Cleanings.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 758, 24 July 1894, Page 7

Cleanings.

What is war ? I believe half the people that talk about war have not the slightest idea of what it is. In a short sentence it may be summed to be the combination and concentration of all the horrors, atrocities, crimes, and sufferings of which human nature on this globe is capable.—John Bright.

‘ Nature ’ intimates that the British Museum has acquired a section of one of the California big trees (Sequoia gigantea), the rings in which show it to be 1,330 years old. The tree is a mere sapling compared with some of those standing, or the stumps of which are in Calaveras Grove. If any dependence is to be placed on the rings of wood indicating growth—a popular conclusion which we {Daily Chronicle had not long ago occasion to doubt—one of these trees is 2,500 years of age. But there are some which, it is to be hoped, will not be cut down—the grove being now a State reserve—which are undoubtedly much more venerable.

I have heard men of business and I have heard working men speak as though Christianity was opposed to buying and selling and getting gain; but I find its Founder, on the contrary, commending those who had gained by trading, and condemning the man who had made no use or increase of his capital. Religion says to us, get as much wealth as you can, but get it honestly, because a false balance, a false sample, a false brand, is abomination unto the Lord ; because, as it is written, a faithful man, a man * whom you can trust,’ shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich, he who is not satisfied with a fair profit, a fair wage, he who speculates and gambles, ‘ shall not be innocent.’—Dean Hole.

A good many instances have been given of the curious results which will follow the passing of the Parish Councils Act, but perhaps none are more curious than that threatening J'ettenhall, a little parish near Wolverhampton. This place, though extremely small, will have to be divided into two, with the result that one would have no church, no schools, and no place even in which a public meeting could be held. The new parish, too, would require to have a separate name. The sister parish would have two churches and three national schools. The ratepayers are to be called together to consider their anomalous position.

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