The Feilding Star. KIWITEA & OROUA cOUNTIES GAZETTE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1894. FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 8 October 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1894. FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

This colony has special reason for gratitude in the fact that there exists no probability of a rupture between France and England, and that these great powers intend to keep up friendly relations with each other. A European war would have been disastrous to New Zealand. We have had a period of unwonted depression in all branches of trade and commerce, which has retarded the progress of the colony in a degree that can only be designated as painful. It is not too much to say that the "dawn of a new day" of prosperity is visible, but had there been such a war as appeared to be threatened last weak trade would have become duller than ever, and commerce have been paralysed altogether. We indicated in a previous article on the subject that in our opinion, howerer excited the French might be by the vapou rings of blatant politicians and the outpourings a of Wadjy regulated Press, the English were not likely to take them too seriously, and that opinion has been justified by subsequent events. Since that article appeared! however, we have read three books\ published in England, giving imaginary accounts of battles by sea and land between the French and Russians on the one side and the English, Germans, Austrians and Italians on the other. No doubt they are cleverly written, and are compiled by men who thoroughly understand the subject of war in its modern aspects, but they are not calculated to conciliate a nation so peculiarly sensitive as the French, but on the contrary contain much matter of an irritating character. So that if the French Press is bad, the English cannot boast that they are immaculate. " All's well that ends well," and we are glad that the evil days have been indefinitely postponed.