CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1916, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE GERMAN, To the.'Editor. Sir,—While it may not be considered an act of kindness to kick a German or man or woman of German blood'out of the community,, the line should be drawe somewhere in dealing with them, sav to commence with, the granting of licenses or permits by the State or miblic bodice tn individual' Germans or company of German.?, such as the noted Rnpus.'laiid agents, auctioneers and hawkers, and such like that are daily to the fore in our peaceable communities,, and all such licenses or permits should be at once cancelled and the fees returned We may be told, in reply, that we are not compelled to deal with these people Quite true, but the fact remains that we have to deal with some one. and these people stand in the wav of people of our own nationality, who we desire to do our business with.—l am. etc., „. ~ „ A BRITISHER. Waitara, November 6, 1916. MR. KELLAND AND THE KAISER. To the Editor. Sir, I have, been ar. interested and amused member of the audiences at Mr Kelland's lectures, and on Sunday evening was more than amused by the very adroit way in which .he proved (?) that the Kaiser was the anti-Christ. I am quite sure that the Kaiser is a beast but I am equally sura that he is not. the beast that John of iPatmos saw, and that Mr. Kelland read of on- Sunday. Indeed, Mr. Kelland proved that himself, though he thinks that he proved the contrary. He says that the Kaiser's number is 036, but' John declares very distinctly and unequivocally that the number of the beast he saw is CGG, and if Mr. Kelland wore only a. little less clevei he would know that fact, and admit it. When Mr. Kelland has no further use for the Empire Theatre, I propose to occupy and expose the fallacy of his wonderful "oceultism,"but, in ease he may have to leave the town before I have the chance to reply to him, and some of his friends may be tempted to say that I waited until he was not there to defend his position,'»t hereby invite, him to forego his lecture nextSuhday evening, or arrange some other evening for a mutual discussion, and I <vill undertake to prove that, according to his own showing, the Kaiser is not. the antiChrist. He may not think me "a foeman worthy of his steel," or he may plead that he has not time to debate, or that the .subject announced for next Sunday is too important to be shelved, or in some other way may evade the issue, \ but he and liis comrades, in this town • can rest assured that, either in his presence or his absence, I will knock his "occultism" into • little bits. I have, at j all events, given him the chance to be present to view the wreck and pick up the pieces.—l am, etc., '"•

J. G. ELLIS. New Plymouth, November 0.