WEALTH AND BEAUTY OF ZEALANDIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10666, 10 June 1902, Page 2

WEALTH AND BEAUTY OF ZEALANDIA.

Und«b the above' heading the Salvation Army's annual social organ, "The Victory," contains a laudatory article on our colony. It Bays: — "Residents of world cities ari'.ever familiar with the discussion of such topics as the housing of the poor, public parks, and rural settlement. In the comfortable housing and settlement of the slum population is the reformer's hope of moral salvation. Ihftew island are found tfip verjr conditions of which these did World committees dream, but more perfectly expressed than their highest aspirations.' There are no slums worth the name^no tenement houses. Most of the villas'-'stqnd within their own allotments. Hundreds of working men own their own dwellings. There is, very little poverty that is not the result of sheer thriftlessness. Work, though not over-plentiful, can always be obtained by diligence and an exercise of patience. The natural wealth of New Zealand is proverbial. From the land, in minerals, inMrneep, cattle, oi the tilling of the soil is found an abundance. If thdre is Wont ,i£ is not occasioned by any "lack of products, rather by the failure of the distribution. The natural beauty is delightful! "Beautiful isles of the sea" fairly summarises Maorilandi Hot mineral springs, huge spduUng geysers sending their volume of boiling spray eighty feet into the air; terrades of steps formed by the lava 'from 1 volcanic eruptions ; snow-penkcii 'mountains, the king of which is Mount Cook, 13,200 feet high; coastal scenery 'unsurpassed anywhere — a climate in the centre of the-. frigid cone, warmed by tropical influences in the north, and fanned by Antarctic influences in the south. A population of 700,000, possessing a country as large as the British Isles. If good laws, favourable environment and circumstances, with general prosperity, will make the people moral and virtuous, New Zealand' otight to, be perfection as far as it isjpoßsible to human nature." Tjiere is, of course, the dark side of the picture, and "The Victory" says it is a sad reflection that with all its advantages, Immorality and crime are prevalent, and "the Salvation Army supports, eleven social institutions for ex-prisoners, fallen women, arid, saddest of all, Maternity Homes for ruined girls, accommodating 300 persons."

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be jfo'und on our first page. At » meeting of < the Waipawa County Council, it was stated that the books of the Land and Survey Office at Napier were in a chaotic state, and information regarding thirds could not be obtained. , ' Mayor Park, in' Advocating the 'creation of a, Greater Dunedin, stated that there- were* eight mayors, 82 councillors, and eight town clerks attending to the affairs of the city and suburbs, in which there; were 51,000 people, of whom only 8420 -were ratepayers. ' - • . Apropos of the purchase of American locomotives by the New Zealand Govornment the following paragraph from a Bloemfontein paper is of interest: — •'Forty new locomotives ' have been ordered for Orange River Colony. The head of the locomotive works states that experience has shown thai the American engines brought here cannot be compared with' English ones." Extract from '"ship's order on a trooper bound ,to - South Africa: — "Complaints, having been made to the captain by some passengers that officers appear on the promenade deck at 8 a.m. in pyjamas, the : officer commanding troops hoped that this practice wifl cease, and that officers wilt appear without pyjamas." < •= ■ At the Police Court '"this morning, Robert Thomas Munro and Percy J. Sherwood, charged with embezzlement, elected 'to be tried summarily and pleaded guilty. They were remanded till June 18, to enable the Probation Officer to report, bail being allowed. Mr Treadwell appeared for the accused. There were nine charges against Sherwood and seven against Munro, the sums embezzled ranging from 4s 2d to £4 15s 3d. It is Napoleon's will which, among those of great men,, affords the nearest parallel to that of Mr Rhodes in the fortune it bequeaths.' From his lonely home at St. Helena he bequeathed to his relatives and friends the vast sum of £8,,000,000 sterling.- He had been rich, in gold as in power, beyond the dreams of avarice; and there must have passed through his hands a private Fortune such as mortal matt has rarely ■dreamed of. His exactions from conquered States have 'been set down at nearly XJ>75,000,000X J>75,000,000 of English money. A Maori who was 'charged with having in his possession prohibited birds — viz., tuis — told the ' Bench at Rotorua that he was not aware that it" was any harm to shoot the, tu>\- as this bird' had been used by; his ancestors as food from time immemorial. t He asked that 'notices in the Maori language bo circulated in the settlements, so that Maoris ■night not err in ignorance. The S.M. sa»d that he would make representations to the authorities to have tills ■lone. A fine of 20s and costs was inflicted. ' A resident of Raratonga, Cook Islands, in a letter to a. Dunedin gentleman, says: — "A few years ago the export of coffee was about 2SO tons per year, but none is shipped now. The supply of cocoanuts and oranges is also small this year. "There is much dissatisfaction at the, present 'political condition. Since the islands are now incorporated with 'New Zealand the people think that they should be represented at Wellington, but not by a native only. They also desire, to see ordinary Courts of Justice established in the island." . f Captain Taylor, one of the British officers who have recently been purchasing remounts for South Africa, said, in the course of an address at Auckland, that he was very glad to have been able to send out so many good horses us he had the other day. There would be a future order, and he considered that this was a question to which the people of New Zealand should turn their serious attention, as England had to look outside for her remounts, and New Zealand was a 'country eminently suited for horse-breeding. ■ The London Chronicle says: — Antismokers who doubt recent statements as to the good health enjoyed by employees' of the tobacco factory. In being shown the various processes of the preparation of the weed the visitor is struck by the number of workers of 60 and 70 years of age whose service has been life-long. Their hale and hearty appearance, after decades of work in the handling of the alleged "poisonous herb" gives the lie to the libel, while the cigarette girls and women packers and "strippers" are. the neatest and brightest of female workers. The longevity, of their employees constitutes indeed an assqt of 'the .manufacturers. There are veterans -in the service of Bristol houses whose knowledge and experience in blending the leaf are simply invaluable; their death or retirement means a heavy trade loss, to the firm.

Had a Good Time.— A. J. Snell wanted to attend a party, but was afraid to do so on account of pains in his stomach, which he feared would grow worse. He says, "I was telling my troubles to a lady., friend, who said: 'Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in condition for the party.' I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party." Mr Snell is a resident of Summer Hill, N.Y., U.S.A. This remedy is for sale by United Farmers' Co.-op. Association.

We are informed that Mr A. W. Mountfort intends resigning the secretaryship of the Wanganui Rugby Union shortly. Miss Blair has been appointed assistant at St. John's School, and Miv L. Clinton has been transferred to the Infants' Uchooh On dp first jiage to-day will be Found the Balance. Sheet bf the Waitotara County .Fund, for the year ending 3lst March, 1902. To attract JatrdnS and induce them to stay late a restaurant keeper ,in Wassau keep* a iftotdr bar; in i^tucn his customers are driven home; free of charge, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.. -■ •• o». .«..>.> • As a consequence of the Liverpool Bank frauds, it is said that cashiers and clerks in some firms are being subjected to a close' inspection, which extends even to,, the food they partake of at lunch time^ -' The friends- who kindly, promised .to take collecting.,, boxes on Behalf, df -Dr Guinness' 3 missionary work ire 'informed that they can be supplied by balling at the' Primitive Methodist Parsonage, Dublin Street. £ '' * Two' men at Wesfeart "- recently placed several dynamitS plugs nfiAr the stove to warm. They went outside ana a few minutes Afterwards the .dynamite exploded, blowing the roof of the hut orf.s • t . ; p| „- £ The attendances at the Education Board's town schools yesterday were — District ' High School,, 85, out of a roll number of 715 Infants' School, 208" out of 255; St. John's "Infant School, 138 out of 160; Girls' School, 275 out of 313; Boys; School, $22 out of 350.. One of tke reaSdnS; prbatia. why Cecil Rhodes, never in Sis lifetime achieved the rank amSng British Stateimeri to which he was entitled was his contempt for oratory, a defect fatal in a generation which prefers eloquence, to efficiency and loves to. have the, Hard, ana disagreeable. facts of life wrapped up in. rhetorical cottonwool,, — 'Telegraph. A poll was taken by the Mstaongaonga Road Board on Saturday last on a proposal to - raise £1000 by way of loan to complete street-forming and metalling' in Scdgebrook and East own. Thirty-one ratepayers voted in favour of the proposal and no votes were recorded .against it. The proposal was therefore carried. . ■■ The spectacle witnessed for some days of the Government veterinary staff in Wellington exhibiting signs of a general disablement (writes a Wellington correspondent) has led to the discovery that the whole staff was recently inoculated against plague, and this was the effect of the anti-toxin. In the cake of Mr Gilruth, the chief veterinarian, the effects were so bad that he was confined to his house. The annual theoretical musical knowledge examinations in connection with Trinity College, London, were held simultaneously throughout the British Empire On Saturday last, 7th June. Twenty-eight candidates presented themselves at the Boys' High School for the Wanganui local centre. Mrs Notman assisted Miss Evelyn Price (local secretary) in formally supervising in the morning, and Mrs T. BoswalJ Williams acted in a similar capacity in the afternoon. The results will be published on - their -return from England, in about three months' time. Miss Price has received the syllabus of the higher practical examinations, and anyone desirous of procuring a copy may do so by calling at the music studio, Campbell Street There is projected at Washington a specimen of--"geographio sculpture," as it is called, which will certainly lick creation. It is to be a model of the United States on the scale of about 2} inches to every linear mile of territory. It will include a representation of every highway, railway track, and bridge in the country, as well as forests, watercourses, swamps, and ' mountains. .It will be so mode that at any time pieces of a 1 standard size may be taken out and changed to conform to new conditions. Sectional duplicates will be struck off in large numbers 'at a low cost for use in chools, libraries, and railway offices. It is estimated that it will be possible to place- a model of this size in a low bnt , well-lighted building about 800 ft long and half ac wide. "Does the race of men love a lord?" is a question propounded by Mark Twain in the North American Review, especially__with reference to his own countrymen. Prince Hennfr visit supplies the necessary peg.-'^^The * answer < is, of course, in the affinnative^. Says the genial humourist :-r"There are hundreds of people who would frankly say to you that they would not be proud to be photographed, in a group, with the Prince, if invited; and some of these unthinking people would believe it when they said it; yet ' in no instance would it be true. We have a large population, but we have not a large enough one, by several millions, to furnish that .man." All the .human, race loves a lord, and sometimes animals, "born to better things and higher ideals," descend. to. man's level in thir matter. "I have seen a cat," says Mark, "that was so vain of being the personal friend of an elephant that I was ashamed of her." The prisoners working at the fortifications at Sticking Point, below the Sumner-Lyttelton Road, evidently did not appreciate having to work on Tuesday when everyone else was celebrating the- birth of Royalty and proclamation of peace. Several gangs, in charge of numerous armed warders, were hauling stone from a face" to a tip about a hundred yards distant where the stone was v shot over the bank. This being done, the men were supposed to hold on to the rope and thus prevent the strong hand barrow from following. One gang on Tuesday afternoon had just shot the half-ton or so of rock, when a prisoner rallied his .mates by calling out. "Let her go, boys," and sure enough tho heavy cart did "go," crashing down the precipice fully 200 feet, and smashing an old and disused sentry box at the foot, amid -roars of laughter from the prisoners. The gang which had let the barrow drop had the laugh somewhat discounted, as the members were marched by two warders to where the barrow lay and made to haul it back again at "double quick" time and then continue their work.An elopment which took place in March in the United States -provides some of the New York papers just to hand with some of their liveliest headlines. The bride was Mrs Noye,' a wealthy lady of seventy, described at having moved "in exclusive Boston society circles," and the bridegroom Mr George E. Cook, an artist, formerly of 'Park Lane, who is 35, and' was "pr* sented at Court by Mr Bayard in 1896." Mrs Cook's relatives were much against -the match, and a nephew named Everett was deputed to be present at the church to stop the marriage. In this he was successful, having produced a family Bible to show that the lady was born ten years before the date shown in the wedding certificate. - That-night, Mr Cook wont to the door of his intended bride, rapped, and whispered: "Now if the time. Your son is coming from Michigan. Will you elope with me to New York?" Here the happy bridegroom tells his own tale : "She said she would. We had one little handbag. 7. ! put a suit of pyjamas and a toothbrush in it, and she put some night clothing in it, too. That's all the baggage we had. She was still wearing mourning for Mr Noye. I came away .without my overcoat. We brought all the valuable papers we could find,' though, and stuffod our pockets with jewellery. I had about 100 dollars, and I took a section for Mrs Noye and one fpr myself on the train. We telegraphed to John C. Wait, my lawyer*. He met us,;and had breakfast with us. Then he* took us to Brooklyn to be married." There is likely to be trouble ahead for the new-ly-wedded pair, for there is talk of proceedings on the part of .the relatives to obtain the annulment of the marriage. In the meantime, however, they are not worrying. "Mr Cook," the American chronicler prettily says, "is an interesting and continuous conversationalist, and Mrs Cook's attitude is that of spellbound admiration."

A Good Cough Medicine. (From the Gazette, Toowooinba, Australia.)— J find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is an excellent medicine. I have been suffering from a severe cough for the last tiro mouths, ond it has efiocted » cure. I have great pleasure in recommending it. — W . C. Wookner. ' This is the opinion of one of our oldest and most respected residents, and has been voluntarily given in good faith that others may try the remedy and be benefited, as was Mr Wockner. This remedy is sold by United Farmers' Co.op. Association. Long live the King ! But who can tell The certainty of life, The man who feels to-day so well, May die if sickness rife. Coughs and colds are prevalent ills - Which we must all endure. Though we can save the doctors' bills With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Ingo. — Thousands of sufferers from that most painful malady "Raging Toothache," have not only received immediate relief, but have been permanently cured by using the latest scientific remedy "Ingo," for destroying the nerve in decayed teeth. Ingo arrests decay, forming a stopping and save* extraction. Important to purchasers. Insist on trying "Ingo." There is no other remedy "just as g00d.." Price, 1/All storekeepers.