The Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1460, 19 October 1905, Page 2

The Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1905

' / y - here slmll the frisa ttm Pcopio'a Eight rminta tndunbribad by gain; : 1; be slonoai WMeiptedu*. ■ to Relition liberty, »ndli*w .

I TOMORROW the chief towns ofthi : : colony will celebrate fittingly one o { the,greatest events in the history o : the empire, Nelson's victory over th( ;; combined fleets of Prance and, Spair ■' off, Cfype Trafalgar. It was tbii : : crashing and memorable defeat thai necured to Britain supremacy or the eeaSj an honour she has ever sinc( undoubtedly held, and is deter- : miued to hold as long as war it .possible. By some it may. bi thought that in view, of'the entente at present , exist in? between t Francf and Englan I the celebration is oui of place and 'an insult to a.value 1 neighbour, \ Bot the celebration, bj Americans, of the Fourth of July, the. Day of Independence, is appreciated . as fully .by the, Briton as by '} the .American, for the great and ■" successfulfifiiht against,the tyranny ,• of . the mother country was a ,lesson i to ./Britain-■ she has never since for- •• arid which she is profiling by The independence of America waß r followed soon after by a change of the colonial policy ob.Britain, a ! change-that gaVe to her colonies tlie r fullest liberty. The result is, an object lesson to all other nations. In every part of the yast empire dei votion to the Crown is the national characteristic, and' the people are ■ progressive and enlightened, and the [ strongest and wealthiest , in the world, This is all duo toihe change

of policy, and the change of policy 1 was due to the fight fori indepenl dence,' No wonder the American celebration Is no affront to the British, Neither, for a similar reason, . should the celebration of Trafalgar Day be an affront I ~ to the French—at the present lime jl at least.: The supremacy on the saag it gained by the English a century ago !. ja of special benefit to France as long y as the entente lasts, which let us hope will be for 11 'ime "Hands ' off France" can be said with greater X effect bjj the British than by an v >• other people to an intending jj aggressor, and the weight of the ib -.effect'-iß'. in the navy, France is "• looking for a friend, a friend of >flubatance." Russia, her Bupposed s secret ally, is crippled, and Germany W and. menacing. - is looking to the naval n: 'championvfor the support that soonej I on later she will perhaps need; and judging from passing events she is

ooking not in vain 1 , The dipping j of ."British ensigns inhonour of the, tj . ?renchj .and the. mingling of Jnion; Jacks .and tvi-colours^, op frafalgarDav in England, will strike \ chord deep anilresponsive ,in French and British hearts. :