Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — An Exhausted Resource. [ARTICLE]

An Exhausted Resource.

When Mr. Paterson, tlie Australian war correspondent, was at the Maoriland Hot Lakes, the local Maoris were very anxloud to hear all about a war, so by special request he lectured to them. At the end of the discourse the Maoris all began to Jabber at once, and the translator turned to Paterson with a beaming smile and said: "There is one ting none of us understun’.” “W hat is that?” “If te troops so hungry why not eat te Boer?”-Sydney Bulletin,