Our Suicides
We are ' getting on ' in New Zealand. In 190U there were (>8 suicides in the Colony. In 1901 the number had risen to 7(9. The current l Year-Book ' counts just a hundred persons in New Zealand who threw aside the burden of life without waiting for heaven to give the summons. It appears, on the other hand, that self-slaughter, once so prevalent among J Jie Maori, is now on the decline among the brownskinned.men. So may it be. But it is a curious reversal of conditions to see the Maori setting a lesson in civilisation to the pal-eha. Great Butain, France, Germany, and the United States are content to sit humbly at the feet of Japan and learn Irom the lately despised ' yellow monkeys ' the art of war. Well, the degenerate white man may learn some lessons in a still nobler art from other ' inferior races ' that we know of— the art of bearing patiently the big mischances as well as the smaller blisters of lile.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6, 8 February 1906, Page 18
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168Our Suicides New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6, 8 February 1906, Page 18
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