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GENERAL NEWS

Druids like a joke (says the Alanawiilu Daiiv Times), it "tin? reception given by 'the Mayor lo the delegates who are attending the Druids' conference in Taliiiursioii the fun was directed against the dry,us- of the electorate I laumuriimii) represented by Air. Jennings, M.P., who was: present as a delegate. A fellow Druid and Parliamentarian, Mr. liuiek. told a story, lie was travelling in the King Country by coach, and came to what he thought was an hotel, and -proposed! to dismount. The driver said no liipior was to be obtained, and so Air. I'.nick kept his scat, but the driver left his, unit was away for a suspiciously long time. Bat'or on the driver di.-covereil the identity of Mr. Bniek. and expressed his foldings in the words: "Whv didn't you tell me! We could have liad oceans of it. I thought yon were a bloomiu' prohibitionist.*'

A question concerning the cabled objections by 'Mohammedans to the appointment' of a Hindu member of the Viceroy's Council drew from Aliss Alice E. Henderson, an Indian missionary now in I'lirislchurch, the reply that of a total population of 300,000,000 in India, probsome 00,000,000 were .Mohammedans.

The latter were the more compact people, and they were commonly regarded, as being very loyal. It was suggested that their uuinurical inferiority to the Hindus made them more inclined to side with the ISmtish than would other- I wise he the case, but as to that she could say nothing on her own account. The Hindus, though so strong numerically, were without unity or cohesion, and so long as caste existed in India the Hindus would never be able to rule the country. Airs. Ann Coyle, the last survivor of the batch of immigrants who arrived by the ship Brilliant, under tho auspices of the Manukau Company, in IH4I, died at Auckland on Saturday, at the age of I 80 years. The deceased was the wife of the late Mr. ,1. Bain on her arrival in I New Zealand, and after his decease married the late Air. Daniel Coyle. She | leaves one son bvThe first marriage, and three sons ami one daughter by the | second marriage, also twelve grandchildI iii) ami six great-grandchildren. A writer on "(Hugo's Fiords and I hakes" in the Evening Star says, in the

course of his notes on a journey with liie lion. T. .Macko.i/ie: "We looked out for seals mi the rookerv at ShankIsland, and. saw one. There may have been others about, but all who know the coast agree that seals are not now plentiful. The wholesale slaughterings that began a hundred years ago and resulted in shiploads, of skins being loaded on the Sydney mid other visiting cralt well-nigh'exterminated the breed so far as tlio west, coast of New Zealand is concerned, and a restocking of the rookcries by the survivors has been made impossible, since the seal is not a proline breeder, and poaching has ipiite accounted for the natural increase. . .

Possibly it might be a step in the -rijrlit direction if all vessels that go on roving commissions were searched for guns before leaving, and searched for both skins anil gnus upon returning in port. This could be no hardship to genuine lislicrinen. They have no need for guns as pan of their tools of trade, and il would be a safeguard to the count it's inleres's if they were deprived of the means of blazing away at everything they see..'-'

On Salurdny Inst ILM.S. Cambrian left. Auckland on a nine inuiillis' cruise i-ouiul the world. She will go first lo Harotnnga. in response to the requisi.tiuns made by the authorities there, hi onli'i- tn impress tin' natives of the N'o'-thern Islands. j>riiifi|mllv those of llnk.ihanga, who have lately been troublesome, anil who some nimilhs ago lmuli'il down tlii' British. Hag. From Ihi'i'i' tlii' Cambrian will jto to Viiniiins bland, tin' I'ueiiic cable station, and

thence on to Honolulu. Alter visiting various parts of ihe South American coast, ihe warship will go lo Easter Maud. The killer lies midway between Tahiti and the South American coast, and possesses special interest on account

of its wonderful ruins and colossal 'images. The next island to be visited will be IMtcairn bland, the home of nearly two hundred of the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty. This island is out of the track of sailing vessels and steamers, and is visited every few years by a -British, mau-of-wav, which' generally takes to the inhabitants

boxes of clothes and other comforts sent out by charitable people from Home. The Cambrian goes from Pitcairn Island to Papeete, the French metropolis of the Eastern Pacific, and after that to l'iji. shc. returns to England thence by way of the Torres Straits, calling at several of the Dutch possessions, Batavia, and oilier places en route. The wealthier members of the English aristocracy, who arc just now wonder-

ing hinv they can contrive to make out a case against "predatory'' Kadical taxnlion. have good grounds for feeling

annoyed at an exhibition of tactlessness --as'it will appear to them from the political standpoint—of which the Duke

of Westminster has been guillv (writethe liondo.il correspondent of'the Melbourne Age), lie has chosen the present inopportune moment, when .Mr. Lloyd-!leorge confesses that he must presently rob "somebody's hen roost." to issue a notice to th'e worn-out old workers on lib estates, withdrawing the small pensions which it has been the long-established custom of his family lo

allow them, and curtly telling them that thev must apply lo the Oovcrnmeiit for'pensions. The Socialists have promplly represented this incident as an example of the greed and ineanni'ss which Uie.V consider lo be characteristic of the class of people who do not know what work means, and who derive their inc os exclusively through tile toil of others. The young duke has certainly committed a rather stupid blunder, lie inherited a few years ago properly valued at the enormous sum of .111!,0011.11(10. lie is understood to draw from it an almost fabulous income, and Ijiere can be no question as to his feeling any need for economics'a I the expense at' a few decrepit retainers on his estates, who are tottering on the brink of the grave. Moreover, he must be as fully aware as everyone else in the country that a Oovernineiit pension of os a week is not. sufficient 'iov an old person to live upon who Is without other support, and that by saving a few I 'pounds in terminating the allowances. ' he is consigning at least some of the old people.to the workhouse. Hi- action is forluuatolv not typical of the spirit of bis class, 'us the Socialists prefer to believe. Kindness towards old tenants and servants is the rule, not the exception, among the English aristocracy. |

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 16, 12 February 1909, Page 2

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GENERAL NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 16, 12 February 1909, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 16, 12 February 1909, Page 2

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