JOSHUA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11892, 29 December 1916, Page 1

JOSHUA.

(Sydney " Su-n.") Mr Wade gives Mr Holman the name of Joshua. Let us read in tho Book of Joshua, and see what wo can find. ''Mosey, my servant, is dead; new therefor© arise." This does not mean a collapse of the loan market; it is Jimmy M'Gowen's epitaph, written three years ago. "There shall not any man be able to stand before they all the davs of thy life.'* Good-bve, Mr Durack. "Take yo twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, and command ye them." This must bo the National Cabinet. u Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." The tote, following the bookmakers' tax. " What shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies?" Speech after the referendum. " Destroy tho accursed thing; from i among you." Speech to Labour on the I.W.W. " So tho sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down. 1 ' Daylight-saving proposition, j "Bring out thoso live kings unto j me." Surely Mr Holman doesn't play poker! But, if he did, such arc the hands lie would draw. "So Joshua took all that land, tho hills, and all the south country, and the land of Goshen." t. I'O.ntjao,:.. .for tt«ajWj><:£rin3 at> last." " Appoint cities of refuge, that the slaver, that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither." ( Revision of death penalties. ' "Joshua died, being an hundred and I ten years old." j By which time Persnurkus also will be dead.