Australian News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 787, 1 April 1905, Page 3

Australian News.

gVHMABY OF PASSING EVENTS. -DANGER OF BISHOPS WARNING, pOULBTJRN, ilaich' 17. At a smokV concert last flight in connection with' the Agricultural Society's Show, Bishop Barlow, in proposing the loost of the Federal Parliaments, said that nover before had there been a time when it was more necessary that citizens should put their hearts and souls and all tncpowers they possessed into the task ol guaiding the Commonwealth from the great overshadowing danger of acute Socialism. He believed that the country was intended by Providence to cany a great nation, but he *swtcd to warn th^m of ~K' that was at their doors, threatening to drown their country. He had not oiie word' to say against labour and he believed in men combining, - «n the principle that unity is Strength. He was a labour man himself, as much as any man who worked with his hands. He thought all .who worked with their heads were .entitled to be called labour men, but be wished to point out that this thng called Socialism was a dangerous, poiuonoii.4. and theoretical K scheme, which threatened to soon tiring about the disruption of the country. Anything that made wages better was good, but as for this thing, if he had read an*.«lug of _ -jthD social problem at all The would 5*" u - JPX Mwt there was a gre* deal of §§y3jra* l ? Bil s' to Keep wide op-