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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 8

"•Punch'' is the bible of -the smart set. and. the only serious -litcrature -that that " set ever reads.—Mi <Connthope Wilson. There was lately to be witnessed a-t- the London Hippodrome Mr. "Fred Xrindsav," who wit-h. the short-handled, longthomjed st-ock-whip so familiar in tie bush"or on the ranch, executes a series of . feats of amazing dexterity across the whole width, of the stage. jjl« cuts into two with, his whip a cigaTette smoked by an assistant as cleanly as if the severance were -effected l bv a razor. At a dis. tance of 40ft. ho flicks the ash from a cigar, ties knots round his assistant's arm and accomplishes lassooing feats oi the most- comDlicated and extraordinary character. "Mt "Lindsay," oy th-i way, is a well-known city man, a director of several important companies., owner of a big rfinch in the Canadian North-West, and of -extensive concesjsiorift in TSritisix East- .Africa, Hs fougnt in tlie South African war, and is an old jjersonaO. friend of Mr. Roosevelt# , "While it would be premature to venture on any forecast a s Ito the jc.sue of 'fclie renewed movment fo. th-e completion Methodist unio." in Nflw Zealand, it is. not too much tc scy that the indications are inort promising than they have been f° r over a. quarter of a 'century. (When the other branches of Method'rsm in New Zealand united 10 years ago. the draft basis wias vetoed by Australia. whic"h has consistently imposed restrictions -which, the more de •mocra-tio church in ~New Zealand could not accept, therefore, though tlie subject 'has come up repeatedly. "it -was recognised that no progress could be made while the union with Australia was maintained. Now •that Methodism in these islands hsif eured self-government, the sole remaining serious obstacle to union lias -been removed.—"Post."