WHAT IS BEING SAID.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12680, 27 October 1909, Page 1

WHAT IS BEING SAID.

1"..:... "It is a disgrace," remarked the Hon. C. M. Luke, "that any coal should be imported into New Zealand. i Why, instead of having 2000 to 3000 workers in the coal industry we ; should have at least 30,000 coal work- , ers." It is the bomiden duty of every Commander-m-Chief to "strive for readiness in. war, but never to fritter away the. resources of the country in ■ unnecessary military adventures. — | Lord Kitchener, { "It is my opinion that Mr. Justice ! Sim is the firmest and fairest prcsij dent that has ever .held office in conI nection with the Court of Arbitration ! He goes as far as lie can to help the '• workers, but he never goes so far as \ to injure an industry." — Hon. W. j Beehan. We are going to strike Lard at the House of.Lorde when we get a chance, and if the fight takes place over the Budget, then we will have more power to out elbow and will hit the harder. — Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P. "I firmly believe that the Englishspeaking people will some day rise up and put an emd to the barbarism of war, and. the sooner that this is done , the better. Human nature is, in my opinion, not incapable of improvement along these lihes^'— Hon. J. T. Paul. I thank God that the people of this country are more and more learning the lesson of enjoying a holiday in a sensible Christian spirit, without immorality or drink or folly. — Bishop Welldon. Socialists are strongly anti-Puritans for they believed in the people thoroughly enjoying themselves on the Sabbath as well as on other days. — Rev. E. G. Maxted. It would be well if teachers were to imitate the methods of the Japanese by giving a large place in ethics to the j strengthening of the family tie — Proj i'ossoi- L. P. Jacks. j Marriage should be the beginning i of everything that makes life worth j living for a woman ; it is .so often the j end — tho end of love, faith, hope, but siot charity. — Miss Annie Hughes. Tho troubio with modern England is not how many or how few people vote it is that, however many people 'vote, a small ring of administrators do what they please. — Mr. G. K. Chesterton. We a:rc suffering all round from the cry of Art for Art's sake and Realism for Truth's sake; and we allow pictures of the actress type in society papers which would not have been tolerated tan years ago. — Canon RawnsJey. The white peoples of South Africa have trusted each other in the most whole- hearted manner; and now the people "of Great Britain and Ireland have finally decided to trust South Africa, and make her work out her own destiny in her own fashion. — General Smuts. i