THE RULING PASSION.
Those are days when, life is made up ctf many and via-ried things. Variety is .said' to be charming; but it is possitoler to, have too much of evon a good thing. At the. present time New Zealand is in the throes of a .political crisis. An industrial upheaval is threatened. 'The ccsit of living .is a pressing prebk'tn.. But above end beyond it all :i» the aiding passion— -yport. Tin;' people- arc aliiost as agitated over a. contest in fisticuff's between a -negro and an Jrihlinuui. somewhere down in Mexico \vs they -are over the falbe of \:'.io lli:n'1.-.it.i'.v. l .-.it.i'.v. tilie Home Rule Bill, or the Pirns id en-cy. It is the variety of sport which appeals' to the multitude. Tilie rest is/ mwe superfluity of boredom.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 5 July 1912, Page 4
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132THE RULING PASSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 5 July 1912, Page 4
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