court is always in a state of fever.

"THE GUARDIAN OF THE WEAK.'

The- Canadian Government has reeeiv. Ed offers of men and mon-ey from almost every tribe of Indians in Canada as an expression of their desire "that Great Britain may still remJtin the guardian of the weak and fhe arbiter of the world's peaee." The phrase qaol.'d is that 0 f a resolution passed by the Blood Indians at a meeting of the tribe, which unanimously voted £2OO from the tribal funds, to he used in any way that was necessary. Th? resolution was signed by chiefs "Shot Doth Sides'' and "Ermine Horses.'' This ivs typical of s'mihr resolutions and donations from 17 other Indian trib'-s. from the Yukon to Nova Scotia. In all. they have contributed some £2300 to the Government to I>2 used at its discretion for lbs .Majesty's fortes. Many of the Indians have asked to he .sent to the front in person.

MONTREAL RENAMES ITS STREETS.

Th admiration aroused in th? Prov- ' ince of Quebec by the heroic light put up by the I'-ttlo kingdom of Belgium against a mighty and ruthless foe h,v> found expression in Montreal, the commercial capital of this Province--in tin ' renaming of several streets after fainI ou.s Belgian cities. Antwerp. Liege, and i N'amur are among the cit'es thus singled I out for honour. Oth.'f stl'-ets have been rcchn-stened after ami* of the great railitarv leaders-French. J off re. and i Pan- who ar« eonducting the campaign j in L-'ranc/e. Over 400 families ar.> being I cared for out of the Franco-Belgian j branch oi the Canadian Patriotic Cum!. QUITE IRISH. Two Irishmen arranged to light a duel I with psiob. One of them wee- distinct. I ly stout, and when h'o saw his lean adi Versary facing him he ra : s?d an objeI turn. " 13 dad!" he said. "I'm fwiee as big I a target as lie is. so 7 ought to stand I twice' :■ ■ far ew.iy from him as he is • from me." - i;,. : ,--y now." repli d his secr.nd. j " I'll sonn put ui.u right." i ! Taking a piece of chalk from his pne-j ket. he drew two lines down the : fu: ; | uian', coat, leaving a spue. between j | then.. , , •■ \ ~.- " he aid. Uirniitsr kn the oilier [ I man "lire awnv je *V*¥:™- "•"! .['\' j j m,,; >- T that any hits oii'sul.' .! U.U.* , j lino don't count." two Asprcrs: Two s-.Mi rs were coiivi r-'ng. '■'•■■ •••■' ,-i C. ■ other whal mid • h m e;i!i-'. j ' -Yi'liy I ha l no wife and ehil.liou- 1 uooi.ob-amy.clitoih-.keiiandl ■ Kid ; .< | i i-■ ■; war. leu how came y-m 1■• ien th Minvr" I -V'e'i v u si-e 1 had a v.T«. and 1 : .i„ne! iheaiunybeeiuivjlik^peace.-l \T!:V M< KI.Y. 1!V :, ~] ,-n.-..- bn-1: from _ a j '••[ |m|i> von had a pi asnnl holiday," j ~.,;! i„ ,- nrVfrt"--. "Y.-s. thouk yea mum." ■-'! >li'rv. "1 he-.:- there is a new cemetery il your villas'v' . . ■■ V s thank veil mum : it is a lovely place ' and is' filling "P vjry nicely. mum.' 1 \