THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9074, 24 April 1906, Page 3

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

DAY OF THE NICE GIRL. The nice girl is in favor just now, and there is a pleasing tendency towards simplicity in all that concerns her. That ' pertness and knowingness and independence of manner which were acceptable a while ago are no longer so. — World. BOERS AND BRITISH. The gerrymandering schemes, which are popularly and without contradiction attributed to' the new Liberal Government in England, have awakened in. South Africa the old conflict between two races and two racial ideals-. The Boars at last see a reasonable chance of regaining their position as a privileged class. The British community feels that it is in serious danger of becoming once more a community of Uitlanders.— Star, JoTiannesburg. THE PACE WE LIVE. This is said to be a "strenuous" age. Doctors ox people who dabble in the doctor's art talk about the "pace 1 we all live now, "the stress and storm of life in England in tihe twentieth century, and so forth. But are we all so tremendously strenuous? Are we greater in will or work than Eng-* lishmen were in the Elizabethan age or than they were, say— we take the date at ■random in 1806? English literature and history do not show convincingly that this is so-? Saturday Review. TTSBEST IN CHINA. \n international military occupation in Ghana is not. unKkely if the present unrestcontinues. The Chinese during late tames hare become extremely arrogant towards the pale devils. The military training received from Japanese instructors will even tually enable them to make a bolder stand than in 1900. The Japanese are apparently favorable to the Europeans; but their inmost • sympathies .are for the Chi nose, who* dominions they one day hop* to rule — Italic. Rome.