NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPTIONS.

Auckland Star, Issue XXXVI, 21 October 1905, Page 9

NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPTIONS.

! Tte ne w Post Office buildings in Ton- I « which ihe Kin:: laid thf founda- ' **innßtiu!«wpk.»il] n.vupy the cite j prist's Ho«pi'a'. o:i *hieh stood the! "j Blnccoat School. The new building j 5 contain »«onimnd*iion for about L wp'rt* sor:"i-.- and potmen. 0) men. w • '•. . y m Jill br r.i tocr with a subI Lffld «-•>' >■■*'««•'««• Th,s ar-j 1 £««"'■ wh.ci v now ,err general . 1 2p".MW b.wld'ngs ,n the city, I <„"., :n"'i <~>i -pa. c !; :i msttcr | ! "iv-* praciicaLiy two ; I «iW t-T" •'C r.c-.nj; raised : 1 above. an« r.he other heina -mk | I ■'"hi- he.Jo*. '-he lovel »t the >treer. | I rtDWrned. i' "i" r"hably follow The j I Zftnlv pl-Jn line- "f the presenc Pcvst I I Afag building.-. Mr. tkainberiain on I L occasion likened the appparance of i *g p 0 at Olfic-e buildings r.o that of in- i cizar boxes. The frontage of | . v Q cn blalding. wh:<*h will be in King | Wward-strcPt. wWI b.- with Port- i Zd"tone. It will probably be three or ( m rears before -he office* are ready j j„ r arupatioa. '1 h- excavation of the! I'-oric 'site, on wiiicli stood the old I jlu'eeoat S.T.nnL for the purposes of r!( . new buih-.ir.-'. will Ik? followed with* jrterKt. f.T it i* 'i'-iii-- there J p:( vbe rtiA-overt-s of areba.-ilotucal m- j ~r « t , When the site for the existing I pni't "ifii-e > ir.'ii building was being ex J a rati;<l !« '"' i: > ,ar - : '-°- S' oor i a I sweimen of an ■•' i Rnman wall as any 1 J ever discover".! in London was f'.uind. j 11, was ten feet •'.:':f i -:. and followed fori j riJ hundred ''-'•'■ — p boundary of St. | Botoiph's Churchyard, now known, with j it; rtim gardens, as "The Postmen's j f'ark.'' ftT.e acd ciortai' it ?eeais to j te composed of. and it i - so hard that j to pick can make ac.i upon ! The Trade L aion Congress in London i -a congress which labour I jj its organised form—took a, vote for I protection 3rd against protection. The j I jssne was quite a fair on?, and 1353,000 j ■1 votes were recorded protection I !and 26,080 in irs favour. Mr. Sexton. lie president. <~x the congress, in his presidential ipeerh. remarked regarding Mr. Chamberlain's scheme: "The babble 1 brl been pricked almost a"* -<->on a= it ! ns inHated. for. like his historic nam»cike. Joseph dreamed a dream and told ft to his brethren, and his brethren hred him and err.-r him forth Iwape | Wilis dream. The policy was as old and | unstable as when practised by Joseph I in die land or the Pharaohs, and bj rhick the products of the labour of the people of Egypt were confiscated for the benefit of Joseph and his brethren.' ! The '•'•Jewi.-h World announces that ♦.here are to be a number of celebrations by the Jewish community in London on _ tie anniversary of the resettlement of I Jw; in England, in the seventeenth eeu- | tary, when they were allowed to return I iy Cromwell at The intercession of MenI nasseh ben I;ra.t:l. the Amsterdam Rabj bi The first da> of the Whitehall Con I ference. at which the decision was taken, I was held on December 4, 1655, and on I j tlut date this yr-d.r j. public dinner will II be held at the Hotel Great Central, ar •: :i .rhicli, besides prominent persons iv the I IjgloJewish community, the communI i;y. the company will include authorities | 0 the era in English history with winch I tie Protector's name i- associated. The New York i.-orrespondent of the I TJailv Telegraph' writes: ••Aet-ordLng to il Mr Pool, ii New York magistrate, tb-re j I is nmro wife desertion mNewYork than in an/ other civilised ctr in the world. In rhe Borough cf ilaniiattan aione. wi'h n population ot less than 3.000.000. he says. tiO.OuO wives i ore deserted parh year. The evil ha; jrim.ti to vnenaeing proportions, and statutes should hp framed' by the State to kill ir. In most cases thr man was « im\x. and expprience showed that thehnsbnnd invariably tired of the wife f-Mner than tin- w'ue of the husband. According to the evirfpnee of Mr Pool's «rirf officer, mothers-in-law and troubiewniP; rektivps are fTen.ueut causes of teeraon. In punishing a wife-beater, Jh Pool said. "'lf it was iv my power/ to skin you alive 1 would do so. you I fcute:" * ) hi the uprnion of Cardinal (tibbon, ■ *ao is spending some time in Long is-1 I ™ just. now,""one of the dangers of I inerica is business corruption.' -Cor-j I [Waiion. comiption is a fixed evil, and | Bust be reckoned with," said he; but I I' 1 is a story as o.'d ;is the world's I iMor?:' he added. Dealing with the pjf'ct ot remedies, for the evil, his "nineuce considers the power oi the j Pws is incalculable, for a rule, the PjW'.c exposures oi pnhlic men are fuWic benefactions." In the Cardiuai's / wimon, nothins; so touches a man's spli- I Aspect as what, the newspapers s;vv ef him. ' p Si" Henry CaropbeFl-Bannermann is e>9 I l e; irs old. / v man j e3S caeer { u i than he | m !?.} ot aTe 'sojourned so long in the I , M shades of Opposition, but that he [ I »« hopas oi a chance is cleaj. from | «•• letter read by at Aber- | And Mr Chamberlain is so fax I i* a ? rae meiit, with, his old political | 2"JJ that he has said-in pr.l-that I pZ~'. aB(1 n° other should have tbe I He will not b»' "too old" IHo 8S Premipr, hip-= go. for Mr GladI \\T , was w ften he demanded it. of I 1 ft! ctor "" and got it. lor the last ■ c - I km, extreme of thrift, occurring ] 1 k! 0 * VaUev ' Wales, has had to I ft !, ]ns * ed by a Bench of Magistrates. I {i,t 7^ aye seemed, at the rirst blush, I tan , £ " 40 hlld been PSLVPd by a i S f f in Six yearS ' fr ° m M I ml* the strsia scv.re and part- | legj r*. smc e Pebmary the wife had I lEh ryia S to live witiiout so much as I'eekl S°f tlle 10/2, wh theiT hi n * outla 7; and the utmost care W h ot P* hi e<l her to do it. She sned h, tor maintenance. It was •fcafcS aI] ' wbo bad tired o[ thek N*ttt ~ C . t °S° t her: she bad been quite Jiljjjjg **> ar >d as he ncrw eomkni m a * ha was starred, this hns--7 be takeTS to admit the steTTl feocj . meat - The admission is no deeVer ' a S ainst a caarge of » »eet ° rder apon him to P ber 6// eoutinn ° D which ' no doubt, she may 8, bat dtre £12S to lis, #■ as J oia * estate oi hers and *Hs flu" 1 * Jwse Btremuons years the I i|* «t her cake, it, is fair hi ttT?, S^3d ha "" '*- What «Js« d- ;d I r awrtai§ marry fort

I The Earl of CLramell, who has cßs-i | posed of his Kilshelan estate to his I tcnanrs, owns property in seven Irish! j counties, which, twenty years ago, was 1 put at a total oi some 28,000 acres. j The property recently sold represent-j ;ed £4000 a. year. The three Irish. i titles, Baron Earlsfort, Viscount Clon-| ! mell. and Earl of Clonmell, were all j ; acquired, in the course of some eight ; years between 1784 and 1793, by John , Scott, the Irish Lord Chief Justice. It' ;is to him that the orthography of Clonmell is due. He'said he should ! like to have it spelt with two l*s. '' j What reason he <rave for this has not, j been recorded, but Ulster King of ; j Arms gave an explanation which was, i perhap?. as good as another. "We all ; know John t-eott," he said: "give him | j one ell—and ho want's another/ He : 1 got it anyhow. j At the beginning of the Rosso-Jap-I ane.se war—the "China Gazette" rej lates—a Japanese gentleman of affable j manners and apparently in the posI session of ample means, landed at j Hongkong, vhere he made cash depo- | sits at several of the local banks. After J tnakinsr the acquaintance of some weal-, thy Chinese merchants, he proposed !to them that they should join him in I forming ;* syndicate to conduct a scrI vk-e or blockade runners with provj- | sions to Port Arthur. His Chinese ! acquaintances cautiously replied that they were not averse to a money-mak-i : ing scheme if a preliminary trial turn- i jed out satisfactorily. Two vessels , were in due course chartered, which j ! trta.de the return, trip to the Russiani I fortress with great success and with no little profit to the partners in the! ' venture. To use an Americanism, it' | a "•cinch.'"' The -Japanese promotjer was overwhelmed with offers of! I money from applicants anxious to get ; ri'h quick. He smilingly accepted them 1 all, and 12 vessels were fitted out and I despatched on the same voyage, under the management of the ingenious ( I sou of the Flowery Land. Suddenly, ! [a ad without warning be disappeared, and his Chinese friends, to their great i mortirication. saw their ships fall one by one into the hands at the Japanese men-of-war on the look-out for prizes. ; Nothing more was ever heard oi the j amiable originator ot the clever. 1 swindle, hut the members of the syndi-i | cate found themselves out of pocket; to the extent of $5,000.000. | A circumstantial story of witchcraft I by means of a. heart stack fall of pins, lately published in a Tiverton newspaper, is only one of many similar examples of surviving superstition in the West Country of Bngland, Not. so long ago a field of standing barley was "over-, looked"* by an old woman who desired to add the land to her own adjoining acres. When the owner of the barley sent his men to ctrt it down the ewfeter, it is said, would not cat. neither would, the horses move. The farmer promptly ' borrowed a neighbour's cutter, and that promptly fell to pieces. He had it repaired, and borrowed his neighbour's □ or"=es and m**n; then,, and not until then, did the stubborn barley yield to the attack. The explanation of sueress" i given by the farmer himself was thai; tbe borrowed horses and men had not | been included in the "overlooking." The Kaiserin Anguste Victoria, which was lanrwrhiid last mouth at Stettin for the Hamburg-American Company, is not only the largest German steamer; she is tor the time being he largest steamer in the world. The White tftar Line has enjoyed the position of owning the largest steamer in the world since January, j 1899, when the Oeean'c wsts launched. And iv Xore:nber, 190.'). when the Baltic was launched, she was larger by 3700 ■ cons than the largpst steamer under any other tiag. Now, however, the Baltic. with h«?r 23.756 tons gross, is only second to the Kaiserin Anguste Victoria of 25.0C10 loas gross, white the displacement of the Baltic. :>9,0Q0 tons, falls ! short of the displacement of the new German steamer by 3500 tons, for it is ' 4'.L500 tons, it is less than ten years sin.'c the Germans launched their first, steamer of over 10.000 tons. It wr*3 only j a lew weeks ago that the first steamer or over 20.000 tons was launched tor them at Belfast, and now. with their second steamer, they lead the way m tonnage. It is stated also that in regard to the accommodation for passengers the arrangements are to be at once , j novel and luxurious, beyond any thing ! 1 that yet has been seen afloat. In one j ii point the new steamers are not to con- [ tinue the rivalry which has long existed on the Atlantic: 17.500 horse-power is Ito be the comparatively moderate power of the engines, and with that power a speed of eighteen knots is expected. They I are. therefore, not meant to be ocean 1 rac<»T?. but large carriers, both of pas- j I senders and cargo—cheaper to build and j I cheaper to work than the class of ocean I racprs. When the two great Cunard liners are ready there will be larger ships an,i swifter than the new German j steamer under the British flag, but the j I higher speed of the British vessels will j be. 0 purchased at the cost of a great inI crease of ontlay, and that (writes a correspondent of the "Daily Graphic"*) lis not a good thing in these days of keen competition on the ocean. 1 A correspondent of .a London journal I raises a remonstrance against the system of •-'tipping" in private houses prevalent in the Highlands. "I have just returned," he writes, "from enjoying the \ hospitality of a friend at a shooting i party at his place in Scotland. His noe- | pita'lity cost mc some two guineas a 1 day. in addition to what it cost him. I would rather be a 'paying guest' in a hotel than in a friend's house. It is more comfortable and more self-respeet-insr." Two guineas a day in tips is just a trifle high. j In the hair a century Erom 1850 to \ 1900. -when tbe population, of the United SfcatPS increased from to 76.000,000, or multiplied three and oneI third times —a rate of increase far beyond that oi any other great country— its wealth expanded from 7.000,000.000 dollars to 94,000.000,000 dollars, being multiplied more than 13 times. No other country (says "Leslie's Weekly^) closely approaches the United States in wealth. !FVom the most trustworthy data obtainable this is how the principal countries stand in 1805:— Dollars. ] Spain 12,000,CQ0.?K50 j j4ly » 18,000,090.000 Austria-Hungary 30,000#»,000 Russia '- — 3.^000,000,000 France .~ 45.000.000/ m I Germany 50,000,000^00 United Kingdom .. 55,000,000,000 United States .. 110,000,000/300 Wealthier than the tva eonntries —i the United Kingdom and the Bnpire of j \ Germany —which stand nuearest to it. j the United State* ie rapidly wereasuig [its fe*i «rer otfcac #**■«*. i