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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 159, 27 February 1903, Page 4

A recent Wairarapa visitor, to Sydney, s ivs that Australian mutton carcases do' not weigh more than 35 to 401 bs. A good deal of veal is also being sent to S >uth Africa from Australia. 8 hub of the mutton m the shops was a little bettar than that killed for the use of shepherds' dogs in New Zealand. America's skeleton in the cupboard is the alarming increase of her coloured population, which now numbers teu millions. In the last decade the rate of increase among the whites was a little over 2'"* per cent., whereas the blacks grew at the late of 32 per cent. This fact alone is sufficient to cause anxiety, for it means that in a generation uv s> the coloured race will have the numerical preponderance. As an i levitibie accompaniment must come, s > mer or later, superiority in physical itml political power. So far. no serious attempt has been made to grapple with the difficulty, perhaps for the reason that its significance has not been realised. The efforts of President Roosevddt'to ti'ilue the social gulf between the t.vo imc?;s have been met with a storm of abuse and indignation.

Forty ye us ot freedom have not, so thinks the exclusive southerner, fitted the black man to associate with his white b-other. And yet, it is not easy to find any other solution of the p • >blem th m the fusion of the races. At p -esint, however, there does not seen to be the slightest possibility of this b-utig effectel. SPRAIMS are often more serious then broken bones on account of not being properly treated Apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely as soon as th » mjurv is received and it will quickly restore the parts to a healthy condition A, Manoy sells it.

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