THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10254, 2 June 1911, Page 4

THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP.

In 1894 Victor Hugo wrote: "A day will come wlien a cannonHbaJl will be exhibited in.public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people will be amazed that such a tiling could ever have been. A day ■wall come when these two immense groups, the United States of America a,nd the United States of Europe, will 'be seen placed in the presence of each other, extending the hand: of fellowship across the ocean, exchanging their produce, their industries, their arts, their genius, cleaning the earth, peopling the desert, improving creation under the eye of the Creator, and uniting, for the good of all, these two irresistible and infinite powers, the fraternity of men and the power of God." No one since has given tlhis picture of the future more graphically than Hugo, says "Collier's Weekly," but wilier© one actually believed it then, thousands believe it now.

special window display of New Zealand .butter. From tMs very day the price of our butter increased, whilst the Danish article declined. If the standard price of New Zealand butter is raised only one -shilling per hundredweight, it means an increase to tike dairy farmers of £20,000 per annum. The moral is obvious. It pays large enterprises as well as small to advertise.