The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1910. The Holiday Season.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1144, 29 March 1910, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1910. The Holiday Season.

It is good to find that Eastertide, flowed by without any catastrophe and that the world's national holiday season was not marked by any great disaster. Of course, there have been mishaps, accidents, and fatalities, but these were not peculiar to the prolonged holiday season. Indeed, it is almost impossible oven in New Zealand to find a day without something tragical having happened to an individual. A glance at the record of the world's news since the last publication of the Stak reveals little that is ■exceptional. Etnia is still playing up, and five new craters are assisting in the terrible display of fireworks. Bolpasso is threatened with the overflow of lava, and the miraculous veil of St. Agatha, who was martyred in Sicily in the year 251, has been taken to the scene as a panacea for the flow. It will take something stronger than such a demonstration of faith to turn' aside the awful stream. Sir Robert Perks, leader of the English Methodists, who has been under the limelight frequently of late, has undertaken quite as big a task as Cardinal Nava and the lava stream in trying to induce tho Methodists of U.S.A. to stop the black v. White fight which is to take place on July "4 between Jack Johneon and Jim Jeffries for the world's fisticuff championship. Sir Robert phrased the coming contest as "a disgraceful and brutal orgy of wickedness." Quito so —and Johnson prides himself on being a Methodist —and white folks the world over are longing for Jeffries to knock out the negro, because it is not well that a coloured man should hold dominion over even the prize-ring. But we think the world generally, as well as the Methodists particularly, will soon come to the conclusion that prizefighting must be placed beyond the pale. There are tariff troubles still in U.S.A., which is finding that it will have to take a few bricks off the high w:all it has been erecting these years past against Britain and Canada. The latter country lias not taken the aggressive attitude of the Americans at all humbly, and it is requiring the whole of the famous tact of Taft to overcome the international difficulties which have arisen. France has also built its Protection wall a little bit higher against Britain, which still smiles and leaves the land wide open for the dumping operations of foreign rivals.