N. Z. TRADES COUNCIL CONFERENCE

Grey River Argus, 8 April 1904, Page 3

N. Z. TRADES COUNCIL CONFERENCE

i (per press association-) WELLINGTON, April 7. Tbe Trades Council's whitewashing of T. E. Taylor, MiH.R., was prophetic. Taylor is. now one of the leaders of a company which has contracts in hand for over a quarter of a million, including the power-house already under construction. He is thus (next to Seddoh) oiie of the largest employers in tbe colony. The Trades Hall did wisely in "healing the .breach." A lot of its members will shortly be banging round Tommy looking for jobs— Spectator. Elijah Dowie on the garden variety of ■journalist'":— "l would rather keep my.. intellectual, corpulency than to ' be like the razor-backed literary swine I see around me at these Press tables who are wallowing in the mire of their own mendacity and malignity. You are not even fat pigs — you are razor-backed pigs, wolfish pigs, with the ferocity of wild boars. You smoke, driuk, aud sin so muuh that*

, you are intellectual rakes, and your sneering face 3 and self-satisfied piggishness as you sit there for the last . time, make you loathsome in the extreme to me and to this vast audience When did I become afraid of a swarm of mosquitoes, flesh-flies, and literary lives?" And so on. What a pleasant cup of tea Elijah must be ! Twomey on Seddon's £15,000 Victoria monlment : — 'It is to be spent in raising a monument which will probably be the "greatest in the world, and which everybody whp can will go and see. It will therefore be the best advertisement- New Zealand could possibly have." "~ ' ■■" — ' i