Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 28, 1902. Then and Now.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JAN. 28, 1902. Then and Now.

Me W. T. Stead, the editor-in-ohidf of the Review of Reviews, is distinctly, in many ways, a remarkable man. During the past two or three years he has got into much disfavour with every reading inhabitant of the British Empire by the extraordinary action he has taken in support of the Boers in the South African war, and we have had, only recently, an example of his supposed disinterestedness in refusing to be paid for an advertisement in the Australasian Review of Reviews because those paying did so under the impression he was not interested in that periodical. In the early history of the English Review of Reviews very interesting reading matter was supplied by Mr W. T. Stead, entitled “ Character Sketch,” relating to distinguished persons. Under what conditions Mr Stead’s views may be changed we are not acquainted with, but in one place writing as to Kruger’s desire to draw closer to Germany, Mr Stead says “ When Mr Secretary Leyds went to Berlin last autumn (1895) it was currently reported in the Transvaal that he took with him some £85,000 secret service money. £35,000 was to be spent in paying the passage of 6000 time-expired German soldiers, who were to be supplied with farms in the Transvaal, in return for which they would supply His Honour the President with a Pretorian Guard guaranteed as safe against any British conspiracy. The remaining £50,000 was to be used in influencing—bribing if you like—certain personages in Lisboa in order to facilitate the acquisition by the Boer Government of a controlling influence in the Delagoa railway. Rumour may lie, but that is what rumour said, and continues to say.” This extract proves that Mr Stead believed the Boer Government were making treasonable arrangements against the British Government, who held thesuperior power over the Transvaal of preventing foreign alliances on the part of the Boers. In the April number of the Review of Reviews of the year 1896 Mr Stead has a Character Sketch on Paul Kruger, and in it we find the following statements :—“ Paul Kruger possesses many notes of distinction. But he is distinguished above all his fellows by the sublime contempt which he has always displayed for everything that is distinctive of modern Liberalism. This patriarchal Boer, who bids fair to become the patron saint of the Little Englanders, (most wonderful prophecy, Ed.) has about as much regard for the principles dear to “Truth'” and the “Daily Chronicle ” as he has for pockethandkerchiefs and the English language.” . . . . “Mr Kruger and Mr Labouchere seamed to figure as the great Twin brethren who fought so well for Rome. I could not help smiling (please note the expression, Ed.) at the odd juxta position of the two names; Mr Labouchere and Mr Kruger—surely without a single sympathy in common save that of common hostility to the civilising sovereignty of our race.” Comparing Mr Labouchere with Mr Kruger Mr Stead says, “ If you want to know what Mr Kruger is, imagine him as being everything Mr Labouchere is not. . . . Mr Kruger

v: . ';. .aJ curse v/hich fell upon

Canaan, and the blackman in the Transvaal has learned his place too well to claim mure than a very remote kinship with the dominant Boer. . . . “ While Mr Labou-

chore has been labouring to secure the rule of the majority, Mr Kruger has been labouring not less successfully to establish the rule of the minority. . . . The air is thick with stories of corruption, of secret service money, of downright bribery, that would do credit to Tammany Hall or Chicago City Council." “ Wherein," is asked, “ lies the tie between the two men ?” and as years have rolled on the question can be enlarged as to why the candid critic Stead has been influenced to side with Kruger and oppose the best interests of his own. country ? Beading further on we find Mr Stead admitting that this secret service money was being used antagonisticly to the Empire, yet he wrote, and therefore knew of the Convention of 1884 which “ retained as the last solitary relic of Imperial supremacy a clause which provided that all treaties concluded by the Transvaal with foreign Powers and the native tribes should be subject to the veto of the Imperial power.” The article concludes with “ What Kruger should do." “ Therein lies his great temptation. II he had but been statesman enough to disarm his opponents by timely concessions ha would not have found much difficulty in wedding Uitlander and Boer into a homogeneous Republic. ...... • So Paul Kruger has gone on the same line as the Sultan of Turkey, whom ho resembles in many ways, with the result that he has achieved, like the Shadow of God at Stamboul, an immediate personal victory at the cost of ultimate extinction. . . . But there seems to be little hope of the President taking the brave and statesmanlike course of proclaiming a general amnesty, giving Johannesburg a good municipality, and allowing naturalisation after five years’ residence. Yet nothing short of that will deliver the South African Republic from the perpetual fret of revolutionary discontent.”

The police report that the town was very quiet and orderly last week, the race week. There is no doubt but that the hard drinking of the olden days, on a holiday, has grown in disrepute, and a good job too. Of course a few blackguards still drink to excess, but they are very few. A pack of wolves overtook and devoured a party of eighteen persona returning from a weddipg at Usicha, in Servia.

Next Sunday the Rev. E. S. Waine will take all the services at All Saints' Church. At the evening service it is the intention of Mr Waine to give an account of the mission work in Melanesia, from which part of the world he has but lately come fsom.

The trial of Thomas Caradoc Kerry and George Mumford on a charge of wrecking the yacht Ariadne has been concluded. Kerry was found “ not guilty ” by the jury and was discharged. Mumford was found guilty and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

Masterton was visited on Friday night by a violent storm, which did considerable damage to orchards, besides uprooting numerous trees and shrubs

Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd. in a foot note to their Palmerston sale desire it to be known that in future the sale will start sharp at one o’clock quite independent of any other sale that may be proceeding at the same time.

“St James’s Gazette ” states that Lord Rosebery, in declining the leadership of the Liberal party, based his action on Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man’s refusal to withdraw the statement that methods of barbarism had been employed by the British in the war.

Captain R. Seddon, son of the Premier, and formerly of the fifth New Zealand Contingent, is going back to South Africa with the Eighth Contingent with the rank of cap*ain in the Wellington section. The Rev. Herbert F- Wilson will commence his duties as Vicar of .Foxton on Ash Wednesday. The Bishop will install Mr Wilson in his office on Thursday evening 13th February. Commenting on Viscount Cranborne’s statements in the House of Commons with reference to the action of Great Britain in connection with the Spanish-American war, the new York newspapers declare that England was actively friendly to America, Russia and Italy were indifferently friendly, Austria and France actively hostile, and Germany mischievously hostile.

The Danish Minister at Washington has been instructed to sign the sale of the Danish West Indies to America.

Miss Stone, the lady missionary captured some months ago by brigands, is well. Negotiations for her release are still proceeding. A lady, who has just returned from a visit to the Old Country, informed the Fielding Star that she was present about six weeks ago at a meeting in an out of the way village in Scotland, and when the name of New Zealand was mentioned, the audience rose as one man and gave three hearty cheers. Sheep are moving from Hawke’s Bay to Canterbury in quantities, says the H.B. Herald. Since Thursday last Mr G. P. Donnelly has sent 8400 to Canterbury to the order of Messrs W. B. Clarkson. Of this lot 756 a are ewes, 4 6-tooth and fresh full-mouths, the balance being 848 store wethers; 3300 went from Crissoge on Friday last, another 2700 followed from Waimarama on Monday, and by the Pukaki 250 leave again from the Waimarama station. They will be shipped from the breakwater.

What is labour coming to ? The ( Post of Saturday says shipping agents were wroth this morning owing to their inability to secure labour to work cargo oa vessels in port. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company required three gangs of men to labour on the Aotea, but was only able to procure one gang. Yesterday work on the Union Steamship Company's vessel Rotoiti was hindered from the same cause; and the agents of the Charles Edward were in similar trouble this morning. Employers of labour state emphatically that although there are numbers of idle men on the wharves they will only work at their own convenience, and oven when they do work they will put on their coats at the slightest provocation and leave their tasks." The other day a man came to. the camp of some flax-cutters "wanting " work and being Saturday they put him up and gave him tea, bed and breakfast the next morning, and told him they would take him on at wages at which the others made fifteen shillings a day. At dinner time he was gone. He had succeeded in getting what he did not want.

Mr R, Valle, a New Zealander, is a candidate, as a Radical Roseberyite, for the Ecclesall division of Sheffield in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the death of Sir Ellis Ash-mead-Bartlett.

It Is understood, says the Post, that the Government has notified the Wei-lington-Manawatu Railway Company of its intention to inspect the line, in terms of the Public Works Act, which is taken to mean another step towards the ultimate acquisition of the property by the Government. A lucky escape. At the Palmerston S.M. Court on Saturday the irrepressible John Burke O'Brien pleaded not guilty to a charge of being drunk yesterday, but the Bench discredited his assertion, and he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Accused made a voluminous appeal to the Court to let him off, stating he had during the past few days paid his railway fare to Foxton on three different occasions, missing the train, however, each time.

The Prince of Wales has left, on a visit to the German Emperor. The “ North German Gazette" cordially welcomes the visit, and hopes the goodwill on both sides will be strengthened.

The rails are now laid within three miles of Mangaweka, and the engine will tun to the town by the of February.

Replying to a question regarding Manchuria, in the House of Commons, Viscount Cranborne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, said Great Britain’* policy was to maintain the status quo in China established by treaty.

Speaking in the House of Commonsi Viscount Cranborne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, stated that the occupation of a seaport in the Persian Gulf by any Power was inconsistent with the maintenance of the status quo. We would call the attention of our readers to the advertisement in to-day’s issue notifying that Mr Lawrence E. Reade, formerly oi Invercargill arid lately of Feilding, has commenced the practice of a barrister and solicitor in the offices opposite the railway station, thereby saving persons who are desirous of transacting legal business the expense as well as loss of time in travelling to Palmerston North. Mr Reade is- also prepared to undertake the duties of land and commission agent, and has money to invest at'his disposal. His office is in Main-street. On Wednesday week the Foxton Rifles will fire a match with the Palmerston Guards at 300, 500 and 600 yards—seven shots each with two sighters—seven men aside. The Foxton men will pick their team on Thursday evening next. The rates for the dog tax for this year is advertised elsewhere.

We are informed that next week Dr* Percival will take up his residence in the town and commence the practice of his profession. Last night the Committee appointed to discuss camp matters decided to apply for the use of the racecourse. The camp will be held from 19th to 26th February. It is expected that during camp a number of the Palmerston Volunteers will attend camp from Saturday night to Monday as guests of the local corps. William Loft was convicted this morning of assaulting William J. Moss and was ordered to be imprisoned for one month with hard labour, and for assaulting William Reid was convicted and sentenced similarly, the sentences to be cumulative.

A gentle reminder. In the House of Commons, Viscount Cranborne, Foreign Under-Secretary, the other day, announced that prior to the .Spanish-American war several Powers suggested that a Joint Note should be sent to the United States. Britain having ascertained America’s wishes, joined in hoping for a peaceful settlement, with guarantees acceptable to America. During the war Britain refused to join in proposals for putting pressure on America by offering an opinion on America’s attitude.

A singular sight was witnessed during a thunderstorm at dunes, Victoria, recently. A resident observed a luminous circle in the clouds, from the rim of which flashes of lightning shot out. He watched the sight for about five minutes, when he was forced inside by the rain and wind. The Government Astronomer attributes the phenomenon to globular lightning, a very unusual and dangerous form ot electrical discharge. The phenomenon is so rare that very little is known about it, beyond the fact that it appears as a luminous sphere, sometimes stationary, sometimes moving slowly, and with a diameter varying from a few inches up to 2ft or 3ft. It generally explodes with great violence. SANDER and SONS EUCALPYTI EX TRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the hightest professional standing, there are offered Euoalpyli Ex tracts which possess no curative qualities. In protection of the world wide fame 0! Sanders and Sons preparation we publish

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