ENGLISH AND GERMAN ROYALTY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

ENGLISH AND GERMAN ROYALTY.

" Cms" writes in the Otago Witness Ingratitude and inliospitality are cardinal sins, and this is what a large section of the German nation is guilty of in the treatment extended to the Dowager Empress Victoria, Because she is English (onn of the very few guests we have sent to be maintained by the German Court) she is obnoxious, and is to be driven out of the country if possible. So much for German hospitality. As for German gratitude, this is our recompense for having for some 170 years past supported in luxury an ever increasing band of needy Germans, respectable and otherwise. Those who came over with his sacred Majesty, then Elector of Hanover, were mostly otherwise, but we have educated them, improved their morals and taught them manners, until now no one need be ashamed to walk up Bond-street with the Unman hangers on of the English Court. Many very sleek and wellbehaved German princelings are now to be seen browsing about our Piccadilly pastures, and there is one domiciled as a tame cat at Windsor and Balmoral, who is in every way doing credit to his opportunities, and lias learned to wear kilts, drink Scotch whisky, and even plough the nsriu-f billow in an English yacht. After all thi-i, our one royal representative at Berlin, a la ly, strong-minded, perhaps, hut of kindly disposition and honest intentions, is to be ostracised because she is Theyounsj Einperor is somewhat particular as to the fount from which ho draws his being, and is inclined to be dissatisfied with the English strain in his blood. He thinks that as King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, and all tbo rest of it, he should bavo been allowed S'trae voice in the selection of a mother. Ii is hard that a potentate should be so circumstanced. When we arrive at a higher state of civilisation, women, before they lightly undertake the duties of wife and motherhood, will, perhaps, have the iroodness to pause and consider whether they are likely to be acceptable in the eyes of their children.