| Show PROFESSIONAL ORATORS Gen Bullers Buller's blazing Indiscretion re recalls recalls recalls re- re calls the discovery made made- nea nearly ly thirty years ago by the late Lord the Cape Governor who went up to Pr Pretoria Pre Pre- toria torla at the time of the Jameson r raid id to reassure President Kruger Ir to the best of his diplomatic ability ability- When Lord then Sir Hercules RobInson Robinson Rob- Rob Inson was Governor of New South Wales in the early It fell to his ot to admit the erstwhile cannibal kingdom or Fiji as an integral part r of the h he British m empire During the inci mci- dental ceremonies he noticed that hone of the great fighting chiefs spoke in Person and that each of them had a professional orator on his staff As As an aa Irishman with a strong sense senie sense of humor humor hu hu- hu- hu mor sir Hercules was naturally naturally- tickled by y such a novel situation And nd when ha g got 4 back to Sydney he repeatedly eulogized the arrangement pointing out ui that the man of action was WitS very rarely arely a man marx of words and that civilization civill- civill atlon might very well learn a lesson front rom Pacific London Chronicle |
