PATRIOTIC FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11675, 7 March 1900, Page 6

PATRIOTIC FUND.

TO THE EJUTOR. „-^'~ AUh°UF h 1,, 1,avc *h™*y elsewhere g.ie.i my very humble subscription to the patriotic fund and was enabled during my sfay m-South Africa to be- of some slight praetiC.,l use in one or two directions I feel im pelled to forward the enclosed a"a sign of my deep appreciation as a Jew and an Engli'shom the. ?W P" nl'T> the. magnificent patrolism which i.s such an essentia charactens ,c „f the inhab Hunts of this splendid city. L t iXf '•' ;'," d enthllf;>«.« !*!»eh I witnessed last, l-nday have s „„k indelibly into mv memory, and m my humble opinion deserv" j-o be writ largo on the page of New Zealand history and handed down to posterity as a great and abiding inheritance—l am, etc., S. Aimed Abler. THE AGENT-GENERAL'S CABLES. TO THK KDITOR. „i? II!i~ I } iC?7'X ly ,s.ymPilthise with the complaints of "Loyalist," Mv Herdman, and others concerning the pro-Boer attitude of the Agent-gonovM. It ls time a stopper was put oil fum. It is a. reflection on the competence M Xli '™1c,10,; s !li fcillilli.' "lactones to assert that the Boer losses are less than ours. Then again, it is confidently asserted by the Anentgenoraland men of his stamp that the British troops in South Africa, outnumber the Boer forces Bosh ! How could we have had such trouble if such were the. case? We loyalists believe and insist on others believing, willynilly, that: . "A Frenchman, a Russian, a Hollander, and Boer, - • - One . bloomiii' Britisher can smash 'em all If he doesn't " smash 'em," and quick, too, the odus must be more than 4 to 1. Therefore, the British in South "Africa must be in the minority. Q.E.D. If the Agent-general and his tribe say otherwise, and quote pretended facts to prove their case, so much the worse, for their facts and their veracity. To eternkl ner'ditiou with them, say I, as "Boer sympathisers." But' though the offensive cablegrams of MiReeves are bad enough..,what are we to think of the news published in your Saturday's issueV Lord Roberts, our hero " Bohs," shaking hands and hobnobbing at the breakfast tabic with that epitome of all that is base, brutal, and treacherous in the Boer nature the oaneful. bloodthirsty Cronje! What is the British Empire, and the world depending on it, coming to? Must we perforce conclude that the Commander-in-chief in South Africa as well as the Agent-general of New Zealand, is a ' Boor sympathiser " ? Are not hardshakes and invitations to. breakfast marks'of sympathy? If, as "Loyalist" suggests, we should " report ' the Agent-general to Mr Scd_don, it is high time we consulted her -vlaiesly (he Queen and Empress on Lord Roberts s " carryings on."—l am. etc., Lunatic Loyalist.