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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12817, 17 March 1905, Page 6

riling in the London Daily Chronicle on the crisis in Russia. Mr. Arnold White says:—Russia is sterile in great men. Sha lias produced 110 admiral; lier best general is proficient in retreats; her chief officials are mere names. Tolstoi and Father John of Cronstadt for what they have done, and Ml I'obiedonostsefH for what he lias undone, are almost the only three Russians who have gained a reputation outside their own country. Nicholas 11. is uxorious and timid. Under petticoat influence he has drifted where he should have struck. Following Bacon's advice "not to be without some great person of military valour for repressing, of seditions in their beginnings," he has abdicated to his uncle Vladimir the responsibilities of Empire. There is no cruelty like the cruelty of weak men, and one cannot regret the approaching end of a dynasty associated with such a record of ruin and misery as that of the Romanoffs. Nor can we English safely assume that we also will not suffer with the Russians. If the revolution succeeds, I cannot understand what can save the credit of Russia, and if financial collapse takes place, many thousands of English homes will lie swept away in the crash of Russian credit. An Oamaru auctioneering firm has sold 50.000 sheep this year for Canterbury. Of these 18, GOO were sold to one Ashburton purchaser. ' v TUCKER'S CUSTARD, UNSURPASSED*