Sayings of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 1, 6 January 1909, Page 3

Sayings of the Week

Tli*'* ? L a g-meral tendency iu the growth of <ll communißee—until eouii t-TM-ct* J V>‘ particular attention to the speech it* — towards deterioration or diaL-ctuM i 1 may put in that way. I »r iufit’ns. there is a general Un den cy ** tvar>U .. * transformation of the vowel A- m such as the pronunciation of 'i” for ”a ' as ”ime” for aim, "a” for :; e” as “bare” for bean, **oi” for ‘"i” as ‘“X >ime’’ Lr time. ‘>Mr” for “n” as * ld’ fa,t told.—Jfr. Edward Reci'Cg* ‘Adviaiop University. • • • • The Nort-i would never be properly deS'elopeL until railway- was taken a great tieal north of Kaiwaka. He was a great believer ij» -.he |»ossibilities of the North. Ait hruigh a great deal of the land had l<een described as poor he was fully persuaded teiat wluit was wanted was knowledge of how to handle the land, and in years to come he believed this country would sup|MTt more settlers to the square mile rhausimy other portion of New Zea Jand r-ftbn. (I. FoivMs. . * < • . - Tlie Tf.rminion's woe. on t ra«e. tops that v every ot,. i ntry ”>£_ course, the best of tl ■ . • w^,ls nave a niarkvt all tj Vneixs-lvos, bn* the see”fl“-VTat :-b-is, fortunate.;,- for I breylers, very smai, The Taikland Islanfs. too. produce a kind of Merino wool whi h is jieculiarly adapted to the ho^ !, ry trade. But, taking it all through, Nefr Zealand holds the pal m over any of the wool-pTO&iicing countries.— -Hr.Henry iVaknsonr. Marlborough. Tey ln>pe<l for more fair play from the present Government than they had from previous ones. The desire of* the party for majority rule was stronger than ever since they realised that there was a majority of votes for. No-license in 60 electorates’ and yet there would be, if ail tire -eases trow- pending were decided in their favour, only 12 No-license, districts in the Dominion. They regarded this as mil ragesous.— lter. F. M . /sift. • ♦ * * * Let us have an international arrangement for the transmission ot telegrams between a ? iy two points in Europe at a penny a word. Of course, international •Bumbledom will not view the suggestion with pleasure, and the notion of effacing telegraphic frontiers will cause immense perturbation. But though we do not like to shock people, sometimes it is just as well to ignore the susceptibilities of a few When the daily interests of the mass of humanity are involved.— Wr.'-f. Henniker Heaton. • « « • It is not much further from London to India by land than it is from one point in Australia by telegraph to another—a little over three thousand miles. Now, if the Government of the Island Continent can enable its people to send a telegram tlie enormous distance of 3(>00 miles through tire wastes and wildernesses for a penny a word, or twelve words for a • shilling, wijat is there to prevent us sending a telegram from London to India by land at the same rate? —Mr. J. Henniker Heaton. Mt'. s ♦ * * • I saw a prevalent and dreadful depresaijn throughout South Afria. There is a complete want of confidence in any im- . portant improvement being effected. There is a continual racial strife between Bt tish and Boers—with some beautiful exceptions. The leading men perltap.-, on boll aides regard the last settlement as a t na! settlement. 'General Botha and Mr Smuts are held in respect and esteen, but tlie old bitterness has not yet die< down among tire Boers in the country districts, and there is a great deal of iieai Uuirning.—6'enerof Hooth. • • * • Mrn's education ought to b« in accordI ance with wliat he. was made for. Every mau was innrte for s supernatural end. If Ui'y did sot educate ft boy or girl to ’ Xhst -nd it uas a great mistake. That f ' '•*/ J2*e State wb ration in New V- . do. The system was tWr.-Till a«m|dy. loftdA-g on to tr m ule', » -wsn.rr . ' el r. ading to take

It often happens that barm is suffered by a plaint iff, not solely through the negligence of the defendant, but also trough that of the plaintiff himself. It f»? had lined due care for his own safety j? would have come to no harm, notwithstanding the negligent of the defendant. In such a ease the plaintiff is said to be guilty of contributory negligence, and in general debarred from any action. It is the duty of every man to look after himself, and for injuries which he could hasp avoided by the use of care he will seek redress from the law in vain.— Dr. McArthur, 8.M., Wellirtgtoii All Imperial defence in all parts of the Fmpire rested upon the foundation of the British Navy. It not only represents the material strength in defence and offence, but it also forms the basis on which our possible alliances rest—either peace alii or alliances for—or during—war.—• iS'tr Charts Dilke. Between the Zaml>«?si and (aj>etown, c»it of 10,000,000 of |>eoj>le 9.300,000 are natives. A gentleman told me that when he to Natal there was not a ZttKi within its liorders. Now there are at least a millian. But in addition, 100,000 Indians have l»een imported to South Africa. The coolie is away the. white man’s trade. He opens shops and stores. He works for long hours and undersells. He is driving our own traders out of the towns.— (Jeneral Booth. Every foreign Power krtows that rf we have established—as we have—and if we mean to maintain—as we do—the indisputable supremacy on the seas, it is not for the-; purpose of aggression or adventure, but it is that we may fulfil the elementary duty which we owe to the Empire; to .upheld, beyond the reach— J'es, and beyond the risk—of successful attack from outside our commerce, our industry, our homes.— Vr. .4s</w?/A. There is one conviction which th? people of these islands hold with unshaken unanimity. It is that in our unquestioned and unquestionable command of the seas is to be found the best safeguard of our interests as a nation and of the peaceful intercourse of mankind.— Mr. Asquith. I say what I am sure yon will hear with pleasure, and what the Board of Admiralty know 1 am thoroughly justified in saying—never in the whole history uf the country has the Navy been stronger than at the present moment. The charge for maintaining the supre macy .of our Navy is necessarily a heavy one. But we have supremacy t<>-<lav, and mean to preserve it.— Mr. B. lfcK^uua t First I,ord of the Admiralty. The consolidated statutes went to over 400 pages, and of these 2500 copies in book form were printed. Besides from 50 to 500 copies of all the individual statutes the office had also print'd the main electoral rolls, 76 in all. with a total of over 6000 pages. He. was h'jnself surprised at the short time in which this work had l>een done. The ordinary .vork, which had been very heavy, had been going on all the time. — Mr. VocAoy, Government Printer. • 4 • • The infectious diseases ward of the Whangarei Hospital will, when eroded, be the nx»st up-to-date of its kind south of the line. All the l.vtest improyciirnts in this ctass of building have l>een introduced, and the disposition of the structure is according to the latest authorities on hospital architecture.— Dr. District Health Officer. With the result of Arbitration vourts he was deeply disappointed. In New Zealand practice there was enough to show that while they might largely t>» away with strife, they might bring about ♦ hat which wUs worse —a feeling of dis content permeating the various strata of the country. There was a worse fwling, in his opinion, between employer and employed in the colonies than he ever hope! to s*e in Great Britain —. of Broat Shipbuilders.

Shaking as a brother on India If of the family, we shall always feel proud that one of us, learning all his rowing in New Zealand under great diaadrantages, went to the very heart of the rowing world and wrested the greatest honour which the rowing world has to bestow. lie brought it to our shores, carried it modestly. and, losing it, lost it as a spurUinan should.— Mt J. S. Webb, Tokomaru, brother of the ex-champion sculler. He did not consider the winning of a seat the principal thing in politics, but lather to proclaim and fight for principles that were right- and necessary, and for the benefit of all. That was the chief duty of the politician. He believed his own principles to Ik* right, and although many electors had not thought so at the last election, he thought and believe<l that many would think with him three years hence.— Mj J. C. Cooper, Pahiatuck Down at Smithfield and other wholesale markets, the mutton might be called "New Zealand” and the label ’ Prime Canterbury” might be seen, but by the time it is disposed of it often iiecomos the ’’best English.” and even if it i> still called ’ Prime Canterbury,” the public believe it to be English. This lias come to be regarded as custom. — Mr T. Bush, Wellington. The Catholics of New Zealand had an uphill fight in instituting a system of education that was in conformity with the dictates of their conscience. During the great struggle they had had the con solation and assistance of his Grace Archbishop Redwood, who had throughout played a noble part in erecting that* structure of Catholic education which obtained at the presefit day. and which bad l>een productive of such splendid results. —Mr J. J. Dei>ine, Wellington. Mr Fitzgerald had done splendidly to poll as he did against a public man of the standing of his opponent. Mr Fitzgerald’s claims as a young New Zealander also appealed to him strongly, and he was glad that he had attached himself to the party t-hat had done more than any other for this country. He must regard the contest as merely a preliminary canter, and it should not bcj long l»efore he . was seated within the walls of Parliament. Mr Fitzgerald wa> the sort of man that was wanted there. iiou. J. .4. In the year 1886, on the railway wharf at Auckland, four men mot and formed themselves into a society to protect the interests of the railway men. That be ginning had grown until th? institution now had 6300 members, with an accumulated fund of £4OOO. to say nothing of the £l5OO recently paid away to secure the time of those men who had broken service during the 1890 strike. They werz all proud of the work which had been accomplished l»v the organisation — Mr J. Mack, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The pay nowadays was a long way ahead of the wages paid in the earlier days. Some time back it was 6/ or 6/6 a day for surfacemen, and now it was 8/. And if a man married it was 8/3f. Why, there has been quit*? a matrimonial epidemic since this came into force.— Mr T. Kotruquc, General Manager N.Z. Railways. It was the hope of all railway men that the manager of (he late Manawatu C unpany would have a happy old ag-, and that he would got a tablet out for that grand terminus to which they were all going. —Mr E. IV. Daicson, 'traffic Inspector N.Z. Railways.

The ('atliolic Isslv had always realised that tsin. atiuu. to Is* solid, must «M>mbine the religious and the sevulai An education should develop not only the mental. but sl«o the spiritual &ide of the tu-holat Any syst -m which paid atten tion only to the mental element was defective Tliey had good reason to congratulate themselves on the present position of t'athtdic education in this city. Today they could say that the Catholic < hiii.-h was tn a position to take the infant. pass him through a system of elementary education, giv? him a secondary education, and launch him right into the university, wlierr. at the present time, Catholic students wre playing n» mean part.— 1>(/i6f-sAop Ecdwctod. The |ss.»plu of New Zealand must be careful to steer betwis-n extreme De mocracy to-day was m its trial In the past the demoi-rats were the slaves and the workers; but today they were phued in charge of th • management of the com monweal. He thought tbit if the young men who were listening to him were t. ue to the traditions of the Church they would do tliir utmost to ’eave their im print on the public life of the Dominion. —.4 tchbishop Rcduxfod. ♦ * • • How grat *ful he was to the Marisfc Brothers, who, by i-.heir sacrifices, had dune so much to place Catholic education in tin- proud j»o.Mtion whb h it occupied to day.— 4 rchJ>%slo>p l*’ dux>od. At present the i ail way staff was one which New Ze.a]and might be proud of; they wer? a temperate, sober, and good set of men. There were occasions when a little trouble came along, for men would forget themselves and the signals, and thereby endanger the safety of the public. His private opinion of the rail way men of New Zealand was that their one thought was for the safety of the public. Evry page of their rules and regulations said that the first consideration must b? the safety of the travelling public. it was not necessary to impress that on the members of th-* New Zealand railway staff. i>c ; ausp it was <»red in them.— Mr T. Bonayne, General Managi N.Z. railways Americans, if anything, lacked consistency. Alexander’-, play was very brilliant. but at times uncertain. Beals Wright was a very fine server and a inagiHtiivut vollwer. but comparatively weak, off the ground fur such a fine, player. American play <ts generally wore more showy than English players, but Beals Wright was an exception, being more solid than showy Mr 4. / . H’lfdfu.<7. Lawn Tennis Champion. 'l'lic popularity of Phil May is main tained, and will always be maintained, by reason of the quality that carried Dickens into the affection of the nation his kindly good humour overflowing with sympathy and indulgence* for his fellows To Im* a .philanthropist involves a sense of humour Phil May’ was a philanthropist, too one who delights us with bis fun use of cuniiuality. as many an other graphic humorist has done, but who, at the same time, appeals to deeper chords which vibrate in unison with hia own. Therein lies the easenc of his charm . nut in his art alone is his genius revealed.— Mr ll'. 11. Spielman. It was satisfactory to know that the action of the various fruit grow, rs* associations in New Zealand, when they backed up the Department of Agriculture in the forward movement it took iu regard to fruit imports, has resulted in much good, not only to the* local trade in keeping the fruit fly out, but to New South Wales men in showing what is necessary to save their trade.— Hon fL McNab.

Fruit vanning is developing annually In different district* and will not only claim a proportion of the best fruit available for their purposes, but will also materially assist in steadying the markets durirtg the summer months by rein ' ing them of any surplus. An excellent illustration of this is supplied by the Frimley Canning factory. These aheuld, I think, relieve any feelings of apprehension on the score of overplanting. J/r. H . .4. Boucher, Government Fomologist. « • * • The New Smith Wales Government has had legislation on the statute book for some time dealing with the fruit pest, but has been deterred from putting it into effective opt ration by the cost. The result has been that some orchardists have kept theii orchards clean only to be polluted by those which were not so kept. Recently. not only the New Zealand Government, but other Governments, havo imposed restrictions upon the importation of fruit, and it has brought home to the growers that unless the orchards are kept clear, the trade will be lost. The Government has now strengthened its staffs, and is coping with the whole question very successfully—l am told by the orchard ists, so successfully, in fact, that in a year or two they hope to have complete contiol over the codlin moth and the fruit fly.—Hon. /?. jJfc.Vuft. Then* was absolutely no truth in the report that Great Britain would shortly proclaim a protectorate over Egypt, or was considering the question of annexation. Great Britain had given solemn pledges to Turkey and to the European Powers to respect the Sultan’s rights, and did not desire to go back on that engagement. — Sir Eldon Horst. Through all the forlorn struggle Sir illiani Russell had always fought fairh and never hit below the belt. When the Bank of New Zealand was in trouble and the late l\!r. Seddon told the House the Bank must have a guarantee of two millions or close its doors, an Opposition leader was subjected to a great temptation to embarrass the Government, but Sir William was patriotic ami interviewed Air. Seddon, “The responsibility is yours, because T am not acquainted with the fac ts but we will help you.”— Mr. E. H. M ill Mtns, Hawke’s Bay. I hc difficulties the Opposition had to face in Parliament were verv great, but the members worked well togc-fhei without jealousies, with the resolute determination of advancing the interests of the colony, and. over and over a<min thev negle. t. d their own interests ti liek into shape the many erwie ami nndim-ste.l measures thrown on the table. ’J'hese measures, in their original form, would wrecked the Government and. as the result of the Opposition endeavours, many of the measures for which the Government got credit were more the worked the Opposition.— S’,r II i11i.i,,. Personally. j think that must of th? industrial disputes for some years to come will be settled on the basi's of voluntary agreements beta.s-n the employers and employees, the l.alxtur bodies being averse to sectional, and. in manv instances. irresponsible stiikers. _\t ' present there is a live movement to combine all the labour Isalies of the country in one complete federation. and we’ are hopeful tlmt in the future no union of workers will declare a strike without consulting the executive and considering all the advice that will be tendered them.—l/, />. IL/ar.n, V.P. I he colonists whom Burke defended very after all but a feeble folk. less than t ■ ■■ million-, scattered along the eastern fringe of a continent, with the ocean hsBH<l and a ,;g.. wilderness on the oti.vr. 1 hey have since overspread that continent, and stretched out. in eithe- henii-.p1,. > . t,, the islands of the •“ '• 1 :, in here on Burke's threshold to titter the x dee. feebly and inadequately it may 1. . i , the authentic voice of the people of i.oxx n irly ‘io millions, in reverent and affectionate gratitude to the memory. the un<lx..,j memory. of their llngli-h friend in x le at Britain.—Vr H R< id, Ante, it n Ami »B«ador. I ii x i lire, .pun ters of ail the patents • ■' • 11• • ■,■ • 11 interest are < . .in in O’ 1 in am it is. of comse, in i , many y in factory pre t i.... the sioe <pia non to its operation, 1 American e anufaetur-r v ho does n< re.ili-.- in .i [ rn< tieal xxay that he can n<» Ltuger r- ! y for auccv-m upon trade cuui-

binations. upon cheap raw material, upon an ultra-protective tariff, upon negligent Government supervision, and so on and so on, but that henceforward essentially he must stand or fall by the <legre • of efficiency he has obtained in his factory, will bitterly rue his ance and his. negligence.— Mr K. K. Du no a n. • • • • Take the case of a first-class -teainer. With a holiday rush on inconveniences are experienced because the st.-amer carries a larger number of passengers than it dot's under ordinary cir<ninstances. But it is not reasonable to blame the steamship owners because they are not able to provide the necessary accommodation for everyone who wants to travel at the same time.—Nir .Joseph Ward. When the franchise had been extended and manhood suffrage granted there was bound to be retrogressive legislation for a time, because the people did not appreciate the jiower given to them, and in exercising it they only thought of themselves and not of the community as a whole. — Mr John Dal hie. The labour policy is distinctly on the lines of increased taxation on land values as a means of compelling the subdivision of large estates. There can lx? no doubt that the land taxation policy of New Zealand, so far as it has gone, has done a great deal of good in the direction of settling the country. Another question which is agitating the publicmind at present is that of immigration, the Labour party being opposed to the expenditure of public money in paying assisted passages, holding that if the large estates are subdivided and the native land brought more into use. population will be attracted by th? fitness of the countrv without anv financial aid.— Mr I). McLaren, M.P. There had been much good legislation, but there had been much which militated against private enterprise, and it was the duty of the Opposition to come between such faulty legislation and the efforts of private enterprise to develop the country in a wholesome and practical manner.— !/r D. 1). Mt-Leu a. Hawkes Bay. I’owns like Hastings w* re built up on the success of the country settlers, and bi* could n«»t imagine a greater wrong to the country districts than the second ballot was, because of the difficulty of bringing settlers to the poll at a busy season to the neglect of their work.— Mr Buchanan. M.P. Sir William Russell was indeed a knight without reproach, and although it wa~ difficult to speak of a man in his prrsi-mc. hr could not help saying that he had never met any man. public or private. who had higher courage and more fidelity to his principles than their guest.— l/r Buchanan. M.P.

badly afflicted with bh'OdJt sne<s fv. a long ” Just about tb-re* y« ar ago I g. • into a very bad state <»f health through n»y Uh-»d getting very poor ” said Mrs. l.askei. “My fa e was terribly pale with d rk ring- under ji v » yes. ami my lips and g- tn* were quilt white. Sometimes my fr«- ami ankhs were puffed very badly. If 1 calked Kly or did any ahrd work I g« t very edioit of breath ami gasped painfu ly. The llutteiing ««f my heart was mon* than I could bear. Aery often 1 hid fttt.irk* »>f giddiness, and would fall if I didn’t quickly g-asp something. Twite I fainted right off. “ I was nerv< is. and • oidd not I ear being In th<* house alone. I s :iTvrcd with awful he.ul.ijhes and used to go about with wet towels on my head to get relief. My appetite vanished; nothing vould tempt m? to make a m< al. When I went to b- : 1 t< sse;l about for hours trying to go to sb < p. In the morning I fel: tired ami worn out. Every day I felt myself growing weaker and did not care what happened. At last a friend advised my mother to give me Dr. Williams’ I’ink Pills. ’Plie first two boxes made me much hotter. I kept on taking them until I had finished five boxes, when 1 was in bett< r health than T bad <v« • been in my life.”