Another Story.

Now, I wil tell you a very creditable thing out the young colonials. It is a very rare [unclear: ng] to find a young colonial that drinks, and laughter and boohooing.) Now, when [unclear: as] at Waiwera the other day there happen-to be there at the same time a [unclear: tleman] who had got a large quantity of d-1,0000 acres of fine agricultural land. [unclear: And] he was a very good sort of [unclear: was] too, although he had got plenty of [unclear: d] (Laughter.) Some of you think that [unclear: e] is no good in a man when he happens have a large quantity of land, but I tell [unclear: that] there is not one of you mad enough to [unclear: e] a piece of land if he could honestly get it. [unclear: for] myself, I have never owned an acre agrecultural land in my life, but the only [unclear: on] for that is that I could not buy it. [unclear: ughter].) I was speaking to this land-owner about myself, and I said to him, "What sort of fellows have you got working about your place?" He replied, "Mostly young colonials." I asked what he thought of them. He said, "My experience of them is grand; none of them drink." (Cries of "You don't say so?" and loud laughter.) It is a fact. The young colonial that drinks is the larrikin about the city. (Cheers.) And that man simply told me, gentlemen, the very same thing that I have observed myself throughout the colony—that the young colonial sticks to his work like a man and that he is a grand fellow. (Cheers.)