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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 3

Apropos the prodigiously long orations of the Maoris, write* a correspondent to the London "Daily Chronicle," it may amuse your readeTS to know that only a little over "twenty years ago my uncle, a judge in New Zealand, was obliged to issue an order to the effect that in future singing would not be taken as evidence in his court. It was the constant habit of the Maoris when pleading a cause to sing long and quite poeticsagas. As these generally began with legends of their remote ancestors, sometimes many hours, even days, jvould be 6pent before the point (possibly a trivial one) was reached. There is something G-ilbertian in this idea, but any old New Zealander could vouch for the facts. There is no country where the number of converts per missionary is so small as in Japan, yet there is no body of mi>. who give such enthusiastic testimonials to Japanese morals as the Christian missionaries there. So says Mr Ernest Foxwell, formerly of the University of Tokio. The American treasure hunting expedition, which has returned to Jamaica, found no money, but located the position of eight Spanish galleons. A number of bell-mouth cannon and other wreckage were scattered over half a mile of coral reef. The divers believe that it was the scene of a battle long ago, the ships having a number of holes in their sides. Some days ago it was reported to Inspector Cullen that a boy named Haine was missing from his home at Manunui. Information was received to-day that the search parties had discovered the boy, very much exhausted, in the bush. WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS tones the stomach and invigorates the bowels. WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS the purest spirit in the world. Ask for Wolfe'*,