"A BOUNDER."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 May 1907, Page 4

"A BOUNDER."

The following letter appears in the Napier Telegraph: Mr Churchill's criticism of colonial manner* is so absurd and audaciously false ami mischievous, the unity, fate and future of the British Empire is so | completely dependent on the administration of the War Office and on this issue of preferential trade the future of Australasia demands so urgently that goodwill and a complete understanding shall exist between New Zealand and Australia—that 1. who know the truth, beg you to print it for the public good and in defence of Australia's statesmen smarting under the insults of a "bounder," and now exposed to the ill-timed, uninformed remarks of your Minister for Education.

Those personally acquainted with Mr Churchill, those who went to school with him and remember how often he had to be "licked for cheek," will know that '•like gets like," and that Australia's Premier has only been roused to retaliate by Mr Churchill's own ill-bred impatience and egotism. But those who do not know him personally will be interested to learn something more of the man's real inner self. In the middle of Mr Deakin's reply to his speech, Mr Churchill got up and left the Conference "'to be swomMn as a Privy Councillor." So the cable read. 1 feel confident that Mr Churchill inspired that particular cable and timed the oath so dramatically.

When Lord Roberts' army marched into Vcntersburg after forcing a passage of the Rand River we rushed the only pub. in the place and it was Winston Churchill who shouted loudest for liquor and insisted on his claim to preferential treatment as "the son of Lady Churchill." He then went out into the street and then threatened to kick a poor old pm-Roer Britisher who differed with him on politics. In Pretoria he vent into a barber's shop for a shave after hours and threatened the proprietor with the Provost Marshal if ho did not get to work. Xow his policy imperils the Empire, lie poses as a critic of manner*, as the champion of proBoers, of an eight-hours day, and possibly of prohibition. Put do not let itbe sai.l that he causes dissention amongst colonial statesmen. I saw what I relate;.—l am, etc., EUSTACE LAN 32, Fellow War Correspondent.