Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909. GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4359, 12 January 1909, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1909. GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA.

This above all —to thine own self be true, 4 nd it must follow as the night the day Thou const not then be fals9 to any mm Shakespeare.

“Woe to the nation and woe to the age, and woe, woe to the man ” “ Thafc.live not outside of themselves. To them dissolution is near.” “ Hoalthful j»q4 happy are they that, dUmbting 'the general plan,” “ Are mpved with the Movement of things, and have joy in the general cheer.”

(Owen Meredith.) The reports which come to us from time regarding Indian affairs, and more particularly the recent report of the concessions granted by the Government of Great to the people of India, inevitably carry the mind back to that*tim§ in the history of the great peninsula when, as the historian ffreen has it “ the genius of Warren Hastings laid the foundation of an Indian Empire. Crown and the East India Company both to please, and with natiyif' disturbances to deal with his achievement had been one of extreme difficulty. Unfortunately bis career had been marred by a harshness which brought him into gfravs difficulty, for though the charges uppch were levelled at him impeachment were exaggerated, his rule had been too jiuch on the lines of (tyrannical proceedure. And it was not according to British public feeling, even at that date, thai-features of administration which Were native to India should be perpetuated by an Englishman ruling there. Public indignation was aroused, and an enquiry made into his administration. Burke moved' forhis impeachaiid .. .. though ; Hastings ultimately secured" Ah Secq ulttal yet, as Green says “ the end at which the impeachment aimed had really been won. ” The sympathy of Englishmen down to the peasantry itself, had been aroused for the people of India. The trail of Warren Hastings took place in 1786, but not until the year 1858 was the government of India transferred to the British Crown. 1 So tEat it is just half a century from that time to the present granting to India what Dr Ghose, the President of the Indian National Congress, describes as “ something like constitutional Government. ” This we are glad indeed to feel, is something like aiding a great congeries of alien peoples to coalesce and achieve national being of the higher order. The move fyas been inevitable. To have superseded the “ mutual unintiligibility ” which obtained when the different tribes and peoples of India had no common medium of articulation, by giving them the English tongue,' to have railwayed the country so 1 as to annihilate the sense of disunion arising out of the sense of distance, thus giving an impulsb to the desire for political power, and also supplying ready means of communication *to have granted such boons as these must necessarily be followed up by granting of the requirements which they have created. We are not disposed to look with apprehension upon Britain’s liberal concessions. Liberality, to the point of what to some other nations would appeir almost indulgence, is Britain’s conspicuous characteristic., in dealing with subject peoples. And already in this instance, generous dealing has met with a generous acknowledgement from the eminent Dr Ghose, who said that “ Indians had best show themselves deserving of Great Britain’s confidence. ” We trust that they will. But in any case, and whatever the ultimate outcome, if Great Britain has but the satisfaction of having wrought the disunited millions of India into one great progressive nation, she has achieved under heaven one piece of enduring good which shall suffice her for all the difficulties attendant upon her administration of her Indian Empire

Something appeared to go wrong with. tl:e works Ht the "“Te Aroha railway station yesterday morning. The outgoing trains were more or less late, and the travelling public put to dome inconvenience inconsequence. A rare treat is in store for residents of Te Aroha and district. On 28th inst. the Paeroa Operatic Sooiety has decided to stage the beautiful and ever-popular *• Pirn fore ” Public Hall. Everything will be of the best: scenery, limelight, orchestra, etc., no less than 68 performers taking part. The whole will be staged under the management of Mr Val. Atkinson. ' i In To Aroha, as in most other places, ’ Saturday is considered a bad show night. Notwithstanding this fact there were a. good number put in an appearance at the Public Hall on Saturday evening last, when Messrs MacMahon and Carroll presented for the first time in Te Aroha a marvellous realistic series ox animated pictures depicting the famous Bums-Squires pugustic. bout for the world’s championship. The other pictures shown were also very fine, and proved the machine used, to be ’ of the “ non-flickering ” variety, and well worth seeing. •' * •' | The following tenders were received on J Saturday last for driving 100 ft. in the i.Np. 1 Driye in this Murphey’a Find QlwifQ, Te Aroha :>—S. Taylor and party, ! 5$ per foot; P. O’Keefe and Hanley, * ll.lgg;' %?obes and party; £1 16s; J. W 15s ; k Hogan, £l , IAC* Wlfa.6d; Petetson and Lane, £1 12s 6d ; T, Morgan 7 and party “I gathered this money with great. difficulty, but having no relative who is j in absolute need, I make thee, whosoever , shall read this Bible, to be my heir,” , Naturally a Herue Hill gardener named Wallace, recently thrown out of - work* j was pleasantly surprised to find (when seated reading to his family from a Bible he had bought before lur misfortune from aComberwell second hand shop( a couple of £5 notes carefvlly passed between the leaves. The inscription was * in red ink. j Diners in a city restaurant were a little startled recently (says a Wellington paper) when a young wolnan, apparently L ft A -!? * • 3

about li years of age, insisted in joining into conversation with those seated at the tables on general principles. Sympathetic inquiries elicited the fact delivered in shaky sentences amid incipient sobs—that she was an immigrant from England and had broken through the proprieties out of sheer lonliness. “ I have not seen a kind face since I have been in New Zealand ” was one ejaculation. And then, from behind her handkerchief, came this : “If there was dry land between here and England I would walk back.” Many people have an idea that eucalyptus, taken internally, is an excellent medicine, says the Argus. In this belief, they take it as if it were castor oil in tablespoonfuls. As a matter of fact, eucalyptus is a medicine to be , taken sparingly, it is quite possible that an overdose will kill as effectually as any other poison. A few drops on sugar may do good ; a* tablespoonful may do an immense amout of harm. John Sullivan, 45 years of age, had asthma, j and to cure it relied upon the time-hon- 1 oured eucalyptus oil.: He took three tablespoonsfuls of it and walked out of the. Home for Aged Poor Infirm, of which place he was an inmate, to be picked up later by Constable Connolly on a vacant allotment at South Richmond. He was admitted to tlte j Melbourne Hospital suffering from the f offect#*>&the .poison, and is now ing*. •' ' V '< ' ' j Two smart sales were brought under our notice the other day, and both were } o Tec ted by local horse dealers, says the Wairarapa Standard. An employer of horses had resolved on getting rid of a horse that was little or no use To him, and a dealer got him for £3. His new owner touched him up a bit, and offered him for sale at the yards, when he was re-purchased by his original owner for £2l. Some weeks ago a local farmer approached a dealer, who happened to haTe an animal that would suit, but the / price asked didn’t. There was a ence of £3, the dealer wanting £lB and the farmer offering £ls. Rather than ' lose the chance of the sale, the dealer dropped his price to £l6 10s, but still the farmer was obdurate—he knew the ! value of a horse when he saw one. Well, ' the deal did not come off, and the dealer sent the horse to Dannevirke yards the following week, when ha brought £27, 1 pnd the Woodville farmer was the * purchaser ! , |