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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 10, 29 June 1888, Page 11

The Port Elizabeth correspondent of the Somerset £. Budget says :— Diogenes, who has been on the prowl, telis me his siory as follows :— " And I asked a bystander a scan iin by whose meeting it waz and he said they waz the Frea Thinkers a-havin a Convention." And I sez " How free"? And he sez "There waz great cause to doubt everything: they doubted whether tk-^y wuzornot, and if they wnz or when ; and if bo why ? " And I sez, " What are they going to teach to-night," and he at z <The whyness of the What." And I Bez, " Don't they believe anything easier than that," and he sfz"They don't believe anything—that is their belief is to belfcve nothing." " Nothing ? " sea I. " Yes " sez he ;'• nothing," and to-morrow they are a-goin to prove beyond any question that th«re ain't anything and never wuz anything." "Be they," sez I " Te»* sez he, " and won't you come sod be coorioed ? "