Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 221, 26 June 1902, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Leonard Philips and Sullivan were platelayers both, circumstances near Petone. One day alter casks. lately, in the intervals between grubbing >veeds from the cinder track with a Dutch hoe, the Boer war was introduced as a topic of conversation. Denis favouring the Boer roused Leonard’s patriotic ire, aqd, raising his hoe, he remarked, “You like the Dutcbies; see how you like one of their hoes,” In the natural order of things Denis went to sleep temporarily, and his assailant is committed for trial. Had he been in South Africa he might have smashed the heads of those who differed from him with perfect impunity; in fact, he might have risked getting hubg with medals ; here he risks getting hung—without medals Another instance of the power of cornea from Timaru. A poor kid named Veroall, 13$ years old, had passed the Fourth Standard, and then ? considering his education complete, he used tp gq down on the wharf fishing, He seldom caught anything during the day, but this deficiency was made up for at night, when his father, having finished his day’s work, was at liberty to point out to him the error of hia ways. This he did with a knobbly supplejack, to bis own entire satisfaction. That he would have delighted the soul of the old Israelitish king by observance of his advice was evidenced by the boy’s mother, who said the thrashings were such as to make him ill. Youngster had been sent to an uncle in the country to see if he would go to school better when he came back. Fine of 2s imposed, poor little beggar, fee'll paj? fer that two fhillinge, " didn’t thrash Verna’il senior m such a way to make him sick. Jt wopld give - him fi, chance to show if he could hold up his bands against someone his own weight—but such “fathers” never do. The application of the saying, someone asks. Well, young Vernall, when groffn, will be able to shout that’ “ Britons never shall be slayes ’* when ever there i? a chance of another Power trying to make us do the fair thing with someone else’a land. He has just at much right, as a boy, to do wrong as the uatjon hqs, blit circumstances alter oases.M ' ’