TOPICS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

.Wellington's Industrial Exhibition, far the greater hotiour Mid Ttehemm glwy of the !few Zea- « ?iui ? land rand ) has fun its E*hibiti«i, two moat-hs' cotiree, and , the end crowned the work wen. Ihfe Chief Commissioner. Mr. T. BaJlinger, idag a happy mm on Sftterday roght, and he had good cans* for gladn^sfc and cofflplim^M* to those who have fitfcnuotifely kseiated hint. -Thnntgh&ut th© fft.fr a good head of the steam of enthtisiaftm kept the wheels goifie ai?otittd merrily. The cft.ll to the people Wfts given with strong manly voice, and the people Miswcred adtntfftblj-. Both the ijfomotew and the public hay© the right to k4 heartily pleased with the sucees* of ih c enterprise. The turnstile* wgirtewd a, total attendance of 164.620, and the net ptotite are e»timat«d at about £2000. There i# no doubt that the extensive displays of excellent. New Zealand tramufacWea must have usefully, cdncated great nnmbets of people, adults a-nd children, who needed a thorough lesson on the indu*< trial power of their own country. ! Ihere is no excuse now for ignorance I about the merit* of the law " made in New Zealand." This province has been I stirred, and the fervour here hfle served to rouse other provinces to emulate the Wellington IndtTsbrkd. Association's example. The task now is to prevent the people froin i lapsing into indifferehce about the claims of New Zeaknd's goods m New Zealand's favour. The manu fftcturers hay*; been helped by the Exhibition, and it is for them to be vigilant and energetic to push the advantage gained. We should like to have earnest, thonght given to the piopo«,-il to use the profits of the fair as an aid to the establishment of an indnatrifll hall fof ft permanent display of this country's pro* ducte, primary and secondary . * Thift topic «hrj«ld be debated at the next meeVing ol the Industrial Association. When the W. T. Stead picture of Australia's Prime Minister, Fisher Mr. Andrew Fisher, wa« on Stead, presented to the woflii ' a few dftye'ago, it wm freely remarked that the Fi&h«r of the Stead bi'ilflh was not the Fisher whom reasonable men thftfttglwat the Empnt* had kurned to respect. It certainly was not a "speaking likrart*s." as the Post wplained at the t?m*». At Coiorntn? on Sa-UiTday th<» wal Mr. fisher was introduced to the " fsteade*que " Mf. Fisher, and he waft pained by thfl "grotesque mififeprepent-ation," a* he indignantly put it. "Such expression? wi>uw not be dmloya-lty, but insanity. They w«uld bo brutal a-nd monptroui," decktetl the Federal Premier, repndiat ling ill* p«vuli»r »g<4-l»p«i*J opinioni

Attributed to him by the. impelu6u» Wit, Stead, who is busy now with an efbrt to serve up the Grand Turk, with «ll 'Bintftblft piquant «ance. The brusque Mr. King O'Malley's phra*e, "a, sjrook interview," is practically Bupported by Fishet, who was unfeeognigabi* «St«r t he had beeh run through the machinery of the Review of Reviews. He must realise now that it is an awful ■experience to be caught up in the Steafl belting and whirled around on the fly wheel for the world's Wonderment. Wr. do not suspect that Mr. Stead httendcu to give a distortion of Mr. Fisher to the worlc?. but his hafite did do -Mr, Fishet v grave injustice. The wofkt has reason to accept Mr. Fisher* Mr. Fisher in preference to Mr. Stead's Mr, Fisher. The tempestuously emotioh&l JoufnaliVrt's Mr. F«her had the stage for a few days, tfr a. crowded but hostile "house,"' but torn the poof thing i« off the boards, artd is bandied away smong aome other Stead ."properties." Mt, Fisher* exp*rrence ehottld be « memo/able lesaon to other prdmifteTit colonial statesmen who visit Londw. They shoflM keep well out of Mr. Stead's ra-ng«t Of course, Eichard Arnst id fetill head of the river, and his latent Atn&t, victim, Harry featce, will go down 611 the records 69 a challenger— -nothing more, so far 8» the world's championship is concerned. The errsmpion's victory is no pofprise to those who have ebstJy studied the men and their peffdl'manceg. The apparent hollownesfe- of th© dpfeat, however, is in the nature of a ' surprise. Arnst has learned itt a good school to takfe care of himself. AL*o, he apprehends the value of a match well made. After all the fury of tli* critics on the »pot, and the thrilling repbTt#~*moß.tly clever methods of advertising a* they appeated from this di&tance-Mhe champion has once again demonstrated both his re* markable prowess in v th* boftt and hrs Btage-craft. Three years ago, as a rough novice in the art of rowing, brtt, gifted with an abnormal endurance a.n<l strength and a genermia capacity for taking pains, the New ZealandeT, ftis chance ' undermined by influenza, well beat his riyftl of Saturday, who was then accredited a ftrst'ckes waterman or thereabout*.' Sitreo that day Arust has b&stt highly tried and never found wahting, while the Cornstalk htot cut a wide swathe amongst such of his con* temporaries, whose refetttatioiTS, however, were either fcehhid thdrti a lortrf v». or irebulotrs in the distawt futtrre. So far as records, go, the mm were not In -the same classj and Saturday's taes proves it practically beyond argument. It was hard for dispassionate observers to see how Arnst could lose, except he was unlucky. Achievement, times, years, meite physical endowment— in all theEe the champion was advantaged, and .his- skill is at least «gtisl to that 6f hi* cftgltenger. h may U gaggestetl that Peafce, in training a long time, had gone stale. Shotdd that be put forward, Armt will no doubt give the no--ti«! his besi sttppMt. Mea,nwhik, it looks as though etnbryo and -wotild-be ehattpions fill have to rtt back ftfid" wsflt efrtil old Time has fraternised stif^ n««n«y long and familiarly with the New Zeaknder, who is, certainly, a bold advisement for the Dominion. The. emotional cablegram of the race painte ft vivid picture 6f the distress of the contesfcaflta And Arnst, at tme time leading by ten lengths, after being «top. ped > twice, panelled home foui* feneth* S-i^^V^**^^ • "the hardest race of h IS Me" This h nftttering to Pearce, for Barry had that compliment previously, and others before Barry. > I The stwees&fttl concision of the Daily Xhouaand-Mile Air Ua«e marks an.. Air Race. otli&r stog» in, the t n 1 *> r °gre*s of aviation, lit the first place it i» easily the longest crosscountry tour that ha# yet been performed on an aeroplane. Again, the fly> mg was practically eenlimtoflß in the day ume, commeaqing on the 22nd July afirf finishing on the 26th. other long flights have been checked by «J&y» of bad fwnef, m, for ihfet&hce, in the PwisLondon Kaoe, when fourteen airmen refused to proceed, on their way from Brussels on account of heavy winds. Then the actually flying time found the circtiifc was nearly two hours -under the twefity.four, the speed averaging fifty mile* an hottr. No land locomotion coald have covered the distance from town to town—London — Harrogate— Newcastle. Carlisle — Manchester ~ Bristol — Eieter — Salisbury Plain «. firightonfu? B^ klM!ds { in anything like the iut' , ? hh f f wa« by no means all that could be desired by the men of the atr. Between. Carlisle and Manchester the two leaders who wtruggled for the mastery were buffeted about by torrential rainstorm* &nd violent gusty winck 80 the tour was a genuine teat of the «&rofol»he of to-day, and the aeroplane has come out of it with flying colours. The only *u\ difficulty now ee*ros to be that of navigating from point to point. M. Vedrmes, who led during tho first half of the .tour, lest the first pri?^ through losing his way. Thi* appears worn other accounts also to be a seriotw problem in airmanship. To have to descend from the clouds to. enquire the way is not only humiliating but dafl. gerotts, and yet on these long overland journeys aviators have frequently to resort to tlm practice. Not unlikely tt was the experience of M. Beaumont, who is really Lieut. Oonneau, of the French Navy, in ocean navigation that itelped him to steer a fighl conrw m the sir the £10,000 prize. In warfare it would be a grave drawback for the air^eouts to lose their way. Finally the race has established the absohrte superiority of the monoplane, the French monoplane, and the French airmen. It was a cane of M. Beattmont fir&t, M. vedrnies lsecond, and the re«t, mostly English airmen like Mr. 8. F. Codv nowhere. Yet, we think nobedu-will begrttdge the hunm of the" Paris-Home and the Paris-Madnd air races their het great triumph. France is not deoadent when she can produce such machines and such men.

A lar^e area of bush ia being felled in Poverty Bay this season. The Herald reports a scarcity of bushmen. An old Taranaki resident has stated that such a mild winter as the present has not been experienced in Taranaki for three or four decades. As a result of a canvass in Pahiatua over £60 has been subscribed towards the building fund of the Presbyterian Orphanage m Wellington. j -Firat-elsstf eating potatoes are being retailed from door to door in Ma*terton by natives at 12s 6d per mck (state's the Waintrapa Age). Asked why he had. entered the retell business, one of the natives sttoh "My friend, he like the money to go to the Pictures," Rabbits are said to be increasing at an alarming, fate in North Canterbury and ia the Ashbttrton distriot. The, increase is said to be dug mainlf ti> the fact that the fiver beds aro getting thickly covered mbh gorse and Brootn, thus affording ideal sanctuaries for the pest. The sculls used by Arnst on Saturday aro the flame pair h« used in his races with Barry, Webb, Whelch, in the Parramatta Httfldfed, and Wanganui Handicap, and were manufactured by Mr. Marry Norton. Welfington. They are jriade of selected Russian spruce, aftd aro 9/fc 6irt long, with bJacfes 7in'w i ide. Owing to the shortage of sleepers tolatelaying has been delayed oit the CsAhns fail wa^ e*ten^ioii, Most of the rrteh are engaged t'n the cutting^ between Puketifo and Cabeffeidh atufiong, ft«d*o« come of the big cuttings there are iwo ahilfca on eacfi end, and the ivofft of tilt* itig in the de«£ gullies *hoaM aot take ftidny tfio/e ffloftths to complete. The pla-iKf' of the hfg§ war/eh&ase, •which is shot tly to be erected By SharJaml and CU for their ow« ti«e oft the «i{« of jE.he Schoothott«6 ift Dixoft-etreetr, long in the occupation of the Sisters of Jlercy, provide for a building with a frontage of 7? feet and * depth of 270 feet. The warehouse; which will he three stofeye high, ha# been designed by J, GharieaWM'th, v?ho is calHflg tenders for the work, "A municipal milk supply for Thn^mt would east alttiflsfr as Mtfcfi as the" underground drainage," was ihe statement* made by a well-known citizen of that town, "feti wottld i-equlrev for a sfcflft," explftitied the citi^n, "300 cows, which would invofVe an initial otttlay of about £2500. Yfltt Would fertlier require about 600 acres <tf krtd, wblcb, sifctmted within a reasonable distance of Tiffidra, &n4 at the present rttUnjj prices, would dost about (fhen yotl have your buiitiing^, eondfete^ffoor dftiried, fencing, delivery vrttis m& hd?sm. which, would probably cost another £4000 at £6000. Then you would require to have your managerial epeeMigfcj farm and delivery staffs, bookkeepers, collectors, •and, lastly bub rtot least, your bad debts, And after you have done all that you would not reduce the present price of (milk by a farthing per gallon." Mr, William tkntf, foamier and chief Bocretary of the Boyal L{fe«Baving So■cietyj .who tourexf New Zealand la November ldsfe,ift the Jnteredts of the Wociety, write* »» follows in hU report for i9iO:~-"The Attttralians 1 ami New Zealamkr* glory in being an important part of the British Empire, and are Jttsfc. 1/ pfdttd of the lands they live ia. The fsttccess they have met with is perhaps due to the fa«t that, generally speaking, they are prudent, patient, persevering, ami hopeful, doing well whatever they undertake. I have learnt much fromthem which will be of valiie to the work we have in hand s 1 hope, alao, that my presence, although in aorne ca«es of but short duration, Helped them to aequireflomething which will also be of value. However, the signs of enthusiasm, the great interest whicb was everywhere •evinced in, the worki and the wholehearted support of my efforts, though perhaps feeble in some respects, are »ft ittdication that the society and its work will increaw. From whatever point* of i view the tour may be considered, it if ! certain that it proved % complete sueS iceea." "Keggers"— those parties of men in ;- Prohibition distfktfs who contribate* to« ward* a supply of alcoholic refreshment -which they consume in public reserves*icspedaliy in' lnvermrgfll, are to have their path made a« atony &s possible. At (present, in the town mentioned, their custom fe not appreciated.' by the civio »uthorit-ies, but the itißpector of Police has pointedi'Out that at present there was no t cotffldl bylav or 'stetttte kw to prevent assemblies in parka aneLother puolio places for the purpose of drinkinajrom kegs, and the pohoe cotild do nothing tm* hm damage was done, the men got drnnky or committed some other offence. The police had prosecuted, to conviction those who resorted to railway reserves, but there mi a law dealing with such masters, and & bylaw would afford material awistftrtee in stamping out the pra'c< tice referred to. The council has decided to take the necessary steps to make a bylaw. A number of thirsty ones, who had to cross the railway line to reach their "keggery," were brought before the magistrate on charges of trespassing; on the railway line, and exemplary penalties ■were imposedi The annual distribution of awards of the Royal Human.* Society of Austral a.-<ia was made" in the Melbourne Town Hall last week. The Clark Medal— the principal award of the society— was gained this year by Richard Godfrey ya.rgeet«on, » Stawell (Victoria) miner, aged' thirty-teven years, who descended an abandoned flh»ft at Big Hill, Sta.well f on 10th March, to the rescue of a little girl who had fallen down. The child's jnoane could bo heard by those who had been called to the seen« by the fr-antic cries of the mother, a.nd Sargentson volunteered to descend on a rope. It ,was pointed out to him that the ta.sk ,tva<s fraught with grave dangei, and he was advised to wait until a. derftek could be rigged. "If I wait for that," replied Sargentson, "the child may be dead. Tie a, tope round me; I will *ake the risk. I will go down." Two police constable* lowered him until at 70ft from the surface his Candle went out owing to foul air, but he proceeded, though again advised to desiet. Thirty f*et further down the sides of the shaft had fallen in, and there was only room for him to squeeze through. At length he reached tlio. bottom, 120 ft from the surface, and then, with tho lifeless body of tho child in hi« arms, he was hauled tin again, bumping his head and shoulders against the sides of the shaft, Ho .suffered for dpye from th& effect of foul ah', and the muscular strain. Un* fortunately his courageous efforts were in vain, for the child had been killed by the fall. Always punctual, always reliable and accurate. Whether its forwarding r CuS' ionis worlT, baggage handling, furnitureremoving, it's done well and economic ally. The N.Z, Express Company, Ltd. —Atlvt. The corsets we like best and most fctrongly recommend are "Warner's Ktist-pi'oof," 8& they are right ahead in point of fashion deeign and guaranteed u> fit comfortably and not to rust, break, t>r teat I.—Advtr1 .— Advtr Messrt. fifrtnd snd Johnston will hold ■n sale, of hougehold furniture to* morrow, l«t August, at 11 o'clock sharp on the premise*, 19, Hanson'Stroet, comprising dudi««6 paif, Columbia gr.f phophone uncl 180 records) also fourteen pure-bred White Leghorns. On the same date, commencing at 2 o'clock eharp, in their rooms, they will hold a sale of A eolation dt choice roses, daphne, rhododendfOHs, diosnnw, baronias, and pot