Is a White Australia Possible?

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10504, 27 November 1901, Page 2

Is a White Australia Possible?

[ Evidently Mr E. W. Cole, of the Book Arcade, Melbourne, does not think so. He has recently issued a very interesting pamphlet on the subject, in the course of which he says that Australasia is capable of sustaining a population of 400 millions. This, under present conditions, of productive cecupation, seems to be a tremondouß exaggeration. It might be a realisable estimate if science should ever be able to place rainfall under the absolute control of human intelligence, and reveal some cheap and •wholesome method of fertilising desert soil. Mr Cole's idea is that. the Eastern nations, hardpressed for room in their own territories, will put in an irresistible claim to share in the possession of Australia. Colour prohibition, he is of opinion, will lead to war. He reviews the position of 'the Japanese, Javanese, Chinese, and Hindoos, and draws a formidable picture of their ability to break, down any Australian wall of exclusion when they make up their minds to do so. The few English millions will be overwhelmed "by the incoming flood. Mr Cole's 'views are condensed in this passage: — "Can we keep the coloured people out of Australasia, even if it were just to do so? Let us look at the situation. We have a territory 28 times . tho size of England, Ireland, and Scotland, while in a hundred years we have only increased to a population of four millions. To the north of us and within a few days' steaming, lie Java, Japan, China Proper, and India, containing- a coloured population of 800 millions — one-half of the entire human' race. These four countries united are only about the size of Australasia . Whilo wo have increased only to four millions .in 100 years they have increased by 200 millions, and are still fast increasing. This . expansion of population wijl eventually and largely j flow towards Australia, and we cannot keep it back. The Javanese will come, the Japanese will - come, the Chinese will come, and the Hindoo will come, as soon as they are awakened and educated to act, and that awakening and education nro fast coming about."

On our first page will be found interesting reading matter under tn« following headings: — "Cricket," "Condensed Cables and Telegrams," "A Shooting Affray," "The Gold Industry," "Post and Telegraph Officers' Conference," "Sehol Examinations," "Sporting," and "Commercial."

Saturday next (Stt Andrew's Day) will be observed as a bank holiday.

Ragwort is said to be growing largely on roads round about Hi.wera.

There were nine deaths from cancer in the colony last month.

The Wairoa County Council is sending to England for motor wagons for road-making purposes.

Some 3000 acres in the Poverty Bay district are being sown down in linseed.

Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Strong easterly winds; glass fall; tides highj sea moderate.

The estimated cost of the new Central railway station at Sydney including resumptions (.£186,000) is

Mr G. J. Browne, Postmaster at Onehunga, has resigned, after 40 years' service, arid retires on a pension. Tho Pukerau Hotel destroyed by fire tho other day, was the only licensed house in the Clutha electorate.

The rumored retirement of Mr Allen, S.M., from the Bench, has been authenticated. His retirement will take place in March next. ,The Egmont Post says the railway authorities have decided to lay a line to the mountain for stone, but owing to the want of funds it will be some time before the work can be started.

It is reported that twa Frcneh aeronauts have discovered a method of utilising wireless telegraphy for coinmunisating with captive military balloons.

Giving evidence before tlie Factories Act Commission in Sydney last week, one man who worked in a restaurant 100 hours .1 week for 30s, said that he had rearud a family during that time, and hardly knew his own children.

Tlie American Plough > Company is the most recently formed giant combination. Twenty-three of the leading plough makers of the world are in this trust, which has behind it a capital of 100,000,000d01.

During last week 100 Border Leicester stud rams and 260 Shropshire rams and ewes have arrived at Wellington for North Island breeders.. The sheep were bred and despatched from Canterbury.

Mr Richardson, Government Surveyor, is about to survey a new^township about five miles from Levin, on the sea beach. When it is laid out sections will be offered on 21 years' lease.

The Taranaki Herald Bays that Mr J. O'Driscoll has received notice that an appeal against His Honor Justice Conolly's decision in the Hotel Commonwealth case has been lodged, and will be heard next March.

Owing to the backward state of pasture in the Milton district (Otago), very little business is doing in the sheep market at present, and stocks can only be quitted at a fall of from 3s to 4s compared with prices ruling a couple of months ago.

In some of the schools in Sweden bathing is one of the compulsory lessons of the pupils. Three times a week they must dispott themselves in swimming baths, and while the youngsters are enjoying this curriculum' their clothes are purified in steam ovens. The Parliamentary vote of .£3OOO for public libraries will be distributed on the Bth of ""February. Those libraries who. wish to participate in tho vote must lodge claims with the Secretary for Education by the 31st of January next.

' In consultation with Mr Pirani'yesterday, tho Chairman of the Education Board expressed the opinion that under the special circumstances the Board would probably relax the rule of refusing to allow teachers who had not been twelve months in their positions to apply for the -vacancies advertised. M. Anchutz, of Monaco, is building in France, a submarine boat in which to reach, the ' North Pole. It will be larger than any existing submarine boat, and so powerfully constructed as to burst its way through fairly thick ice to the surface in case it fails to find crevasses.

A wife-beater was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour, at the Supreme Court at Auckland on Saturday. According to the depositions the assault was a very brutal one. Prisoner had a few words with hiß wife one evening, struck her violently, threw her out of the house, and then struck her again several times, when she was being picked up by a neighbour.

A writ has been issued and served, in connection with a partnership in tho Pahiatua Herald newspaper. Some months ago Mr Benporath, who hails from Taranald, paid 3>750 for a quarter share in the paper. Baillie and Co. arc the defendants. Mr Skerrett, of Wellington, and Mr Toswill, of Pahiatua, are for the plaintiff. The case will be heard at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Wanganui.

Sir Wilfred Lawson tells the following story: — ''A woman was once pursuing hor fugitive cow down a lane when she called out to someone in front, "Man, turn my cow." The man took no notice, and allowed the cow to pass. When she came up, she said : \Man, why did you not stop my cow?' Ho replied: 'Woman, I am not a man, I am a magistrate.' " Cape papers to hand by a recent mail state that between £2,000,000 and .£3,000,000 sterling are being spent by the Imperial Government on new docks at Simon's Town. The work is in the hands of the contracting firm of Sir John Jackson, and will take about eight or ten years to complete. Preliminary operations have now been commenced, but the solid part of the business cannot be touched for about sijt weeks. At .present some ''2so white men and natives are engaged in "clearing the ground" for a substantial start, and when the work is -in full swing several thousand hands will be engaged.

Tho Dancvirke Volunteers are building a new drill ball, at a cost of about .£IOOO, on very insufficient foundations, as appears from the following 'extract from the local Press: — ''In answer to Mr C. Hall's application on behalf, of the drill hall committee, for an advance on tho work, that gentleman has received* the following communication from the Defence Minister: 'I never sanctioned the site, and gave instructions to stop negotiations; and to ask me now to approve the trustees' actions and pay the subsidy is asking me to foot a bill of which I never approved and on which I was never consulted. — R. J. Seddon."'

One of the sailors of tho Mediterranean Squadron added to the gaiety of his comrades on the ships in Malta harbour a. few weeks ago by his novel method of spending his money. His ship was to sail next day, and he dctormined to get rid of all his pocket money before ho went aboard. He accordiugly 'hired about forty rowing boats, formed thorn into a procession, and, seated luxuriously in the last boat, went round and round his ship. Ilia comrades on board kept up a lire of cheers and jocular cries. Having made a tour of tho ship several times, the jack tar paid all his money away for the hire of the boats, and then went aboard thoroughly satisfied. To the list of remarkable clocks in tho world that just completed by a Bohemian in Chicago, who has beeu at work on it for nineteen years, will have to be added. It is more thau 18ft high, and is 15ft square at the base. A miniature earth circles around tho dial and turns on its axis every twenty-four hours, while the sun, moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and other planets arc represented in their proper ■ relative places. * When tho clock strikes a door opens and a procession of all the Presidents of the United States issues, ' followed by figures which symbolise . the growth of tho Republic. The investor has kept his work a secret all these years, and even now refuses to sell it or allow it to be exhibited. ~ While in the Suez Canal, on her passage to Australia the P. and O. steamer •Oceana experienced an extraordinary sand and hail storm. The wind blew with the strength of a hurricane, ing douse clouds of sand, which completely obscured the surroundings, and rendered the navigation of the Canal oxtremely difficult. Subsequently hailstones of immense size beat down upon the vessel with a rattle like- that of musketry, and her decks were soon covered. Several of the larger stones were measured, and were found to be about 2in in circumference. The storm only lasted a few minutes, and passed away .as suddenly as it arose,, a beautiful starlit sky succeeding. An experience of quite a different and more un1 pleasant nature was afterwards .met with by those on board whilst the ship was passing through the Red Sea.' The temperature was oppressively high, and all were glad when this streach of the trip was completed. Heavy gales were subsequently encountered before reaching Australia. No Losa of Time. — I' have sold Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Romordyfor. years, and would rather be out of nsoffee and Bugar than it. I sold ( five bottles of it yesterday to threshers that could go'no farther, and they are svt work again this H. It. Phelps, Plymouth, Olda., IT.S.A. As 'will be seen by the above, the threshers were able to keep on with their work without losing a single day's time. You should lkeep a botle of this remedy in your home. — For sale by United Farmers" Co-operative Association". '

The Hon. the Native Minister ia expected in Wangaaui to-morrow. He will proceed up-river to Jerusalem, where a meeting of the Maori Council -will lie held.

A veteran soldier, who was with Sir Charles Napier's fleet in the Crimea, and the Maori war, was granted an oldage pension for the full amount at Tapanni on Tuesday.

It transpired during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court at Masterton recently that a Mangamahoe settler had earned 9s 3d per day on the co-operative works.

Mr Cruickshank, S.M., is reported to have stated in the Tapanui Court the other day that he recently granted an old-age pension to a man who at one time was earning and spending JBIOO a week on the goldfields.

"Officer commanding" is a misnomer in New Zealand volunteering — "Officer considering" would bo nearer the mark, as each district battalion and company leader's first thought is not what order should be given, but what command is likely to be obeyed. — Wairoa Bell.

' Christchurch has a fish market, but a^fish hawker, giving evidence in Court tho other day, said he was unable to buy fish at the market, which is held in a hotel yard, for he had conscientious scruples about going to such a place, having been a total abstainer for over nineteen years.