Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 9, 29 February 1908, Page 4

Sayings of the Week

Patriotism must be inspired by unselfish motives if it is to lead a nation to the attainment of the high destiny marked out for it. — Cardinal Moran. < - • • Ready assistance has always been given by the Government towards fostering the great staple industries. To this fact I attribute much of the present-day prosperity. During the last two or two and a-half years more miles of telegraph and telephone wire have been erected in tlie Waikato than in the previous twenty years,— Mr. Greens lade, M.P. The people of this Dominion had become Die greatest letter-writing community in the world. With a population of under a million persons to-day, they were posting per man, woman, and child about 79 letters per head per annum of every soul in the country. The very fact of taeir posting last year something like 78 million or 79 million of letters was a wonderful record for a country such as this, and if it were not for the fact that postal facilities were so good and cheap nothing like such a result would have been achieved.— -Sir J. Ward. The Mayor and Mayoress of Auckland are always ready to give their assistance in every possible way.— Bishop Lcnihan. If mistresses want to keep servants they ought to treat them properly— Mr. Barnett, S.M. * * * * It is of extreme importance to have a reserve force capable of taking its share of defending the country.— Sir J. Ward. Tauranga is the garden of New Zealand. — Mr. James Reid. • • • • The three great factors in the building up of a nation were religion, enlightenment, and patriotism, and a cathedral typified the highest ideal to which they could aspire. The religion acquired in the Middle Ages was the ground work in the building up of the great Germanic nations. — Cardinal Moran. » * * * Disturbances in tram-cars require to be put down with a strong hand. Respectable people must be protected from such blackguardism, and I intend to do it. In future cases I shall exercise my powers imposing a sentence of imprisonment. Indecent and filthy language in public places, especially vehicles, is an offence that must be severely visited. —• Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M. * * * * There was no district in New Zealand without railway communication that had a better service with the large centres than Tauranga had with Auckland.— Mr. C. Ranson. Although no doubt a good deal of bad language was used on board ship, a matter to be greatly deplored, yet he supposed it would continue so for all time—it had become recognised as almost a licensed institution.— Mr. Kettle, S.M. « « * • Any literature that led to anarchy and the establishment of secret societies, or to the destruction of married life could not be considered a blessing.— Cardinal Moran. The country was calling out for population. The debt of the Dominion was increasing at a greater ratio than the population, and a strong immigration policy was required. The Government would be well advised to raise its loans outside the Dominion, and leave the money in the country for the development of the country.— Mr. D. J. Nathan, Wellington Chamber of Commerce. • • • • New Zealand was trading largely upon Increased prices, and not the increased production of our primary products.— Mr. ft. Shirtcliffc, Wellington i’hamber of Commerce. • • • • It was his earnest desire to broaden the work of legislation so that the people as a whole would obtain the highest positions among the civilised peoples of the Worlds Sir J. Ward.

My confidence in the Arbitration Court has not been shaken by recent events, and I don’t think there is a disposition among the great body of workers to get free of it. The bulk of the workers, especially those who belong to the older unions, realise to the full the advantages of the Act, and have no desire to see it repealed.— Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister * * * * He congratulated the citizens of Auckland on the marvellous change that had taken place in the city and New Zealand since his last visit. There had been a great change in many respects, but the greatest was the transition of the country from the position of an ordinary colony to that of an integral part of the Empire—a development that had fully earned the title of “Dominion.” — Cardinal Moran. * * * * Money cannot be applied to a more worthy object the building of libraries.— Sir J. ll'ard. When you carefully investigate the returns and find that out of a total export valued at £19,687,573 over £19,250,000 is supplied by primary producers, who also supply the consumers of the Dominion with produce to the value of £14.000,000, making a grand total of £33,250.000 wrung from the soil, one may be pardoned if he hesitates in a country such as New Zealand, and submits to himself for solution the problem, “Why should the many be penalised by heavy Customs duties for the benefit to the few-?”— Mr. J. (I. Harkness, President Wellington Chamber of Commerce. * * * * Hamilton must in future be a very important centre, and, as suggested in the address, he could only hope that his next visit would be in connection with improvements to their railway, though, of course, he could make no promise.— Sir J. Ward. The Motherland cheerfully bore substantially the whole burden of the navy, win.out which the vast coastline of Australia eould not preserve immunity from foreign attacks for twelve months. The Motherland should at least expect a right to trade without practically prohibitive restrictions along the coast it had to guard.— Sir William Robson, AttorneyGcneral, England. » * * * Twenty-five million women have been relieved sinces the inauguration of Lady Dufferin’s fund.— Lord Minto, GovernorGeneral of India. By excessive drinking you are doing a crimial thing in destroying your health and body, and persisting along towards becoming a further burden to society.— Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M. * * * * But for British protection the Vancouver riots would have been discussed under the guns of Japanese battleships. —Dr. Parkin. • * * * The increase in the trade of the Dominion for the year is over five and a-half million pounds.— Mr. J. G. Harkness. * « * * The laws of the Arbitration Act were a great success in imposing and exacting fines from the j>oor unfortunate employer, but they were a failure when the fines had to be imposed on the employee. —Mr. J. McQueen, Chairman of Directors of the Southland Frozen Meat Co. • » * • Not only did the Admiralty know the depth of water in every harbour and bay in New Zealand, but they knew how far a boat of any particular class could go up tnc Wairoa river; knew the height of nil its mountain peaks, the direction and state of its roads. — Colonel Bauchop. • e # • It had been truly said that the Roman Catholic Mission to tropical Africa and Egypt had grown and was flourishing above the graves of martyred priests and nuns who had noiny given their lives for the sake of the most degraded and abandoned creatures on God’s earth. —£ev. D. O’Sullivan,

The world's financial condition was now on a sounder footing, and speculation had been largely eliminated. The business outlook was not unpromising, and tho international aspects were much brighter than they had been for years past.— Sir Felix Shuster, of the Bankers’ Institute, London. * » » * The conditions under which workers work in the district at present were not to be compared with those that prevailed when he started—they had improved out of all belief. If station hands fifteen or sixteen years ago had been told that the station owner would supply wire mattresses, and basins to wash in, they would have laughed at the absurdity of the statement.-— Mr. H. Nicholson, Overseer Leslie Hills Station. * * * * The person who eats meat has about ninety-five chances in one hundred of thriving on the meat, and ninety-five people out of a hundred don’t give the matter a thought. Let ’em eat, for tomorrow they die—may be of tuberculosis, but most likely of repletion. The sin of the present generation, sir, is guzzling, guzzling!— A Wellington doctor. Our credit balance is one shilling now. —The Secretary, Taranaki Hospital Board. I object to any power of local administration being taken away from local bodies.— T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington. I used to be a Socialist, but I have saved a little bit of money since.— Mr. H. Nicholson. * * * * When he went home from lodge meetings or card tournaments connected with the lodge, however late, he always had to spend a little time in telling his wife what had been going on.— Bro. Ambridge. I have always advocated the policy of using the railways for securing indirect benefits to the people rather than financial results, and I am perfectly certain that the system has worked out satisfactorily.—Mr. G. W. Russell. Why should a Maori be excluded from service in the British Navy simply because he is a Maori, or, in other words, because he is not “a British subject of European extraction ? — Sir William J. Steward, Member for Waitaki. * * * * As regards habitual criminals, we will make them do some necessary work, and give them slightly improved conditions, but the main thing is to give them a chance of showing by their conduct that they are entitled to get their liberty once more. — Hon. James McGowan, Minister for Justice. Al men were claiming increased wages, despite warnings issued by such men as Ramsay Macdonald and Keir Hardie, who could see in what direction the movement tended. — Mr. W. Scott, of the Arbitration Court. A secretary was one who had to keep his temper and keep his head. The general complaint was that a secretary wanted to “boss the show,” but the secretary who could carry out his duties without trying to boss the show soon won the favour of all members.— Bro. J. Warren, P.G. » * » * If a man was supplied with something free he did not value it. If men were supplied with soap free he predicted that sufficient would be found in the drain to stock a grocer.— Mr. H. Nicholson. Never during my married career have I ever had the slightest rebuke as to “Why don't you stay at home; you are putting in far too much time at the lodge,” but, on the other hand, I have been encouraged to take an interest in lodge matters.— Bro. Ambridge. • • • • A motor-car is a good idea for Ministerial trips. You arrange your deputations for a certain time at each township. If they are not up to time, off you go, and you are in the next township, with only the smell of petrol to console the dilatory ones! — Hon. R. McNab. • • • • T 1 I intend visiting New Plymouth to set on foot there the movement for increasing the knowledge of the proper eare of infants. — Lady Plunket.

Sheep and cows had done for thfli Dominion than all the politicitns put together, despite the fact that their socialistic friends argued that the pros* perity of the Dominion depended on themselves. The Government had done much for the dairy industry, but it had done nothing for the pastoral interest®. —Mr. A. W. Rutherford, M.P. • • • • iuy experience of soldiers teaches me that you can do infinitely more with volunteers than with mere conscripts. I have seen the latter at work on the Continent, and I have seen our voluntary; soldiers in this country, and I am quite sure that one of the latter is worth twa conscripts. When a man does a thing out of love of country he will show st higher spirit than if he were dragged out by law and made to do it. It is the mind and spirit which permeate an army, which is of far more importance than anything else nowadays. — General Sit! John French. « « • • The dairy farm can be made the best place on earth on which to be born, educated, married from, and from which to add one’s name to the honourable mention of earth’s manhood and womanhood. —Mr. Gould, U.S. 9 * ♦ * They all belonged to the one Church—* a greater Church than the Baptist o< even the Salvation Army—the ChurcK of God. While they all had their <ieno* minatioual differences they were all on® in Christ Jesus.— Rev. W. Lamb, Baptist Minister. « * * » Some of them were forcing their way up in the world by their business and skill, but he always felt and recognised that he could never be good for anything else than preaching the Gospel.— Rev. W. Lamb, Baptist Minister. * * * • He was of opinion, and not without reason, that they could sweep away the liquor traffic from the Bluff to Dunedin? provided always ~iat the churches and temperance organisations worked consistently together with that one end m view. — Mr. A. S. Adams, Temperance Reform Council. • • • • If it was a question of the harbour or the making of the town healthy he would say “Give me health before the harboui! half a dozen times.”— Mr. J. Toivnleifa Mayor of Gisborne. » * » * Good Templary organisation was formed in America in 1826, and the movement had since taken an everlasting lease—a lease-in-perpetuify. The first members of the order were called “Sons of Temperance,” and later on a new organisation was formed called “Sons of Jericho.” — Mr. A. B. Thomson, Grand Lodge of Good Templars. « « « « At the present time his firm (A. and T. Burt) had about a thousand pounds’ worth of brass goods landing in the Do* minion; if such proved satisfactory tho order would be repeated. They had a large) brass manufacturing plant, but found they could not compete with English articles. If any further burden, sueh as increased wages, were placed on other manufactures carried on by his firm they would be forced to lessen the scope of these establishments considerably, and commence importing. In Dunedin alone his firm had paid an annual wage-bill of from £26,000 to £30,000. — Mr. W. O, Burt. « » * • I am pleased to be present at yout (the Masterton) show on such an auspicious occasion, when the Association has attained its majority. It is a fine? healthy young man, too, and is typical of the people of the Dominion. — Lord Plunket. » • • • This employee has come to the Conciliation Board primed up with the employers’ ideas, and is also filled up with employers’ whisky. If the employers stooped so low as to fill employees with whisky for their own ends, it was no# worth while calling witneses. — Mr. W, H. Westbrooke, Masterton Dairy Factories’ Dispute. He intended next session to bring down an important Bill respecting tho control of hospitals and charitable aid, in which he proposed altering the elective principle respecting these institus tions, adopting the ratepayers’ rolls of the contributing bodies. •— Hon. (K Fowlds.

We could do nothing to check the spread of the flames, and my wife got a few things from the house and stored them in the milk cans. This is a., we have left of our home. — Mr. Schuemarch, Egmont. « « « « About a mile and a-half down the Egmont road Mr. Schuemarck came rushing towards us shouting wildly and asking if we could take his wife and family along with us out of the fire, qg the house was threatened. There was fire all around and one shed just on the mountain side of the sawmill was burning fiercely as we came by. We brought two settlers’ wives and a number of children along with us into town. I, have not seen anything to equal these fires. — Mr. T. K. Skinner, New Plymouth. * * * * The first Good Templar Lodge was formed in Invercargill in 1872, and he thought it a significant fact that Invercargill should have been the first large town to carry No-License.— Mr. A. B. Thomson. « « «■ » When I had almost given up hope, a Vehicle came down the road and took the women and children out of danger. It was agonising to see them all huddled together out in the open with fires raging all around. For two or three hours the heat had been terrible, and I was almost blind with smoke, and finding breathing difficult. 1 had only just got the women and children in the brake when the house caught fire. In a few minutes there was one mass of flame, and everything collapsed.— Mr. Schuemarch, Egmont. While on the subject of farmers’ butter, it might be pointed out that there are evidences of the cream having been kept over-long before churning. There is clouded moisture on the butter, and in one or two exhibits the salt is not thoroughly incorporated.— Mr. D. Dickie, Judge, Masterton Show. *•**-* The dangers of these bush fires would •be minimised considerably if farmers would systematically burn up the stumps, etc., from their holdings each year. The danger which was always threatened during the summer months would practically be done away with then. — Mr. T. K. Skinner, New Plymouth. He had heard a great deal about the fertility and rich pastures of the Gisborne district, and what lie had recently seen fully confirmed his previous views ■of the great and prosperous, future which lay before the district.— Hon. G. Fowlds. * * * * A scheme involving an expenditure of £BO,OOO for drainage was beyond the means of the borough, and a proposal to raise a loan of that amoimt would certainly not meet with the sanction of the ratepayers. — Mr. T. J. Thompson, Mayor ®f Hastings. « * * « The money to be raised under the New Plymouth Harbour Board Bill was to repay the £135,000 (balance of £200,000 borrowed in 1870) and provide for new harbour works, bringing the total to 1390.000.— Mr. Jiewton King. * * * * It was significant that now that the farmers from end to end of the country Were suffering loss there was no talk amongst the town unions and societies of sharing witn the farmers. — Mr. J. Flanagan, Drury. *. *. * * I recognise that tlie insurance companies who have to pay probably about £30,000 as oontributione under the Fire Brigades Act of last year, and who have had severe losses through fires, may find it absolutely necessary to increase their rates. — Hon. Dr. Findlay, AttorneyGeneral. . • • • • Only a lunatic could suppose that the United States would cross the Pacific to try and rob Japan, one of her oldest and truest friends.— Mr. Whitelaw Heid, American Ambassador. ****'• The idea that the peoples of Hindustan. moved by the example of Japan and tire new spirit in China, are likely to unite in a great movement of nationalism before which Britain’s presence will become superfliHMts. cannot hold in face of the abiding divisions which cleave the population of India.— Mr. C. Paterson, MJL, LL.B., of Madras.

He had gone to the Government bureau to get two men, and had met with no success. He was told, after repeated inquiries, that it was impossible to get men to go into the country, and he was advised to get a milking machine.— Mr. Wilson, ot the Farmers’ Union. * * * • In this country, where waterways play so important a part, it is absolutely essential that every Iroy and girl should learn, not only how 'to swim, but should also be able to renuer assistance in cases of drowning.— Mr. George George, Director of Technical Education, Auckland. * « * * They required leaders of men with a true sense of their responsibility and their duty to their country, leaders who would take patriotism for their guide, sanctified through religion.— Cardinal Moran. There is not the remotest prospect of another mutiny. I have no hesitation in saying that the great majority of the educated and enlightened men of the Madras Presidency deprecate in the highest degree toe present seditious agitation, and they are contented and loyal, though the few who may not be so are the ones who make themselves most heard. — Mr. C. Paterson, M.A., LL.B., of Madras. He had paid a visit to Rome and seen the holy father, who was greatly interested to hear of the faith and loyalty of his Maori children in the far-off southern seas. — Cardinal Moran. * * «- * The outlook for boys in New Zealand was becoming alarming, by reason of the restrictions placed upon the number of apprentices and the obstacles placed in the way of deserving lads who from a variety of reasons could not serve time at trades, and yet were prevented from improving their positions by picking up some useful calling.— Mr. A. G. Pearce, oi the Wellington Benevolent Trustees. The opinion has been expressed that musical taste in New Zealand was higher twenty years ago than it was now. That statement he believed to be absolutely untrue. In the wide diffusion of musical knowledge, and the results proved day by day by cultivated teachers, the standard of both vocal and instrumental music was higher to-day.— Mr. J. W. Joynt, Chairman Wellington Musical Union. • • » • Possessing, as we do, a country of great possibilities, and capable of enormous expansion, it is impossible that this development can be brought into rapid effect without a population of men and women living and working under such conditions as will give free scope to their energies and industry. The Dominion is hampered because it contains but a handful of people. — Mr. J. G. Harkness, Wellington Chamber of Commerce. • • • • When a man forsook a lucrative position and devoted his life to those in greater need, he surely deserved all the help and encouragement they could give him.— Mr. J. London, Mayor of Dunedin. « • e a The sentiment of Parliament, and he believed of New Zealand, was against anything in the nature of class schools. —Hon. G. Fowlds. As our civilisation advances, as we become more and more developed as human beings, is it not a fair proposition to say that while we will do all we can to make smooth tne way of the helpless and unhappy we will also step forward and say that we will not allow the mentally and physically unfit to have the high honour of propagating the human race? — Mr. G. Laurcnson, M.P. » • • • Too much attention is paid to the cry, “Let us get on the land,” and there is not enough attention given to those who are struggling on the land. Too much attention is given to the cry of those who are not really anxious to go on the land. ■—Mr. Eustace Lane. • • • * The effectiveness of the submarine mine as a defensive agent is greatly modified by the fact that, although the enemy's ships may be prevented from gaining access to a harbour, the entrance to which is mined, that particular sj>ot is also effectually blockaded against trading vessels. — Captain Richardson, Director of Artillery.

Compel our schoolboys to be taught the rudiments of military drill. You will do it at a time when they are not fighting the battle of life, when you are not taking anything out of their pockets, and when compulsion would be the greatest possible pleasure in the world.— Mr. G. H. Reid, M.P. So far as his experience had gone in visiting the native schools, he had found that in the native'school in almost all districts the children were clean and tidy.— Hon. G. Fowlds. • • • • If the employers intend having a mighty combination, the workers, instead of fighting as so many solitary units, should fight as one gigantic l>ody. —Mr. Thorn, Canterbury Trade and Labour Council. The Mothers’ Union takes into consideration everything which can possibly benefit the rising generation, physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually, seeking to do that from the home as the foundation and root of all that should be best in the character of the child. It seeks to prevent preventible evils, if possible, by inculcating the necessity of conforming to the laws of God. — Mrs. Halliday, Delegate of the Mothers’ Union for Australasia. * • « • After the Auckland Harbour Board spending £21,000 for the benefit of Birkenhead and Northcote. it was not out of the way to ask it to build this wharf at O’Neill’s Point, which would open up a large back country. The Takapuna Tramway Company would spend from £50,000 to £OO,OOO upon the tramways, and making the approaches to the wharf would cost as much as the wharf itself. —-Mr. IF. J. Napier. No one who has not travelled in Germany of recent years can form any idea of the enormous extension of prosperity of this nation, and the manufacturing ■capacity of the country. German towns which 1 knew 25 years ago as small and unimportant places have become great manufacturing cities, well laid out, with fine broad streets. The western ■provinces are dotted with great manufacturing establishments. Thirty years ago there were few or none at all.— Professor Brown. They were isolated from the rest of the Dominion, and had not had that atten"tion from the various Governments that he thought their importance deserved. — Hon. G. Fowlds, at Gisborne. What needs to be emphasised in connection with our export trade is more careful preparation and supervision in the maintenance of quality.— Mr. T. G. Harkness, Wellington Chamber of Commerce. The fire at the Colonial and Foreign Agency Company's premises brought the total number of fires in Christchurch during the past seven months up to 11 . —Superintendent Smith, Christchurch Fire Brigade. He was glad that Sir John Campbell had uie wisdom not to vest Cornwall Park in any local body, because it seemed as if the public men would tamper with these trusts, although they would not think of doing such a thing in their own business. — Mr. IF. J. N apicr. • • • • Grain, that formerly held a prominent place, totalling in value during 1904 £447,347, has almost vanished as an item in the returns, the last year only equalling £79.697. — Mr. J. G. Harkness, Wellington Chamber of Commerce. • « * » For the last ten years the Dominion has Iteen particularly fortunate in enjoying what may he termed “fat years.” —Mr. J. G. Harkness, Wellington Chamber of Commerce. • • • • The jicople. however, were la-ginning to recognise the inequality of the expenditure on railway construction, and the expenditure in Otago and the .South had lieeii £2 per head as compared with the £1 per head in the North. — Hon. G. Fowlds. • • • • I will introduce a Shipping and Seamen's Act Amendment Bill, which will bring our law into line with the recommendations of the Maritime Conference. —Hon J. A. Millar

We might go further and say that through dry pastures, the dearth of sufficient root crops for winter feed, consequent depreciation in value of stock, and other causes, the aggregate loss to settlers this year will amount to mauy thousands of pounds.— Mr. J. G. Harkness, President Wellington Chamber of Commerce. • • • • I desire to say to you that the British people here and elsewhere recognise that our Maori friends were never a conquered foe. We recognise them now as part of ourselves. The words used by one of the chiefs that I had come to bring peace between two races is a figure of speech, because the interests of the Maoris and the British people here are now happily one. — Sir J. Ward at Rotorua. The people themselves in England must contribute towards old age pensions as they easily could do. He took for example the case of a man who, beginning at the age of 20, contributed £1 a year for a pension to begin when ho reached the age of 65. The sum of £1 a year was only a little over 4d. a week, or two-thirds of a penny a day—onethird of the cost of a pint of beer a day. Yet, if the Government earned only three per eent, on its investments and Parliament voted nothing, that £1 would ensure a pension of 8/ a wedlc after 65. — Sir E. TV. Hornbrook, Financial Expert, London. He estimated that a gyroscope weighing ten tons would suffice to steady an ocean steamship of 4,0011 or 5,000 tons, and add enormously to the comfort of passengers on rough seas. — Sir David Gill. ■ I intend to contest the Parnell seat at next election, and will shortly make public announcement of the fact.— Mr. H. G. B. Moss. The wonderful Waihi mine has been proved to such an extent that for many years in the future a large output of gold is assured.— Sir J. IFard. The opening of tlie North Island Main Trunk railway, and the railway feeders that in the natural process would connect large portions of the country now practically untouched by railways, would make visits to Rotorua comparatively easy, and would ensure a much larger and more regular daily and weekly traffic.— Sir J. Ward. As to the general operation of the Gaming Act, there is no doubt nt alt from the police reports we have received that street betting, tote betting, betting at sports and all other more objectionable forms of betting have been enormously reduced.— Hon. Dr. Findlay, Attorney-General. I had the pleasure of viewing Bill Sikes’ cottage, immortalised by Dickons, which is still doing duty ns a dwelling, and is costing its occupier 15/ a week.—Hon. IV. Hall-Jones. There was also noticeable in England a patriotic inclination to support Home manufactures as against those of foreign origin, and this was most conspicuous among the working classes, who have at Inst begun to realise that they are competing with foreigners on unequal terms for the bare right to live.— Hon, IF. Hall-Jones. » * • • Throughout the Waikato and the various parts visited, 1 could not do other than notice the wonderful improvement that our farmers have been making, both in their lands and homes. It is one of the pleasantest sides of country life to see so many settlers upon comparatively small holdings doing so well.— Sir J. Ward. • • • • Unless some of them were careful, they might find themselves carried away by the alluring prospects placed lieforo them by those who would destroy tho existing order of things ami replace ti.em by something which never liaxf been successful, ami which could not be successful without a large number of changes in the present organisation of Society.— Mr. F. E. Baums, M.l*., K.C. It was true he had said he would retire if he could see a man he thought would represent Parnell better than he had done, but he had not. seen anyone who would do so.— Mr. F. Lawry, M.l*.

Mr. Lawry was always clamouring for post offices, and -if he-eontinuerl in Parliament for a few more years it was quite possible that they would find the electorate covered with post offices.— The Hon. Major Harris. ♦ • • • I have never left the House until it closed, and have passed through the session without a headache.— Mr. F. Lawry, Al, . • • * • H< had talked with a number of people regarding the proposal to introduce a blackberry blight, and a good many were opposed to it, and thought the Angora goat was the best means of keeping down the blackberry.— Mr. Duxfield, Farmers’ Union. It must be plain to. everybody that if t' e masters in the Dominion schools were to go Home for a year or two, and take up similar work there, their places being taken meanwhile by English masters, a great deal would be done to broaden education in the respective schools. — Professor P. D. Brown. * • « « Any man who was made of the true material would never run away from a district which had supported him for a long term of years, but he would stick by <t, even if there was a prospect of a hard battle.— Sir J. Ward. « - • • Tn politics, when a man hits you very hard in one eye, your business is to hit him slap-bang in the other.— Sir J. Ward. I think the Farmers’ Union should take an active part in Land Board elections.—Mr. Dux field. • • « • We were given every attention by Mr. Donne, of the Tourist Department. He happened to be in Kotorua while we were there, and took good eare of us. He organised one or two trips on which we were able to see things to the best advantage. Mr. Donne seems to be a suitable man to develop that department.— Sir John Madden. a a a a In connection with the disaster by fire to many settlers, which T regard as a nati<g>al cstTanuty, the Government will supply’grasS seed to all those who have suffeiipd,;-\YjietKer ( they be Crown settlers or those who occupy their own freehold or le'sehold land.— Sir J. tVard. ' Accordingly 1 have under consideration the advisableness of installing in all the larger Government, buildings, as well as in important institutions such as museums, libraries, etc., which house national treasures of incalculable value, systems of automatic fire alarms, so many excellent tyjjes of which are in vogue at present. — Hon" W. Hall-Jones. • • • • 1 took my hat off to you as Lady Flunket; 1 take it off again to you as daughter of the grandest man that Canada lias ever had as Governor-General! — Mr. Simpson, late of Canada. I do not think there is anything at all in these suggestions of swopping seats. I be..eve there is a good deal of rumour a»d a good deal of nonsense in them, and perhaps a great deal of suggestion, it might be said, on the part of some who desire, and perhaps not unnaturally, to be returned to Parliament themselves.— Sir J. (/,; Ward.