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NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 3

■'Some of 'the Australians, on a visit to the old country express considerable annoyance that the London press 00-ntains so 'little news of r.Jic Oo.ii-

iii on wealth. -They have been so used to .seeing our papers filled with London cables that they expect the papers there to be .filled with Australian cables to an equal extent. But where would the rest of the world come m if the bulk of the space, was defect to things Australian ?

A woman, writing to the editor, m what appears to be meant as an admonitory strain, and writing anonymously at that— clear . proof she's a rotter— says "Every one with common sense looks on a minister as a 'gentleman of note.' " Of note ? Why perhaps, .at the finish, but he's usually a gentleman of thrums. What good he is to the world at large, of wha/t real value m the community, are mysteries unsolved. The priest and parson are simply drones, loafers and spongers on fools who not only tolerate but support them and they stand on exactly the same plane as the fortune teller and palmist.

The question has often been asked, "Should handicappers also occupy the positions of sporting writers to different papers ?" It seems to the ■writer +i is ridiculous m the extreme for them to do both. Take a case m point. The handicapper . to the Wellington Racing Club is also the local correspondent to the "Sporting Review" and "Weekly Press," and m one of these papers recently he wrote "That the handicapper to the Rangitikei Racing Club (who, as everyone kmows writes under the norn de plume of 'Advance,' m the N.Z. 'Ti'mes')had spoilt the handicap for the Cup by trying to crowd so many horses within so man- pounds of each other." As soon as the weights appeared for the Wellington meetinf "Advance" got his scissors and paste-pot out, culled this para-graph and altered it to read Wellington Cup instead of Kangitilvei Cup. So for the nrescnt "honors are easy" with this childish pair. Next I expect to hear that Messrs Henrys, Morse and Coyle are contributing turf notes to some of the weeklies and singins: their own praises, and slaaww'han'.si'ng one another : and I'm sure that if the latter had more newspaper influence ho weald get a few more clubs to adiust the weights for : hut as it is •be is not a s^ortin** writer and enniio^ rub u t> r>;iv o f f V n+li»r h*m!l---f-appcrs, so they take good care not to rub him.