Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The last fievieio of Reviews to hand contains some of the caricatures of the month, and are very good. Aladderadatsch shows " how the northern Alexander might cut the Corean knot." The picture represents a Chinaman and a " Jap " tied together with their pig tails, the knot of which represents Corea. A Russian stands between with a pair of scissors in one hand and a knife in the other which he is usin^ to divide the " tie '* but so arranging that Corea shall fall at his feat. The suggestion is almost prophetic.

The Westminster Budget depicts " the climb Lorn Grindlewald to Mount Millenium," and is an alpine scene : the party consists of the Archbishop of Canterbury and York, typical of the Church of England, the Eev Hugh Price Hughes, Dr Clifford and Eev C. Berry, with W. T. Stead and H. S. Lunn as guides. Stead is leading and is getting near a ticklish spot and the Archbishop of Canterbury being next on the rope, is shown as hauling it tight and crying out to Stead " Steady, Steady."

Grip has a sketch of " the struggle for the mastery " in which John Bull is having a severe wrestling bout with a big man branded L.S.D., and Lord Roseberry a small figure in jockey costume looking on, remark" ing " 1 will go so far as to say that if the country does not control the liquor traffic, the liquor traffic will control the country," being an ex* tract from a recent speech of his. The warning is one that can be taken for New Zealand quite as much as for Great Britain.

Kla&det adatseh makes fun of the Papal Encyclical, remarking "it is said to be translated into twentyfour languages. Everywhere it is certain of the heartiest welcome," and proceeds, in the sketch, to sbow how. A rude little boy has made a paper hat of it ; a Scotch lad has made a boat of it which he is pushing about in the water ; a Spaniard, as a matador is using it to attract a bull ; a Russian is blocking it all out in black, after the manner of the Russian press Censor ; a " Jap '' has made it into a paper lantern ; a North American Indian is using it to light his pipe ; a Chinese has converted it into a kite ; and a Negro is using it for a waist cloth.