NEW ZEALAND GLOBE TROTTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 7 February 1907, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND GLOBE TROTTERS.

(To ihe Editor.) Sir.—One coual nut help being highly limited by muling in Monday's "News" tin- paragraph rolativ.; to the trip nnuie uo England by "W. J, Napier. ilic wetf-knowu AuckHrnU soli-i cilor." According to tliis modest co loniiil tile House of Parliament are really in a bail way. iJo says among oilier tiling-:—"Debating poor; the Dill;,' of X , intelligent farmer, not too well informed; Karl of L lias lio power of leadership; the young I Moods are a poor lot intel k-ctuaUy; llmw of Lords has nu rules of debate; ] uiiiiKt f>dt inclined In call out from my place in tin 1 gallery and tell ilicin what to do; di-appointed with House *of t'»>nimun.->; ni.-n I thought poiticai demigods turned out to lie common clay; OppoMlinu leaders not always w formed mediocrities; JUiildan'i and Asijuiili \vil probably .soon Ik* shunted from Liberal Ministry; Ijulfmir a frost!!" etc..etc. This i.s alifiHb; a* goo:! as that other modest Aueklander who 011 seeing English cricket, and considering it slow, said lie lvally must do for cricket wliut In: iiad don;* fur tennis! And now comes the headmistress of tile New Plymouth High School and gives the- poor House of Commons another whack by telling a newspaper that it spenks bad English. Jt's really too bad. 'the poor thin- hasn't a chance. However, the laugh (or cry) is not all 011 one side. | . v . , . To he serious. Thci debate Mi-s Cirant heard was 011 the Truck Act. a <|uestion likrily to be spoken to ciiielly by the Labor men in the iloiiac, few of whom claim to have had anv education whatever.—]. *•». v mm AN EXGLISIIIIAJi.