FORCING COLONIES ON JOHN BULL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 60, 29 February 1908, Page 3

FORCING COLONIES ON JOHN BULL.

SOiXETIJIES lli;s ukKX A VERY UXWUAI.M; ukaiuuoi. It is surprising hov. much of Jolm Hulls vast Empire ha- been literally toned uu him a?.«iu?l his will—how much of it hi- has retrivi.il with grumbling proto-i- instead i;i beam thau\s.

Singapore i-? lar «m-l avwv .lulni'- m<'-< wlued in iljr lanliesl lici-al. It hat Ix'eu lalleii a Cilnaltar and a Li\erpool eomUim-il. ami it" has given tin' l>i iii-li the un*|U(Miou<'>l dominance ot tl»e Maiav SiraiN.

iu ."Singapore. v\lnVh i- m-»u ,r uuguiiU-eut port, whh ininuhoi.il.it* warehouse-* iiih-d with pi i< tik'i-eluu«U-e, aii'l a l'*jr haihour crowded with shipping. wa- a -wampy i>laliil. which uolnmlv thought "1 any value. XoIkhlv. that i-. except Sir Stamford KatTle>. a brilliant Colonial Coventor, who had loiced way to the front hy -?ln*er merit.

ii.tllie-. Willi uii.-itiii- nt-liuei, -an WjlJl UK' V'A l ill \ l-1.1 it , lit: was al liiv iuue ui Jii'iicuoleJi, JU SumaU.i. .1 ii'l, litrougn lii- m* -ligation, Singapuic u,i> bought Irom thy Malayan .>uu.<n oi joli <r ioi oOU. ibis wai altogetner I'm vuierpr.*ing a "tleui ' iu pt>-a«c -toiM John iiull —Uf lila C'OU'riimeiil i;f l lit- tjay.

.Sir Stamford Uall'lt- wa> praclifa'ly recalled in disgrace. and the (.toverumeni would have handed Singapore Uu-k u> the Sultan had they daied. But public upiuiou compelled tie-m to keep it. llow many million* the island is worth now nobody could aa\. 1 be whole ot the * trails Settlement* were practically loued on Joiui liuil. Ik didnt want to be i«»ihemi witii the Jdajays or their island-. Bui iii- ciHeiprisUlg eOlls went out there ami lyok jJUsaeaalult on llK'ir own .immut. Vac taigualimau, Sir Jame- Biuoke, had bm»*eii made Kajan ui Sarawak, a jlaliy Stale, without waiting to ask periui*»ijii iruni the Home authorities; and wlu-n be requested to be iuki'U. along -wiili nis kingdom, unuer the protection oj the i»rm>h nag, Im re({Ucatr was acceded io oniv in tin- ino.i grudging spirit. •Joan didn't have any notion of taking (.•iuialtar lor luwseit. A wonderful vjji of hie. named Admiral Sir tieorge Kooke, returning nonie from a more or less unaucceaaiui cruise, made a sudden, unexpected awoop oil tlie rock on hi? own j account, and took it from a weak Spanish garrison before they knew that he was really there, a" to say. At Ural John Bull growled and didn't see whil good the key oi the Mediterumeau was going to be to hiin. I John Bull personally—always, of ! course, aa typified by bis (Jovernment bad very little to do with, the founding of hi* Indian Empire, lu the early days Ik.- declined to send otbcial representatives to India, but allowed a body o: private merchants, who banded theuiHdve-> together a-> the pany, to try their luck in the A-iatie Kmpire. At tirst the company wvre saliatied with strips of land on which to build their factories and warehouses. and leave tu trade witii the natives. It wa» the French 1 ».ov€ruin«'ni w,m tiiet aimed at a European Indian Empire, and aent two l»nili;itK adventurers, Oupleix and Lully, to see i! they could wiu it. Then it wu* that the company began to light, not al tirst with any i'kra of making conquests, but simply to save themselves from being swept into ! the sea by their French rival*. ; Afteruard*, however, thev, began iu | wonder if they couldn't turn the iabk»-i by turniug the French out, and wars i "with the Hindoo rajah- followed, -lohn wa-n't U k >t when news readied him thai ouh of his wandering sonhad laid the foundations of the British Empire in India by winning the battle <»f IMassey. Ihe old jjtMUlenum sa«* a vi-iim of more responsibility for him. and grumbled, as u-ual. The tir-t great i-omjuests in India were mad* l by -oMiors who were. >triet ly speaking, not -lohn BulIV at all. Tii y were made by ta-ofip< enli-ted and paid l>v the company and it was ".lohn pany." a- the s+»|>oy«< railed it. which gave Ciivt* hi- tirst emnmi—i«»u. The company ruled iu India for a hundred years before the British (.ovemmen'. took over the ta-k. The Cbarteijed Coinpain forced a tract of Afrit*,i on John Bui!. Me ha J j to grab it himself. au<! nmiM have [looked on wioh calm indiliVs in e while

va-t tract- <lB South Africa were lii'iii,' ainil'NCi! In- till' I eniun- .inil the lioe.s.

But the Chartered . with t ivl liluxle- a- it- soti. niiiilc wiir mi J./ Wngttla. ami completed Mat.ib,-IdmJ »n-t checked tli<* liorr and fiermun \-unHad Johiii not hi-* -on- in check

and frouiiad oil them when thi-y wanted ■ to lie tin' Ceniian Kcnpiro in Sjiuh-tVi'-t Africa would probably never hart' been founded. because ilui part of the world won id have be •>! painted Uriti-h Red before tin- -llbje.:«if the Kaiser got near it. | John Hull certainly grabbed Canada and Australia on hi* own initiative. Hut fcis to New Zraland. it is not owing to J|>li]i bini-el; that "Cod's own country ' l<t'igug, to him to-day. Giptain Cook paid hi, tii—t vi-il ;o the island in i. 7 ti!'—the same vear. bv the, way. which -aw Wolfe take Quebec, liu.t lor generation? John Bull would kive nothing to do with it. It was left alone for any nation who fancied it to t jke it. As late as 1814 ob-tiuate "J. li." as good ai told the missionaries who went to Xew Zealand t<< trv to convert th n Maoris that the ri-k 'they ran by -i I doing ua- entirely their own concern, f and he wouldn't I* re-ponsiblc. for what happened to theru. Later on the -New ii Zealand bind Company was formed to take the first step, towards ehangin.' the beautiful i-lands into a Uritisk eolonv. John Bull was quite annoyed. He did not want Xew Zealand. He did evervhe could—that i-, the Home (io'v ernment of the day dkl-to the new company and throw obs t ,ci,. s in its way. It was not until eightv vears affr its discovery by Captain Cook that Join gave a -ulky consent to his Hag Ih-ut tormally run up over \ew Zealau.L " tveu then he only consented be, ;1 „,.. d>e wa- informed that if he didn't the white -ettlers would mak( , , :n _ plea-ant. A little more delav on his part, and the t-'rench Ha" would w-i p.—il.lv now i„' floating "v.-r WVlliii -'- '!' n :lnii ;l freueli Cm-i-rnnr lie -ittiii" ! do',', ' iUe " K "'- " Se;j. f | '! i- •01 ii- ly .lohn liuir- own i ,„'» I H"'t ii... wi,.,i t o, ,i„. i.|. lM<l ,s ■ r"'.' 1 ' J: l«'l bl'loil- I f .ii N " U '"""••■< a,,, i„ w i Til r'tt" 1,111 I " " rei " l,l wt it ivin..

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