A Want and a Reminder

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 10 May 1906, Page 1

A Want and a Reminder

The great volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, in 1883, set up a vast ocean wave that swept over the waters of the earth, and rocked vessels that lay ai anchor as far off as Panama and Ocl on. In many minor and different ways the San Francisco calamity has also been felt at the ends of the earth. Uhe temporary derangement of the postal service, for instance, left New Zealand last week without its accutibomed mails. The lack is felt) both in our news and editorial columns of the present issue. Well, it is a small reminder that we mortals) stand not apart in wholly isolated groups upon this old planet -of ours. 4 We live not in ourselves, but we become Portions of that around us.' Mankind is too often cold to sorrows that arc afar off. But wo get little reminders once in a way that ' make all flesh kin.'