HERE AND THERE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 25, 11 July 1911, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

The Governor has received the following reply to a message of congratulation forwarded from New Zealand to the Prince of Wales upon his birthday :—London, June 28th: “ Will you thank the Government and people of New Zealand from me and tell them I hope one day to be able to visit their beautiful country. — Edward P.” A young man was charged before Mr F. O’B. Loughnan, S.M., at Hamilton, on Wednesday with having failed to register, as being liable to serve in the territorial force. Lieut. Burgess, who appeared for the authorities, said he did not wish to press for punishment, as it was the first case in the district, and the accused had since registered. The Magistrate said that taking the circumstances into consideration, and that it was the first case of the sort brought before him, he would impose a very small fine. It must be understood, however, that in any future cases brought before him he would deal much | more severely with the offenders. He would ask the press to give publicity to what he had said, and imposed a fine of 10s and £1 costs.

One never knows how luck may lie. We had the fortune to find the following love letter in our main thoroughfare, and which when interpreted, reads as follows : —“ Dear I write you these few you lines to let you know that I am all right, hoping you my dear you did not kit sorry to me my dear darling love so true to my heart dear. The roses red, the violets blue, my love for you will alway be true. The thoughts of meeting you be it not darling. —— forget me not. Good-night, my star light, light of my heart your be my star light thoughts we are far apart, and when your lonely my heart delight, dream of you, true love. Good-light, star light, light of my heart, you be my dream love so true, you my starlight and moon. I remain, your truly,

“ Civis,” writing in the “Otago Daily Time,” discusses Coronation honours in a satirical strain : —“The thing to remember is that the people of New Zealand have never appointed DrjFindlay to any offise or position. It v/as not the people of New Zealand that put him into the Legislative Council, made him AttorneyGeneral, set him at the head of great departments of the public service to order and direct, do and undo, kill and make alive. It was not the people of New Zealand that sent him to the Imperial Conference. All these were >b‘ngs done by the Rt. Honourable Bart, and since it is to the Rt. Honourable Bart that wc must attribute all New Zealand coronation honours including his own, it is the Rt. Honourable Bart that has knighted Dr Findlay. No great harm done, perhaps. A few belted knights scattered about improve the scenery, and the advent of an hereditary nobility will teach us to touch the cap to our betters, a thing too much neglected.”