EARLY SETTLERS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1623, 14 December 1912, Page 11

EARLY SETTLERS

to remain in subjection.'for five hundred years. ' ' : ; •;';■./ • ■'■" ■■■ ''■ ■ ■ The Wheels of Fate, v v . >' On; Batarday : tlie : triumphant Servian , Bimy-passed by the Jsoene of this humiliation, driving their ancient enemies before . them. The. pavilion, was designed by Professor Bagalqvic, ;:of Belgrade.' ' The idea of the "fragments of the Temple of Kossovo" was that of Me'strovic, who designed most of the sculpture and'gave his • imprint to the rest, Toma Eosandic, Nico Bodrozicy and B. Penic being his chief collaborators". Mestrovio is-a'Servian, but the group of sculptors and painters gathered around him are Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnians, and Dalmatians. Under the name.of Servia are reassembled in this movement of art the kindred forces of those different States and communities that once were parts of tho Servian Empire that fell to pieces at the death of Douschah on the fields of Kosbovo, just as several of them now are joining arms against their old conqueror in. Macedonia/. That national jealousies did not prevent these artists from worl&ig together under the flag of Servia and under Mestrovic's leadership in Rome in 191!- is surely a great augury for. future brotherhood when the war.is over and frontiers ere to be redrawn. It is a national effort, inspired by a single fury of national hate and aspiration,, which, is without parallel in modern art. ' .- •' The Source of Their Inspiration. , The _ memories of their common past, with, its humiliations and sorrows 'sept alive, by tho constant incoming of■ fugi-. tives from tho Turkish oppression in Macedonia, are here seen not only to' have made, possible their federation, but to ■ havo inspired their art. . It is no half-sweet sadness of "old un- . nappy, ■ far-off ■ things and battles' long ago, but of a terrible longr-suppressed fury with urihappy things at hand and battles, to come. One imagines euch a fury boiling up in these twisted, knotted figures and swelling national images. Ivan Mestrovic, to whose 'genius we owe the ddea and the main , part of these "fragments of the Temple of Kossovo," was for years a shepherd on his father's moun- . tain farm. ■ ■ ■' ; His inspiration was the folk-song and CITT MILK SUPPLY. ; v mm MINISTER OP PUBLIC HEALTH Jl naving licensed the DEPOT in Dixon Street, as a Milk Station, an Officer has been specially appointed by the DEPARTMENT OP PUBLIC HEALTH to examine ALL THE MILK being delivered to and, from Hio Depot. Tho Public are invited to avail themselves of the benefits of the scheme, and forward tho movement for a PUKE MILK . SUPPLY, by insisting that the Milk supplied to them has feen examined by the HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S OFFICER, ■■■' it , . '■; -'. THE MILK DEPOT. . . Dixon Street. . ..-. . ... Telephones, M and 535»

: "Can. Wellington raise a bullock dray?" was a question which was put at a meeting of the sports committee which has

been'set up by the Early Settlers' Association to draw up the sports programme for the forthcoming anniversary Day celebrations to be' held at Newtown Park'. The question has. not been settled. The programme as drawn up last, night promises to.be such that will transport many of our early pioneers back to the days when" Anniversary Day used to be celebrated on Tβ Aro flat'and on other grassy plots now covered with brick and mortar. There will be the greasy pole, the greasy pig, dipping for apples, treacle bun, wheel race, "wheelbarrow race, the'skittle ally, Aunt Sally, ham on pole/ quoits, grinning through a horse collar, tug-o/-war, 1810 v. 1850, a baby show, beside? games and sports for children. Altogether the seventy-third anniversary of the birth' of this city should be one that will long bo remembered. A vigorous canvass for trophies is to be instituted, arid the committee anticipate a ready response to such a worthy movement.