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SE THE LURE OF ENGLAND.

BY A NEW ZEALANDER:

The scheme of things has -altèred altogether. Only a few months ago we fretted in the winter weather that our own country. had forgotten us, and we were doomed forever to dwell semi-frozen in an eternal twilight, strangers in a strange land, too lonely to appreciate its changing tones and shadows. To-day the ships are at the wharves, waiting

and we would linger a little longer, trying to determine if we are not fools to go away at alt: If Mons is as far away to you as Waterloo, how can we be expected to remember we had colds in December, and ugly, throaty coughs in February?

This desire to stay where one is as old as the Crusades. We are traitors to the Southern Cross; but we have more to lure us than ever had any man-at- arms who went absent without leave in the Levant. All England is singing to us, even the counties which uien count as inarticulate. We have the bread of man and all of man's desire. We have .bours to drone throngh in the sunlight, not idle as one listens To the Pacific, but busy listening to tales told long ago of things done well or ill-but all of them done by our fathers. We are at liberty to go here and there, to watch the changing of the ways. Last week we saw a little donkey and an old horse driven tandem in Norfolk, carry- ing kelp to be used as fertiliser. Yesterday we watched a motor tractor harrowing light land in Sussex. To-night a party is down in our camp from the Three Arts Club in town. A girl is playing the banjo just ragtime staff to set the feet stamping and the fingers snapping. The big boots have been

the time to beating

loud- twanged chords, and she has done the impossible by making men call out their applause. We are children, and she had guessed that; but she doesn't know yet that when she strummed "Swanee River" as an encore she made

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seventeenth annual and shadow. The heat of the woods day ay outside, the quiet of the winter comes very soon. There general meeting of the Tronoh Mines, Ltd., was held at the evening came to us slowly, so is sunlight often, over there. slowly that we scarcely knew the Coming down from the land of Cannon Street Hotel, London, day was drawing in and that the dreams, who asks anything better EC., on the 11th. Janc. Mr. first of the stars was out. We these long evenings than the Charles V, Thomas (chairman) heard the cuckoo calling an hours of wrath in our camps presiding. "echo of an echo, as absurd and where tradition doesn't count for The Secretary having read the impossible as any appurtenance much. Come from Watteau to notice convening the meeting of a clock made in Germany for Hogarth get close to what my and the auditors' report... the export from Switzerland. Going Canadian friend calls "the raw Chairman said, in the course back we saw the swallows-the red end of life." Sit in the row., of his remarks that turning swifts darting in and out the outside the, canteen, side by side to the balance-sheet, there were thatch. We heard the rooks, set with your mates, drinking beer two or three items to which he tling noisily in trees older than our out of a tin dixie. listening had referred in previous years, of those trustee stocks of £3,000, (1918-19 of £10,749, and the in- nevertheless, the trustee come-tax suspense account, being mother towns. And. lest we to the cries of the gamblers, but, speaking quite candidly, he but should forget, we looked down on watching the living, remember was afraid some of the sharehold-stocks showed a depreciation still deductions from dividends in ex- the terraced view points of what ing how Life is a pageant. anders and some of the critics outside of rather over 21 per cent. At cess of assessment to be carried- had been a Roman amphitheatre. goes by. We are here from all were in danger of losing sight of the end of the year they had in forward, "of £17.050, making a The property And we looked up to where the the world, in this corner of them.

and War Loan and National War total of £27,399 Out of that sum than amount. Then there were sundry forgotten men had carved their Wiltshire. That sergeant who machinery account now stood at Bonds, no less a White Horse to be an everlasting went off then joined up in Dune- the entirely nominal figure of £64,700, while in mining shares items of unclaimed dividends memorial of their little lives; and din, New Zealand, and is taking £5,000, and for that they had the the cost in the books was amounting to nearly £4,000 in of those excess of last year, wing to the we saw, too, the Rising Sun' the his discharge in San Francisco, mine, together with the plant and £70,205. Particulars "Aussies" have cut down to the He says he comes from Cape machinery and the two dredges, raining shares would be given fact that the dividend for Decem eternal chalk. Only a little way Town. Perhaps.

it is his and although the open-cast work to any shareholder who desired ber was not paid until December away our Kiwi is taking shape. business, anyhow. An "Aussie "ing which they were cow on had to have them. The mining shares, 21, so that those on the Eastern The eternal chalk shall bear our drifts along to sell, a pair only quite a limited future, they at a market value which he list of shareholders and many were still out- mark-maybe the only lasting of boots" Aussies have the had still a large area upon which thought was safe and below the English ones brand we shall leave.

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on a sidling, in the shadow of the dixie, and stays to yarn about what be said three or four gone down 21 per cent. at the showed an increased profit during glen-though we did not phrase Bakst as a dress designer. and years ago, that there was not end of last year, the mining the year of £55,483. The increas it like that. It was all halfdark, Gordon Craig's theory of stage only profitable ground for the two investments had shown an appre-ed price of the tin ore accounted a green and dripping twilight, lighting and the. Bickerstaff dredges, but also in the No. 6 ciation of 92 per cent. Putting for £68,850 and increased quantity odorous of decay, like some Brothers as poster artists, He mine for the dredge which they it plainly, there was a market of ore for £39,000, but against déserted cathedral whose roof says he reckons he will catch the ordered two years ago, which, value for the company's invest- this there were increases amoun dripped moisture whose floor sheds on the Westera Border. owing, to the war, could not be ments at the end of last year:in ting to over £52,000, leaving £55,- was thick with life not yet come... reckons he will get on as then proceeded with but which round figures, of £250,000 as 483, the amount he had already to definition. As we went into an off-sider: "Kerosene Jack has was now in hand, and would, against £192,000, the amount,opgiven. The directors had already the bush we might hear strayed had a letter from "The Fase, he hoped, be working within pearing in the balance sheet It declared dividends for 1918 of

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months, was not necessary for him to 50 per cent, and they had to-day (43) to the paradise duck's on the wet taken the pub over after all, Shareholders would, therefore, see refer to their holding of some-declared a second interim divid valley bottom we might see wonders if the publican's wife is what

they possessed thing like seven-elevenths of the Fem of is. per share in respect of entirely red deer if we had no rifle. still looking after his swag. Then for that

nominal Sungei Best Mine because the the current year, which would be Inside only a solemn little tom-tit there's a man who ran the sprints sum of £5,000. The investments annual meeting of that company payable about the middle of zez came down to hear the ringing with me in 1908, and took his now stood at "£192,826, and they would immediately follow this and mouth. The report and accounts azes, and to see the white, waren degree when I did not. Saye he were put in at cost price. It shareholder chips fly wide. All the world was is teaching in a country school would interest shareholders, no fremaigi and

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a world away, somewhere beyond when he is at home... The Aussie know the threefold nature of tha

the fringe of the woods; and not has sold his spare boots, and lost investments, although, as a matte there, further off, forty miles the cash at "crown and anchor of fact, he had referred to it em beyond the hills, a hundred miles Sells the boots he is wearing. Yesg for some years pask Out railway line T Loses that cash, too. Sets off to the total of £192,826, the trust

Ewalk home in his socks. Det stocks stood, at cost £ £58.02 only to be It is time to go

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