WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1214, 4 January 1905, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1905

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imparted lu iliniu ii vinual luniv. ludgn of iho Mriihci'luii'l li, 11 IIIMU'I'H t*lidl> «y«t«)in. ]l rum, < very t'xetdh'tit, and wo li«t>" n a ill couio about, but Iho Muirio nHm .1 boy ih much inoio in ih>iml of \i*u i ■ and otbor knowledge* of ilm rn|ni,i. than bin onloiilul cousin i't in in •■-! ill' vir*nlli lniow!t'(l(JtM)!' lirilain. Ih" , London pi'nph' uppfar :» 1 that lln» Colonial HUlloliir Will)'.-: |||'_ ing oiil, of tin; imi-f, hh tn -;■<!.. WhiUi on tlin Hiibji'Ct of U'liniiiiy i m | uolnnial mill Hiitieli youui;sl ■■! -=. i j IB interesting tn stw thai in ip-iili'-i Hritain nor (ho colon ii j rf do Hi"' miihoritien teach ohufM-l'iilinw. Tn,' I autlioritinH, in supplying poetry and i otht'r books, select depmwing sunject.H—" Sty lodging is til** «ol'l, v'ol i I gmmid," "'The Blind Boy," di-aih, j disaster, illness, and poverty. \Vh\, it is hard to iinagint', Dm-s ln> colonial boy need visual of this kind ? Whiteohaptd !{<i.;d in a Satin day night, for iiiHtiunv •. a gin palace in full awing ; V tlionat Lane on Sunday morning!-, the casual ward of a big '• wnrkhoiw" ? The colonial boy is well po.-tcl up by tin- kinuiuatograph in tln j kindly castled of the Home Laud, tin- worships, and tha mac}ihn'-drill>-d soldiers. The Imperial spirit i.-i idready abbizti. Wo would like Ir Lyttolton to hear New /"aland youngsterariin™ "The British (tivn.idievs" as we buvo heard ir in the uilies, but would like betli>r lor the Home boyß to understand ihat lOngland is not the Empiiv a-» N.-w Zealand youngsters already know that Now Zealand \h only a stpock ml' it.. The remarka recently o) l,o" i Uanfurly on this quantum of visual in«triiciioii, that there was neconnily to unite th" Kip in- in bondu of Hympathy were ijuiio Biipurfiueufi, The Hympatliy alwayn oxiateil, and always will cxinl, and tho Hympatliy of tbo colon h>* for thn Old Country in keener iliati the sympathy of lln< Old Ommtiy for (he colon k»n. If tlm London rtehonl of I'kjonoimcrt bollnvo llii boys at Homo know till I lint is n.wi'nary übotit. \)h, mid llnit. wo know nothing of Britain, they aro wroiiy. Wliat Ih waiilod in to Impart us much knowlodyo of th« colonioit at Iloinn an llu> COlojliOfl pOHfifiHfl Of thu peopU? wljO propom; thu hcliriik', and thi'ti fjavn liiipi'rial oxatiiiiiationH. In any (iompetitivQ examinations that iniyiit bo hold now, with colonial and Britiflh children aB rivals, the termor would omphatically "wipe out" tlm latter in general knowledge of tho Empire.