THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2710, 24 July 1891, Page 2

THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN

VALLSY_WARDSN. fTha Spirit of tha Times shall tßaoh m 3 spscd. —King Mb, Act if. FRIDAY JULY 24, 1891.

The position of the Jews in the I civilised world is an anomalous one, : they are a nation without a home, and as such they have been bandied about j from country to country, and split up i.ito small communities, but nothing seems able to destroy their individuality or to cause them to merge iuto the nationality with which they sojourn. As an ethnological study they afford an interesting but somewhat eaddening object 5 possessed of a high state of civilization and a history, in times when the great nations of to-day had no existence, they have sunk from their proud position to one so humble that their very residence in a country such as Russia is only a question of the whim of a despotic potentate. From the earliest times of civilization in Europe the sca'tered Jewish communities have been subjected to more or less barbarous persecution and to political and social disabilities. The cause of this treatment, we do not propose to enquire into, many and various have been alleged, and the effect is doubtless due to the co-operation of several of them. The cure for the preseut state of things however seems to be one, and one only. The total number ot the Jewish nation is estimated at eit,ht millions, of which three a-e !ivin» in Russia, somewhat over half the total numberin Europe. Strangely enough, in England, whore they have been fully emancipated since 1858, the number is only 70,000 ; but there is nevertheless a feeling training ground that it is not desirable that the number should be increased by the immigration of Russian Jews, most of whom belong to tho poorer classes. In most ether European couutries there is also a dislike to allow the Jews now being expelled from Russia to effect a settlement, and in some it has taken so active a form as the forcible prevention of their entrance, notably in Roumania and Austria. The United States, I which until recent years welcomed all corners, has now such stringent immigration laws as will prevent the great majority of the exiles taking refuge ! there. Baron Hirscb, one of their wealthiest and noblest protectors, has endeavoured to arrange for their deportation to South America to settle them in the Argentine Republic, but it is an open question, whether in the long run, their condition will be appreciably ameliorated. The same conditions will be created there as exist elsewhere, viz , the isolation of ♦he race from those amongst whom it lives, and this being assured by all previous experience, is it not a logical deduction that the same effects will be produced, >iz., dislike and ill — I treatment? Wheiever the Jews are located in numbers, tbey have their own institutions, synagogues, schools, hospitals, boards for the relief of the distressed yf the race etc., why not therefore .let the endeavours of philanthropists be devoted to founding a Jewish state in some of the vast territories of Africa, for instance, and let it be governed and peopled by the deported Russian Jews and all others \vho could be induced to leave the adopted countries which love them not. Such a project based more on sentimental than practical grounds,, has been mooted with regard ti their old abode,- Palestine, but it is urged against this that the country is under a hostile government, that it is alreaJj peopled, and that it is not sufficiently large or fertile to support a population much more numerous than its present scattered inhabitants. This iidea has therefore been practically abandoned, but there is, we think, no reason why it should not be carried out in a more suitable". locality, where the infant state might be watched over and protected by a joiot committee of European powers, until it was sufficiently established to look after its own interests. We cannot but feel that this would be conferring a more, permanent benefit on this unfortunate race, than merely transplanting their communities from the environment of one foreign people to another, however promising the conditions may appear to be at first sight.

The Returning Officer for the Waimapu Licensing District notifies the result of the local option poll which was held yoterday. Tho amount of interest taken was exceedingly small, the highest number of votes recoided on any of tbe issues involved, being 9. The poll has decided against an increa;^ in any das* of license. Wo draw attention to the new advertisemects in connection with the Ulster Smith Works, Devonport Road, "vrhioh are now occupied by Mess's Hum and Parker, who are canying on all the multifarious branches of smith's and conch bntlder's businesss 1 ? in a workmaulike manner emineurly sari-fi l ry lo their customers, aud calculate! to greatly increase their business.

The Brass Band guva a free open air concert in j.he Damiin v<Hterday afternoon which wasjnumorou-sly attended and much appreciate! by the audience. A number of new seats/ in" the vicinity of the tundstand added greatly lo the cgtafort of the pubic. A programme of sefen items was g-me through,/ the perfcrniers a'l acquitting most creditably, after which the b .n& marched back to: their room, Wharf St., playing lively airs. We hope this is the precursor of many pleasant musical afternooiii in the Domain. \^s' Mr Wiiliam Buchanan purchaser of this paper with ita plant and book debts notifies all persons indebted, to the Proprietary that the amounts due are to be paid to Mr G-. Arnold Ward, and to no other person. A Rescue Home will be opened in Auckland on the 2/ J ud inst. by the Salvation Army. This makes four Rescue Homes that the Army has in the Colony. During ]dst jear, ot 250 crises passsd through the various Homes, from 70 to 75 pjr c^nt prove! satisfactory. The Army has now *3 Rescue Homes in various parts of the world, with a staff of 210 orticei-s, dealing with 2000 cases per annum. * Mr Bodell advertises that he has for sale eeverel hund; ed pinus in3ignus and macrocarpa; also, superior Dsrwent table potatoes. Capt. Ei win wired at 1.44 p m. to-day; — ''Glass further rise and frost to-night, or weather continue very cold. ■ The Minister Kfor Immigration is being ur^ed by Mr W. Kelly to place a sm*ll sum on the Estimates for the purpose of nominated immigration, to be confined exclusively to divided families. A delegation from Dr Barmrdo's Home has reached the colonies in the charge of the Rev Walter J. Meyers. There are eight lads who have received a good manual aud rausicnl training, and they will givo entertainments with the object of raning fun-l* for the building of a now home for girh m Essex. The party are at present iti Sontb Australia, and are due in New Zealand two ■ months hence Mr Meredith has given notice to call the attention of the Government to the burdens thrown upon the Charitable Aid Boards by accidents in fl-;x mills, and to ask whether | they will insist on such appliances beiug used as will make it almost impossible for accidents to happen. Baron Hirsch intends to form a great English Company to conduct the emigration of refugee Jews, he himself holding a majority -;f the shares. He states that he finds the selection of suitable directors, and not the scarcity of money, is the chief difficulty to be surmounted. The Admiralty have decided that four of the se ren vessels composing the Australian Squadron are to be employed on active service f«>r the protection of floating trade in Austruksiau waters, the remaining thrae being- paid off into the Australian R9ierve, aud kept fully eqaippsd and reaiy fou sea at short notice. Trie ships which, are to be kepi iv commission are the third-class cruisers K -itooinb.i, Ringarooma, aud Tauranga, and the first-class qua b >at Boom :ran^.

The height to whioh a surge will ddsh is of course, dependent on mmy things ; but at Tuliamock Lighthouse, Oregon, U.S , the roof of the keeper's house was recently broken by a blojk of basalt, weighing 621bs , which was c tst up by the water. The roof is 110 ft., jtb-jve the sea level, and water also came down the chimney of the boiler house in torrent 3, although its elevation is 130 ft. above sea level. The spray entered the cowl of the chimney over the lautern of the tower, which is 150 ft above the aea. The body of Mr Patrick Purcoll, was gtohn from the grave at Ottawa recently, the supposed object of the thieves being to blackmail tne heirs. Mr Porajll left a fortune of £2,000,000. Rev T. DeWitt Talmage's new Tabernacle at Brooklyn was opened on a late Sunday for the first time. The collwctiou for the day amounted to £10,000. During the Public Trust Inquiry the fact waa elioted that the insurance fund in the Land Transfer Department, whioh is mada up of an ad valorem fee of in the £on the value of the prope-ties dealt with, and ia intended to make good any claims arising under the State guarantee, has accumulated to the exteut of £80,000, The claims nude on the fund have oaly amounted to some £1,500 or £1,3~,0. Miss Sophy G. Htyden, who was recently awarded the first prize for her design of the Women's Building to be erected in the World's Fair, is considered one the best draughts-women in America. She is very 3 r oung, scarcely out of her teens, and is already a successful professional teacher of mechanical drawing. She graduated from the Institute of Technology in 1590. For three weeks the young girl devoted her spare time (the intervals between tuition) to working at a design for the Women's Building. To her surprise she won the first priza, and was iuformed that the building in the Columbus Exhibition, 1892, would be erected on her plan. A glass case just placed in the Mammals Gillery of the British Museum contains a series of specimens of two of the largest species of Asiasiiu wild sheep, collected and presonted to the nation by Mr St. George Littledale, the well-known sportsman. Three of these represent Marco Polo's sheep [OvispoU) from the Pamir Range, and three ;of them the Ammon (Ovis ammon) of the Altai. These are, we believe, the first perfect specimens of Ovis poll, the finest and largest of all the Asiatic sheep that have yet been brought to England, the species being generally known unly by its horns, which are remark ible for their enormous size and width. — Xaturc.

A bee-keeper living ueir a large hotel living built at Kinrst'in, in Jamaica, recently found his hives iv the utmost confusion, with ninny bees lyinar about exhausted and dead. The electric light was used at the hotel to carry ou the building operations by night, so rhe bees mistook the light for daylight, iiud went out to collect pollen arouud t^e neighbourhood thus illuminated. When they came home the day was dawning and they flew off again without any reit till they worked themselves to death. $/ The latest application of electricity to the uses of daily life has been invented and perfected by a New York physician. He Jans completed telephonic connections between the v\'»vds of the City Hospitals and the reception rooi'irf, so that pitients suffering from infectious diseased may safely communicite with theirs visitors. A board in the reception room contains the names. of the patients, and an attendant has only to put the plug into the hole beneath any "name when any friend desireV to speak with toe occupant of j a cot up stairs. This has baen f mnd to work with groat success, and the plun is to be adopted by the other hospitals. \j Though the Koran forbids the drinking 1 of wine, ife is sii-nt as to beer, and the Turks are gradually taking to that biver*ge, which they know under the name of "barley water." The bulk of it is at present supplied from Austria by* sea, but the imports ov r erlaud from Buvaria are steadily increasing, and seem likely before long to get the upper hand. The Austro-Huugariau Chamber of j Commerce at Coustamiuople is our authority for this statement. The National Bank of New Zealand shares j in London are quoted at 2h discount in con- ] sequence of apprehensions as to what may • be the sequel of the failure of the English ! jau<c of the .River Plate. j Captain B?lfield Woolcorabe, R.N., the oldest settler of £ im*ru and R.M., fur niiny years, was fouud dead in bed on Wednesday . morning. I