TOO MUCH "REID"-ING.

NZ Truth, Issue 253, 30 April 1910, Page 6

TOO MUCH "REID"-ING.

Some New Zealand journals arc not ;]>3eased to receive so much cablcgraphic 'information about Australia's recently appointed High Commissioner (the Right Hon. Sir George Reid}, and would prefer ■receiving more news of- the High Commissioner for New Zealand. The "Marlborough Herald" gets the following oil its chest :— "Sir George Reid is revelling m champagne and eloquence. Banquuttcd again (vide London cables). We have lost -count of his banquets and weighty utterances. Seems to have magnetised the cable gr'air.nier ! "Sir George must be getting very stout and uncomfortable. It is said that he sleeps through the greater part of the banquets ; then someone pvods him, and he wakes ,up to utter some unexceptionable Imperial sentiment m ornate periods. He falls asleep again, and the admiring cable man dees the rest. "Someone ought to /fell the caMer that the New Zea'anders are not so fond oi Kcid-ing as the Australians. What about the New Zealand High Commissioner, anyhow ? Does he never say anything striking ?"