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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 5

Chinese cheap labour is making itself Mt even ip Europe. Swedish matchmakers have until recent ly controlled the principal markets of the world, and immense quantities of their product have been exported in every direction. The Chinese have gone into the business, however, and, in accordance with their usual custom, have commenced by cutting down piices to a limit which cannot be reached even bv the cheape-tof European cheaplabour. Chinesemade matches are now being sold m Ham burg and other European ports for 27s 6d a case less than the Swedish article, and as a consequence the history of many industries in California bids fair to be repeated abroad.

The Taranaki “Herald,” in its review of the School History of New Zealand, by Frederick J. Moss, M.H.It., observes:— “ It is a great pity Mr Moss calls his little book a ‘ school ’ iiistory, because we fear the prefix is misguiding ; and the readers into whose hands it will go are n t exactly the ones who would read’ it with interest. The adult reader seeking information on the history of the colon v would be misled by i s title, and no more think of purchasing it than he would Miss Bourke’s 1 Little History of New Zealand,’ which is so full of errors that we are nob surprised at Sir George Grey saying, ‘ Our dates and the early history of the colony are in an indifferent state. 1 am sorry to see the wrong way in which they attribute to some persons thing* done by other ; teach them in schools. Who answered truly would be set dowq as a dunce ; who answers wrongly, may get a scho'arsliip.’ Mr Moss’s history we have read through with a great deal of interest. Considerable ability is displayed in the compilation and tyritjng pf this book, which cannot fajl to ex,cite persops to seek for further information regarding the history pf New JSeahitid, and we have po doubt the work will secure a large sale, as it deserves. It haß an excellent index at Che etid, and altogether it is. a book for all to have on their libiary shelves. The book is very neatly printed and bound at the Stab office, ‘ A ucklapd, and is a credi t to that establishment” ‘