THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911. ADIEU!—1911.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911. ADIEU!—I9II.

la a lew short hours the travelled along the thca-ny iroad whklh' leads toi the inevitable Beyond wii' 1 ' have paßßedl aniothjeir mtie-stone in the journey. The year-of•• oix Lord 1911, y/HHh Jte tragedies and its pleasures, (its successes and l Us- disiappcanitmenitis, will have passed into th© rsolimis of history'. A new era in the catfendan' of the M-oaid w¥J : have been reached, arid ; Jthe prospective wiil be redoJJenit of as the retrospective may ib© of disappointtanent and regret. Tlie oi:e great, outstanding featae erf miuudanerexistence . ia the .mystery s/unrounding the future. The past we can soirvey at our leisure—the future is obscured. :by an) lall-wise Providlanioe. It is weH, perhaps, t<hat at. -this ©sa*an. ome should take (a retrospective glance at tlite incident's am! the national con»trivance which, go 'to make history, and at the evenibs in, private life wMdh have tended'-to maror ibrdglrtem existence. They inlay serve tvs a giuiildiing star to tine traveler cin! the uncertain high-way of He. 'lh© year 1911, (Mc© liits- imimedliat©' .predeceFsors, 3ials /been- full of imteinatiomiJ perplexities. Thfene have been wars and Tuatuouirs of wku'-s, iaidu-atrialk d&sturhantaes and political nnrejst.. The dark cloud Mhich 'hung for monthte over the European countries, involving Great) Britlain., Fnlanoa and Germany, has! happily ibeen dispersed, amdi di'jTbmacy Qias temporarffly triumphed. Hardly had' the oriels' over the. Moroccan territory passed, however, .than the emib-roglio .between Italy ajwl Turkey cccaniped, and ho&ti'litdie9 wea<e comanenced! oil resjiect' to Tripoli, whichi have every appearance of (being pa-otractted. Tine revolt in Clhiilna, hasi pixidiieed resaiilts in. the Easterti world whiilh will bo reacliing in theiu* effects. Aad now, tin tlie dying hloius «f yeaii', the peace of Europe is threatened by tilie orfsis iiD Per&la. llliere Ikvs been suffkiient initeniaitieaial' uoirest duiing; tilie period untfer .review to satisfy thte most -voiacibus \A - aa - -dogs. And the end as not yet. So far ns. the British 'Dominions are concerned, the year 1911 wiStf-live m history as one re~ mair-kable for poltitical' intrigue and coavstiltutional' revoiutaoli. The dazzIcaiig tfilliiance of the fwomtiofli u\ Louden, and 1 of the Durbar ut Delhi, aro socliaT ciiiTumistaaices ..that pale ruito before the p;.iTticaJ! wtruggto which has eulminated in the temporary hiuir.llliii.tiou.- tf tlhat isedtioai of tto Briti'sh Parlaameait aa'ouiud whi'cQi traditions of th© Nation are insuperably bound, and in' the domination of thle> gj'eat natolojial' iES'UeB by. a liaaidful of designing Oonnhionei's. What 1 th© result of this minbiritytriumph over conatituHaonal right ; will be, onflfer the fuitiua-e caai is: matter for fiihaer© congratai'lation. that advantage ha® not been taken of the imtteaHal disruption, in Britain, to compel hiep to defend! her shores!. Iti isi aSso jkßeasdjig to note that the indiustrial upheaval which threatejied tibia etomimerce of th© Empire has not developed to those aOlarmfilng pros-'p'ortion'-s which at one period of th© 'year seemed! inevitahte. So far as tlie ovenseaia possesisions concerto. '©d, the 'two most striking incidents ■have 'been ithe overthrow of thie Laiv

rier Government ita donatio., whMi Lad 6>uaTomnded itseK vAiith tihe most vicious elemental arising from lon'goontimued power l , oaid (tUiie defeat of the Ward Ckwernoiieiniti m .New Zealanidl, <the autocracy of which had become as violent as its administration was deifecthe. Out of itibese polit'oi'al' arises i& uis hoped that farms of progressive government will evClve wlbiidß wilß make ior the permaneii't 1 wteSlfaire of both, of tihe young Dominions'. BVom & m&teriaii> podlmt of view, 'New Zealand), in oomtmoin' with other exporting couwltries, has had no cause for serious compLaint either <att /the values l of imiarketafole prodkidts or itihe proportions ctf ifche outputs At" the present moment the outlook is. anot as encouraging as it be. l!he season (has mot beeai good,- and the markets are somewhat depressed. TWis notwLtilitstanddiig,

ilfaare is not t'he slightest ground for pe£fc ( :masm. The resources- of this country' ore so varied, the industry of the people so marked, and the potentialitiesl of tine Dwnmiiion bo encrmouis tlhat tnlot even' temporairiily-de--pressed markets clan create a finondfo.ll panic or serious apprehension concomiig the future. I'he year "wibicflii is now ebbing out has produced m-.-.qy changes m this, part' of tihe woafid. Men and women who have so&n flue heat and buirden of the pionettring days ore no ffbiagcr with us. The f/ignlt of many a Jiome Jias been', dimmed by iscckiross . and . ( be- I reavement. Tihe waeel 1 of fortune has j tmnned ipgafim-st some; others /have I made Steady progress up tihe tortu-1 oius Mil of prospen.ty. "Change and decay in allf arouind" we have Keen, and yet (there iremaiiinis with most every oni? of us. an : abiding confidence in. the future; a Ihope for the realisation) of better and brighter dlays; a cheerful acceptance of tthe individual responisihdiM/ties of Mfe;-. a growing ] appreciation of the sublime attiriSbutes of good! eitizetnislhip; a deep' syniipotiby and affection' for those ih ' dijstiress, and a dearly-defined determination! to make itfoe transitory existence om iM& tere&tiriaJ 1 epliare a.s cheerful and l as profitable a® owr individual' eiwironments- and opportunities, wall permit. It i>s hardly necessary, to say tfhat vows and promiise* hiave r 'ii<ii) tM been, regsufdied as sacred. Stift, we' mi^lit'ifaaai' hope that the ifutuire Avail! be. approached wi"^h,.'. greater; . confiden/oe and faJlth than have chaa-aoter-ised' tlhe past. Laife, at the best, is.' but a dream. It is as uoicertaioi l as) a aright-main?. Those who aiie filled wrtfr th« prida of health and wealth to-day may 'be aiumbered with the vdictims ctf the year to come. To the oldetet iaihahcl'Jant it wiW seem but a day since he was' trudging his way to isdiocfl. Was it Scotland's bard wtoo wrote—

"W© twia have climbed' the mownt<ak& top, and culled the Wbon*in' hither;' It only seems like-yiisterday, that we were iboy& fch'gither"? IH is when, one oantemplatea th>a exceeding brevity of existence that he appreciates the r'esponsihilit'iiep of every, moment of life. And it w oiily by a survey of the/ past that he realises; the depth of meaning in this words uttered by,,.' Cecil! Rhodes- when h© was crossing th© divide— "So much attempted; so little dome!" It is with ia sinc<ere delsir© that our readers wiM'>be able to view the futvum 'With; an equanimity born' of a sense of true eitiaeaiship that we wish them on© anil aU, "A BRIGHT AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!"-