FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18576, 26 September 1928, Page 8

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF SEPT. 26, 1868. Wanted to Let, a Six-roomed House. Rent very moderate. Apply to 11. C. West, next the Theatre. : : k r , The Alliance.—The stoppage of the publication of this weekly sheet is announced in to-day’s issue. « X V Gazette. —The New Zealand Gazette of September 17 contains the appointment of Mr John Marshman, of Christchurch, as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony. It is notified that the license of any distributor charging or receiving more than the established Value of any stamp or stamps sold by him will be immediately cancelled. X X Lyttelton Volunteer Artillery.—The chairman read a letter from headquarters, asking if any of the volunteers would volunteer for the Front. lie need hardly support the letter with any remarks; no doubt most of them had read Captain Moorhouse’s opinion on the matter; he entirely agreed with him. He was sure if the}- felt there was any need of their services being required to preserve the lives of their fellow-men in the North, Canterbury Volunteers would be the first to go. (Cheers). But Canterbury was the last place that ought to put herself forward; her resources were being drained to carry on a war which was profitable only to those in the North, for wherever it was it created trade. He must say he did not think that the Artillery were called upon to join in this matter.

Mete Kingi.—The following is an incident in the Parliamentary sojourn of the General at Wellington, as related by an Auckland journalist: But the grand humbug of the House, the disgrace to the legislation of the last year, is the Maori contingent. Mr Russell is a half-caste, and I believe cannot speak Maori, and was sensible enough to propose the other day that the Maoris might be represented by Europeans. Ministers, no doubt for a very good reason, oppose this, and the motion was lost. I shall here tell you an incident that I witnessed yesterday. I was walking along the street with a member of the House when “General” Mete Kingi came out of a clothing shop, where he had been getting attired in a blue coat and vest, with brass buttons. He said he had seen me in Wakatu. and shook hands with my companion and myself, pointing in a childish glee to his new coat and waist-' coat. After some palaver, and shaking of hands in Maori fashion, with a stamp on the ground, he said to the gentleman who accompanied me, “Makee me the lend of five heren. Kahorc the money.” “I have not a shilling in my pocket,” was the reply. What then did this General do—this chief of the noble native race, this one of four of the aborigines whose votes are given to make laws which shall bind a quarter of a million Europeans? In the open street he proceeded to feel the pockets of the gentleman, outside and