AUSTRALIA'S VIVID IMAGINGS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10582, 11 October 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIA'S VIVID IMAGINGS.

» r„* pJ [BY"- Eleotrick Tni/cc« At' n—Cor \ u lOHI.] (Per AssochtTon ) .Received Octobers 11-,''£> 8.25 Melbcurne^nOctohei?-10..-Speaking -at -the Manchester.Trinity centenary- .banquet, iEarl: Dudley , refened to certain -repoits peiisistentlj circulated? regarding tQondiict?yand intentions: He"fiad.'3-hear<i:-theseereporTts with rjnoat amazement. .-• Some wandering crit-icihad'rieporlodvtlie-, Australians j : as -la'cking.'imagination,- but evidently a' few possessed*the most, remarkly. vivid imaginations, for never did anyone set to work to concoct a story-, with less factfc to. build upon than the people who. invented those extraordinary yarns. He did not intend to worry in the. slightest degree about them. As to the rumors of his resignation he had nothing to say as to whether he remained ill office for the full period or not. He knew of no reason whatsoever which might cause his abrupt departure in the near future. So far as he was aware, all the stories about his successor being already appointed were pure moonshine, unless, indeed, providing understudies for leading gentlemen had been recently adopted by the Houje authorities;.