The Ohinemuri Gazetti AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN. "I will a round unvarnish'd'tale deliver" —Othello, Act 1, Scene 3. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1892.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 8, 6 February 1892, Page 4

The Ohinemuri Gazetti AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN. "I will a round unvarnish'd'tale deliver" —Othello, Act 1, Scene 3. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1892.

Charles Hadbon Spurgeon, the high water anank of dissent^ is dead. Possessed of a rough, keen humour, and believing every letter of every Hoe of his Bible from the address to King James' t« . t/he last verse, of the Revelations, he was able with the aid of an impressive, of somewhai eccentric, deli-very to popularise a most itnpoetical creed. A highly prolificprencher,his sermons had for the aeuref. of their success the quality of being turned out hot and hot, coming from vis own heart to the heart of his hearers. His popularity never spoiled him and in private lite he was a mos; iinassntning and d«iigli!;i'ul noibpYnion. Mb has been blessed virith a cingenia: helpmate,who was his sub-editor ami literary friend as well as wife, and to \ hoin much of his success is due. She closed hi>! cv«« in the last, snene of all. Yoked in all exorcise of noblft end,

\»rl so to'thoseiliirk'gates across the\yild That, no. man knows. •■■"■■ '

Hb was no stoic, but made the best of both worlds, making no pretence to risceticism. He possessed that rare jewel—Sincerity, and while tolerant, thoroughly believed that Ms creed was, of all others, the true'one. >" Had he woq thrt yellow robe of" Buddha, practised the " woven paces and the waving hands" of .a Fijian medicine man; had he fallen into the mysterious ways of the Mahatmas or. boldly said " flun'c.lrnow" wi'h Huxtey ; or iSpencer, he would still Have been a man I ervaded and saturated wuh a love for his species, What are the forms and shibboleths after all ?: VVifh that ghastly but inevitable box standing on the trestles, shall we peck and bickei ;is to the transl ition of -Bapto ; fire a volley of lexicons over an open grave or pick holes in a dead man's syntax ? En'-ugh to know that he helped the widow and. orphan and that he is entitled to share in that glorious epitaph that Leigh Hunt wrote and lies under,: his own sweet self, '' Write me as one who loves his fellow men."

The policy of Protection ia New Zealand, if looked afc in the ligiir, ol the | fostering of Native, industries, has 1 proved a most conspicuous ' failure. During the era of c ui'iparative free trade, New Zealand- boasteil 20 jam factories, employing 2;(5 hands, now there only 19, employing 117. There i were 11 co.ui'ectiouHry uimimifactories with llu hands. — there nre now only oS employed in the trade despite the Urgely increased duties. In the last New Zealand "Gazette" to hand we tind that the very lew infant iutlastri«.-s that have been commenced since the uew tariff cane in vogue, ate hardly able to stand. In fact there are only three or fcur that stand at all. There is a toy "factory, au ink factory, ,t>nd a condensed iiiiik factory, the whole of them together only running four hands. To support, thuse four hands, extra duties am miring to hundreds of pounds, have been paid'on toys, ink and milk. -The-.NewZealand "Trade Beview " poiata out; a similar fact in

regard to.candle manufactories. The extra duty on caudles amounted to £2,384 per annum during the years 1 89 and '90. The extra hands employed inthe candle industries number up a whole five, for the luxury of . which the country pays £478 per head of those five per annum.. . The sting of the thing is in the fact that these five parsons only earn on aa average £10 per annum each. It is quite evident that while only a microscopical good is done to the factory hand, the mining ami agricultural sections of the community are shamefully robbed by the so-called protective system.