ANOTHER PRO-BOER LIE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1902, Page 2

ANOTHER PRO-BOER LIE.

The London correspondent of tlie Wellington " Post " wri' ing on February 28, says ;- " fhore is deep reseutmant in New Zealand oircles in London (writes

a "Sh JameßV Gazette" correspondent, under the beading- ' Anoi her f ro-Boer Lie Nai'ed ') at a wbioh has gone the round of the Pro-Boer press in this country tha the reason so many New Zealaudeis volunteered for active service in south Africa was because of the largfl number of unemployed m the colony. The object of publishing the information is, of e.mrse, cbvious. It suits tlie proBoer book to belitte a3 much es possible tho sfoatanoous outbuibt c>f patriotism which bas beea so marked a chracleristic of the unhappy struggle in which the Mother Country has been engaged during the past Iwo years. Tbeße lovers cf every country but their own stick at no- | thing to attain their ends, and thoy do I not hesitat9 to impule sinister motives Lo every action I bat does notl fit iv with their inissrable ' creeps.' Fortunately, New Zealand, as well as the other colonies, has shown that it knows esastly what value may be attached to the utterances and statements of that clique which has striven aod is a till striving, although with ever-diminishing success, lo bring about another Majuba settlement. It ie, nevertheless, desirable to nail the latest li« to tbe counter. At thetime the first New Zealand contingent waß raised there wore few, if any, unemployed in the colony, and none of ihe contingent*] contained mere than 2 por cent of men who were out of work when they were enrolled, Ampie proof of this can be forthcoming if necessary, but it is hardly likely that those who have found so much comfort in their own explanation of New Zealand's assistance will care to be confronted with the facts of tho case. 3 '