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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 111, 5 September 1902, Page 3

Speaking at New Plymouth, the Rev. F. Bennett, Moari missionary, said that at one time a rangatira needed not to have a written contract —his word whs his bond—bnt to-day a different class of Maori was growing up, equipped with the vices of the I*w class pakelia, and becoming as great, ashark as the sharpest white man. The Maoris as a race were rising to the occasion and doing all they could for the amelioration of the race. He did not think trie Maori race would die out, except by absorption, and if the Maoris were to be absoi bed in the European race,’then it -was necessary the natives should be elevated.

“Well, they (in New Zealand) gave the franchise to women, and the result was that instead of unsexing them it had an ennobling effect, and made it impossible for any man with a stain oi his moral character to stand for a seat in the Colonial Legislature.”—Mr Seddon at St. Helens. The Canadian Government had decided to build a strong wire fence along the border of Alberta and the State of Montana. For years cattle have strayed across this border and given rise to savage 'disputes between Canadian and American cattlemen. The Bulletin, in an article applauding the New York Hex aid for its breaking up of the great American Meat Trust, says it has been laid down by the Supreme Court in Washington that the people have a right to the necessaries and conveniences of life at a price determined by the relations of supply and demand, and the law forbids any combination whereby the price is removed beyond the satisfactory influence of legitimate competition. “If this law wfts good in New South Wales how would the Homebush combine amongst squatters, butchers, auctioneers, ana the Sydney Meat Preserving Company stand ? It is only a paltry affair, but so far as the interests of the Sydney consumer are concerned it certainly does remove the commodity of meat beyond the sphere of legitimate competition. Trusts are awkward things to tackle . . and laws aie apt to be silent under their influences, and the fighting journal is about the only power which will set the law effectively in motion. Unhappily there is no such thing as a fighting journal among the Australian daily papers.” The completion of the body of the United States census work, and the consequent discharge of two thousand five hundred' employees, has caused an era of seeming hard times at the national capital. Washington is overrun with young men and women looking for positions. * # * Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR: — Three Shillings and Six fence a Quarter which may begin any time