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Show The London Times pays a high tribute to the Maoris. It says that they are bright aa dollars, that they pick up and do what they aee done, and that they have greyly improved their farms by imitating British Australian methods. A good many of them now Indulge in motor cars, and they want the very best make. Their latest exhibition of progressiveness is that they have connected great many of their villagee by telephone, the lines having been erected by themselves. There waa a meeting recently to extend the telephone service. A wash hand basin waa set up in their midst to receive re-ceive contributions and in two days ajore than 500 was thrown into thia basin. : The account aays t took two days' talk to settle the business end of the project, during which time there was a prodigious pro-digious eating of pork and fish. In the evening, when conversation ia slack over the telephone, then they take to the graphophone. A great deal can be made out of primitive man if he ia of the right stock. |