Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1792, 4 December 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1895.

\Th Irabove all— le tkSn# owa self ke Iras, &nditmne<b follow as th® night fho day Thou oaoit aob be faluo bo any ssaa.’ • ' ’ BHAEKSPSARB. : '

v ; There is considerable feeling through- . ; out jihO country against the • verdict of 2 with labour passed; upon the youqg man of Hikutaia, who was charged, with ; the murder of a native, named. Rehari, • under peculiar,circumstances., Larragh vsihai frequently; lost sums of : money from his house while at work, iu Order to letect the thief he so arranged a gn,n loaded : with lead ;in v such a pos- : ->itioii ■ thatanyone entering the . building would receive the contents in k- His Vitals.. The Maori attempts an eu- , terance.with the result that he is killed. fi. -do not wish to’ interfere with the '•C justice or to* pyaqfjfdhisn : with criidie, but .in this,nase . is much' to move any man, .Whet ho ;/':.did4wh^.4npß;mrthbi^t^tioh : ''djf;;liiß own property, and we cannot.help thinking the ends of j ustice would have been served if he had' received a ' ‘nominal 1 penalty of, say,'three months • instead of two; yeaYS. sTfab Herald .referring’-'to', the fitter says : is not merely that the cold, hard iechniquo Of few makes what he did a crime, but, that . reason seems to she w that it ought to be regarded as j a crime: The" law,' as * was lucidly t ; shown by the Judge, makes the set-*,

ting of such a death-trap, at least in the daytime, a crime; and it also .affirms that a man doing an illegal act is responsible for the results, even though they may in magnitude far exceed what he had contemplated. There'is a good, deal of wisdom in this,' apart from its being layy ; because as a man in such. circumstances has the option-of taking or -not taking the initiative, he should be uiuler the obligation of carefully thinking out alVthe possibilities that may" arise from his action, inasmuch as his indifference or cirelessness may ’ have had j ust the same ill results to other people, as. if he had deliberately -intended the 'injury. Of course there are cases in which, the action, though illegal, may have been of such a trivial nature compared to the momentous consequence ensuing, - that it would be monstrous to hold a ‘man. liable to the full extent of punishmeht. But mercy always interposes .in such a case, and the discretion placed in the hands of the’ Judges, and. after them, in the Executive, is a safeguard- against, any Draconian administration of the daWs Therefore, there is sufficient provision against any glaring abuse of the principle that a niSn doifig an illegal act is answerable for' its unintentional sequence, and the existence of such a principle' is a valuable perventative against reckless or even thoughtless conduct.

i The chief duties of the Goyejnmbnt of any ' State should be -to 'secure -the greatest possible amount of < -safety, comfort apd general well-being for all the people that compose it. All good governments strive to do this—some a‘ little more, v Qur own, • dear old Grandmother that she takes so lively an interest in our welfare that she strives to. have ,a finger -albeit at times a meddlesome one—in our every pie. Nothing is too large to be beyond her powers, or fo; be too to be unworthy of notice. .'She, means of her yaried and extensive branches, taxes us, protects us, corrects us, brings us into the country, marries us, aye, and buries Ua. She. tells us when to work, how>long to work, and when to make holidays; proclaims Arbor-day, tabor day,' and many another off-day, till tne year becomes riddled'with lost days as the Italian one is with Saints’' days; This andmuch more sfee does, and so she goes on ringing the changes with us in the never-endin g fashion of the Cataract of Lodore. r •:/’ v ;■ ' i _ She experiments with us tom Puts us into - flasks, metaphorically'shakes uis watches: the result, v Sometimes we. settle down quietly en ough, at others there is ebullition, and now and then crash, bang arid up we; go;, Galjnly then; Granny rtriad j ustAher disturbed spectacles and smoothes the. disordered; rringlets she is; at it again, h '■ - Promi : -a-strategical,po.ipt-o|iyiew it is always'belter to occupy and mainr .tain a position half-way to the desired 1 goal, than to go three-quarters of the • distance,, only to; find the position untenable and to , lie obliged'to vacate it and retire. No good general ever does otherwise. This rule holds good, not" only in miUtary operations .wlieh . advancing ,'.-.-into} hostile and unknown country,, but also when entering ,• the realms of advanced thought or experimental socialism It is always, best to make sure of one s ground, to know whether the foundation of the edifice about to be reared is oh. sand or on rock. ' . . * .■

Grandmother, desiring, to create and cultivate a national spirit, has tried many plans: The Old Man, then the Neur AWoman' lastly she bethought her of the Picanninies—not the unborn millions, mind you but those that already have come through “ the underground railway of one of our legislators. Thus reasoned she, Many pf my sons have never viewed the fertile plains where feed the flocks that make the nation wealthy; norhavethey trod where the sun’s rays are hid by leafy canopy; to some whose chiefest melody, thelowingof kine and lark’s shrill carol has been ; tlie music .of the dancing waves that wash our. spa girt islo. will: be new.” “It shall be done,” quoth she, and forthwith the Iron. Horse was harnessed in. A voice within heir murmured “ But cheaply done it must »be,” and cheap it wks. A dear good soul is Grany who’ll gainsay it ? And metaphorically wo embraced her;!Thus was'’ born the School 'Excursion". At whose inception was heard a great sighof relief, a sigh coining from ode disburdened, a heartfelt sigh "olgladness even the sigh of SamuelWaUo.T-an d softly rose in the evening calmness “ At last! at last! even yet may I die contented ! “Everything comes to him that waits.”« . • Then was there bustling to and! fro, mustering of cams gee, trucks£ every kind of railway vehicle.' Crowded platforms, busy ticket offices; : hard worked officials, no lull, no rest, the cry was “ still they come.” In poured passengers, up with leaps and bounds went the railway receipts, and loudly V ail.eitesMjEied “ We told you so has sped. Hushed is the sound of rejoicings, and far .over the land is heard'- sound of wailing. Wailing that that which was gained is lost, lost ei-o the harvest was full. A wicked spirit whispered { see how those Vaileitos dance with glee,’ they havo in the thin end of the; wedge. Pull it out, pull it out quickly j lost they triumph.” It was done. And | that was how the fares were raised. And all the graud-children now rest with heavy "heart. • A failure has al# iys connected with it an element of-sadness. The greater the schema that has not been crowned with success, tlto deeper our regret

and the feeling becomes intensified whep our, own immediate friend on community is brought to mother earth and become, it,may be, a subject for derison also. An 1 this is of them. And empty carriages shall prevail.. •After all,’ as Johiuson, the great Lexicographer, ;V says Most sche'uies of politital improvement are* very laughable .things.’ .: -V ' .