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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 224, 3 July 1902, Page 4

An interesting piece of news was > given to an Evening Post representaI tive by a visitor from Taranaki, who | says that the natives of the district ' around Parihaka are in an excited 1 state just now owing to the feeling worked up by Te Whiti concerning the Coronation of the King. It appears that for some time past Te Whiti, who first won celebrity among the natives as a prophet, has been foretelling that King Edward would never go through the Coronation ceremony. Te Whiti made this statement at the quarterly meetings of his followers which are held at Parihaka. The latest of these quarterly reunions came off last week, and there was a larger attendance than usual, as Te Whiti had been rallying bis followers up in anticipation of the fulfilment of his prophecy. He kept the majority of the natives in Parihaka until the news came through as to the postponement of the ceremony in London. This result has naturally increased the mana of the prophet, whose influence had been for some time on the wane. The Rector’s Daughter : ‘ My father feels it very much, Mrs Barker, that you should leave the church every Sunday just before the sermon. Don’t you think you might try and stay in future ? ’ Mrs Barker: ‘ dursn’t do it, miss. I do snore that dreadful when I’m asleep ! ’ She : ‘ Its funny that you should be so tall. Your brother, the artist, is short, isn’t he ? ’ He (absently) ‘ Yes, usually.’ Emmy: Why does the clock start again when it gets to twelve ? —Bobby: Because thirteen’s an unlucky number, of course ! “ Sweet and Twenty ”: My face is my fortune.—He (forty, yet ardent)! And let me assure you, my dear, you have spent none of it. “ John,” she snorted, “ I wish you could re-arrange your business a bit.” — “ How?”—“ Why, so as to be a bear on the Stock Exchange instead of at home.” In the Train.—“ Beg yous pardon, sir, but you seem to be staring at, me in a strange fashion, Do you see any* thig about me that is familiar to you ?”