HERE AND THERE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 27 November 1907, Page 4

HERE AND THERE.

'•The man who sticks at this game for more than live years is a mug," said the Mayor of Karon, referring to municipal duty. "This game ain't what it's cracked up to be," is Sir Joseph Ward's candid opinion about the Premiership, especially when members show a disinclination to replace the divorce farce with at least a decent comedy. ''Too much yaeker and not enough baceer onthis job." murmurs the Chief Justice, commenting on his arduous round of judicial duty. "Bust 'em all. I'm going to chuck it," ejaculates the Minister of' Labour , when Labour is playing football with his Arbitration Act Amendment Hill. "A bloke M need to lie made of quids to ante up to all the yells for buodle," wails the Minister of Education. The "English" of the Mayor of Karon actually happened. The other examples are fanciful, and quoted as instances of what we may expect soon. A brave boy lost his life at Warren, Now South Wales, (lie other week. His father's house was enveloped in (lames, and eventually was completely destroyed by lire. Whilst the lire was at Its height, the boy twice rushed through the blinding smoke to try and secure the bodies of his sister and little brother, who had both perished. He carried out the-charred remains of his sister, who was three or four years older than himself, and, returning, managed to bring from the cottage the body of his little brother, three years old. He then ran to the house of a friend, near by, but his exertions had been too much for him, and the heroic little fellow here expired. The visitor to Tasmania can have an experience that is novel—lie can call on the last of the native race of the land. She is Trucaninni, and she holds receptions in a glass case in the National Museum. There is only the skeleton left, but, judging from ' that, she was a well-organised little woman of about four feet in height. The Tasmanian aborigine was a clean sort of person, moving every day, so as not to have the dirt or ashes of yesterday in his camp. The mode was uncut hair for men, shaved heads for women. Both wore at times a necklace, and also on occasions tied a strip of fur round the calves of their legs. They seemed to get along very well with this, even though the winters were very cold. When Trucaninni had disappeared (shedied aged 70, in 1870), the experts discovered that these aborigines were probably the world's only specimens of the people of the stone age.