The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1907.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 16 February 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1907.

CURRENT COMMENT. Tlie cablegram wo recently published from Melbourne, which stated tiie possibility of Brisbane being no longer a lore of call for the Vancouver mail service, is ol' great importance to 'vw Zea hi ml, if, as appear-: possible, the capital city of this colony is substituted. 'i'lie extremely unsatisfactory nature of the San Franc sco mail service is a topic that stirs the derision of nio.t New Zealand commercial men. and that service irregular, unreliable, dilatory and generally unsatisfactory, is a great t;i>; on the country, not because of the subsidy paid id tin- Spi-ec-kp!s people, but because of the lo.« of business entailed in the constant delays of tile boats, the lircessity t > us:' the mere expensive cable instead of the mail and the general di location I of bus'no.-

A diivet V ancouver service wii.ii Weliington as the Jiiyt port of call ia Australasia would mean a siiiarL-r, and, it is to be hoped, more reliable method ot' keeping in touch with the outside world. The chief poiiu ol' interest to the colonial; however, i* tliat the Naacouver mail service would be an Ali* Ked service and we should be under no obi Ration to any San Francisco milliona'res for the delivery ot uur mails. it inn i not be forgotten, of course, that the millionaires of San Francisco do not regard the New Zealand mail trade as a bonanza, nor do Uiey regard this country as being of immense importance, eommereia ly con sidered. Jt is much more likely that people belonging to the same Empire, and living under the Union Jack, would be disposed to regard lis and our mails as penjons and business to be dealt more kindly with, it is probably due to the advocacy of the -Premier in conference with the Commonwealth Premier that the matter of the proposed direct Vancouver mail service has been seriously discussed. We sincerely hope for a fruit ? on of tiie Premiers' endeavours. There is no scarcity of boys in New Zealand, but the boy market is certainly noi- in a healthy condition, eommercally considered. Many more or less learned peop.e have advanced reasons for the inability of employee to get boys, and the most sensible seems to be that the colonial boy really believes himse'fto be the equal of the man when he begins to talk in a mixed bass and falsetto, feels the adolescent down onjiis upper bp and takes to cigarettes. The New Zealand boy, fortunately, is au inteJiigent youngster, and he does not believe in passing some years of his life at a small wage or no wage at all. Tue N\'W Zealand boy doesn't much care, about being an apprent ; ce. and it he dors consent io become "hound' he likes the binding to give out at two or thres years. None of the Old Country seven years and a 'shilling a week rise a year for him. The New Zealand boy would rather drive a pen than a dray. There are fewer boys needed for driv;ng pens than drays, but curiously the boy wants a very substantial wage either for driving nails, drays or pens. It is a very good thing for a boy belonging to a young country to have a good conceit of himself, if he lias got anything to be conceited about, but tin- truth nm.4 be told. ,\ New Zealand boy cannot gal her in all ih:» wisilnni of the ages in ;i few years ot school life, and <p#e half of the brilliant scholars of the world are shocking failures. Our labour laws make it dillieult for boys to learn trailer 'liie techn cal schools teach boys irad-s. The boy who has fitteud'd technical hchool has a habit thinking Urn he knows the lust thing about the trade he lias b-':ii studying ;u the school liiis is not so. There Uno tradesman in New Zealand or any other eouniry. who cannot be taught something. I Joy* in New Zealand know thai einpiMvrs lire "breaking the'r necks" id capture a small human specimen of the uial" gender. This makes them independent. The piv.-ent prosperity or the country al-o helps to make hovs indep'Mi. drii;. Kaiiier is earning good wage.-;. Th"iv!oi\' the son needn't h list. e. I'oys regard a "h.;.s.- ' as a person wiio is raliier a niiir-anec between the fooiball or crieket nmtehes. lio\s ulm. nave condescended to wo'*"c /or commercial men usiiallv haven't a" " ave

ideas alti.nu future ear,"T-. i irir vis'oi, stops ;H tin l gaolpesis iir\ I ,S:tlurday cir Ihe wickets next Thursday. Hoy, will lie h,,ys, bul ptreuts <j uii! 1L "ot !" be til" [incuts they are. Parents as a iulr i- tlii'iisons shoird l,i- a little higher ill the soc'al scale than (lie parents. Tuis is perhaps natural. If one could Inve the antecedents of the prcr/'nl lirilish Peerage and liaronetage mustered one would say that people in olden times thought the same thought* a.s parents thm); nowathitys. The bov trouble won't cease until haul times come. If is to be noped that tin.' hard times will iiol come: but, if they do, there will lie no scarcity of b"y npplicants for billet,s. jjoVs don't know half as imieli wh-i, there are soup kitchens about as tliev .lo when there is plenty of imin,'y ab'ou:. Tl» New Zealand liov has too ca-v a (ime It is bad for him.

President Roosevelt lias been the means of the publication of obscene details in the American papers in repaid 1,, (he trial of Millionaire Thaw for Hie murder of Millionaire White. \\'e retail this already welllead news-item in order to remark I hat a very large sectin of the public, any public, absolutely rejoice over 1,,,,, i'il'l;' details. Some people are morbidly constituted. Tlie,v can'l help luxuriating in filth. al „u t is u | ||x !. u'y ''"'l tliey arc gladly helped to by mo-! Courts. Kvery judge of fh'e .■supreme Court of .Yew Zealand iias at <>"" time or anolhcr remarked the Icariul laseinatioii , w . (v eases have t ," v Tin. chief justice has or''"mi ill i " mi| i»n'> cillery at the 8,1pteiue Court to be cleared, or has at , "* listeners lo with. ur:nv.

Hie J^ tk M ■ r " o| '," r " IJI 10ll '~ a "'-' ' IM the. same thing, but still the ghoulish I'"' " public revel iu "hustli)i"ss. The scene of a. murder'or anv othci crime lias an intense fa.-einalinii S 'T a splash of blood will attiact morbid admirers. The other 'lav in WelJingfchildren and grown lips waited outside the morgue while t; ,, \""l'"' s t "U a girl who had been, •-hot was pro, ding, for many hours, ll "' " m, V tne me,, against uhoin flu, charge was made in cornice,ntl' Uli ' tragedy. 'lhe pnbliea|"ll 01 minute detail in very bad case. Inis ;i ollVel on niajtv Jiiin.ls. H Will be noticed after an especially awli'l crime has been perpetrated' ,l,at K a KCl ' l< '' S of crime of a similar ■-"I'l. The original case has had (he elleet ot upsetting ti,,, mind of initial ill ally morbid people prone (~ crime. ' -V crime or tl,e publication ~f it has a serious ~|fcct. W,. s|)l ,,| ; , tlf course, of great crimes agiiMist life. ! s to avoid publicity, and, ■ H would be hurtful, bui'atroc. "'! nl!l11 ' 111 0,1 '• opinion, and we be--111,1 e in the opinion of most I't'jilll Jl |)I(, papers in New Zealand, U v oaled out of coiisiderntioii for the people who aIV 1 liable to be <iullucirce ( 'l cnminallv.