Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1892. CZAR AND KAISER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4136, 11 June 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1892. CZAR AND KAISER.

Being tub extended this of the Wmbarapa Dauy, with whioh it is

Meetings between monarohs are nothing new. We refer, of course, to those official meetings which are chronicled' from one end of the world to the other, and looked upon by simple folk as the harbingers of tremendous changes in the balance of power. As to the number of meetings which actually take place be-, tween reigning sovereigns' who are on privately cordial terms, we have our own ideas, We rather fanoy that when " His Majesty is oonfined to the palace through severe but not dangerous indieposiiion, which will compel him to cancel his engagements for this week," the Majesty referred to has cut across the frontier by special train, with a man-servant and a supply of light literature, to have a chat with the neighbouring potentate, " I am ill at Neuilly," said Louis Philippe with a grin, as he sat in a room in Downing Street discussing the unpopular Spanish marriage. Still, it must be admitted that oven emperors and kings are entitled to an occasional holiday and a few private friendships; < and the only meetings between these personages which ban by possibility concern the public are those which are elaborately arranged. for the public's special edification, We remember how we used to be impressed, in the days of our imaginative youth, by the gorgeous pictures of these functions in the Illustrated London News. Two mighty rulers were embracing each other; each was carefully clad in a' uniform representing a combatant officer in. the service of the other. The staff of each monarch was composed of elegant gentlemen, grouped in sympathetic attitudes, and Wearing the beautiful, bland fluyle which the artist keeps for production on Buoh occasions.

These meetings still take place, and no doubt the youth of this generation can be counted on to derive the same impression from the pictures—" See how these sovereigns love one another!" Alas, the cold world of thinking adults has learnt to laugh at the pretence of the thing, though it may still admire the pageant, The latest epmplo of the impotence p'f these formal 'displays of friendship to make anyone believeanything, is to be found in the meeting which took; place- the pjiher day between the Cas? of all the Bussias and the Emperor of Germany. It has been reserved for the journal. ist& of Europe to express in brutally plain language the explosion of the old-fashioned noliontbat such a meeting has any significance whatever. We are gravely told by bable that "No importance is attached by the press to the meeting I" Of coursenot. The continental kiss whiolr doubtless passed between the Czar and the Kaiser is no guarantee that the Czar will not next week mass his troops on the frontier, or that the Kaiser will not make a bellicose speech at a quet. „ : And yet we do learn something, leven if it bet'ot precisely teaoh-

ing ace excepted to take to heart I .'! learn that! : the Czar is willing at this .moment to seem friepdly j all- round. - for while he rushes into: the arms of his brother of 'Germany, he seiida a Grand Duke of the Russian blood-royal to France, primed with oivil assurances. The alliance between Buesia and France is almost among the traditions of later European politics, while thamntual antagonism of Russia and Germany is equally a matter of course, We conceive, then, that while no change has taken place in jibe real sentiments of these various'powers, the present environment of each renders it expedient that international oivilities should find some expression, Kussia; i!;;honeyi.comhed .with disaffection and harrassed with famine; Germany feels that the ■ Triple, Alliance is practically terminated by the bankruptcy of Italy; and ; France -well, the only thing France really wants .at present* is possession of Alsace and Lorraine; and Germany ft too strong to quarrel with, Hence these various amenities. The Russophile French cannot be angry with the Czar for meeting the' KaJßer, Bino9 he sends an assurance of good-will to themselves ; at the same time, Every one is satisfied; and the Czar goes back to Copenhagen to smoke a cigarette in peace and quietness with his•'■ inoffensive marriage-conneotions. He goes back, however," with entirely new scenery and appointments," that is to say; he will appear in the novel character of .an Admiral of the German Fleet, : It is the last touch of absurdity. We are sure that the appearance of the Emperor of Eussia in this role,will be "positively for this occasion only," and we should think he will give the uniform to bis children for " dressing ..■„.•» ■■•■■■.

The moral of this, public posing is unquestionably this, that the Czar is known to bB the arbiter of peace or War just now. Pending the re-con-station of an alliance against Russia, offensive and defensive, on the Port of,the Great Powers, it.ifdesir-i able to receiyeand reciprocate Russian courtesies, Pending its opportunity of regaining from' Germany the provinces of the Khine, it is desiiableior France to realise that' its strength is to sit still, And pending much more authoritative assurances of peace than these, .it is" desirable that every. European power should look after Hb munitions of war; for the arbiters of men's liyes are as changeable as they, are civil j and pommer—the Euro-1 pean war season-is at hand.

The death is announced in Melbourne of Mr Chapman, who under the name of "Augur," was until recently sporting editor of the Australasian.

! Canon Chalmers, of Melbourne, has been elected Bishop of Goulbuurn. The Wanganui Chronicle of Thursday aaya:—From the Hospital we learn that Mr A. E. Bawson, who was thrown from his horse on Tuesday, and is suffering from concussion of the brain, recovered consciousness yesterday and is progressing as well as can be expected. One pound reward is offered for the recovery of a lady's gold brooch, supposed to have been lost between the Theatre Royal and the Club Hotel corner,'

It is not generally known that the late Mr Macarthur declined a seat iu the Atkinson Administration,'

A social olub is to be formed inOhrißtchurch for the mutual improvement and recreation of boys whqhave left school, It is to be'bailed the Gordon Home, and is to be strictly undenominational. S There is a clergyman in New Mexico who struggles along under, the name of the Kev. Innocent Woli. A horse covor is advortised as found by Mr Davenport, oftheManaia. ; A contemporary says:—Those who are supposed to have the ear of the Gc-< vernment state that there will without doubt be a dissolution this session,' The Eketahuna murder trial common" ces on Monday, The Hon, T. Fergus has definitely determined not to Beek reflection to the I next Parliament. ~ The Metropolitan Show in connection with the Chriatchurch Agricultural and Aaatural Association is to be hold on the 10th and Uth of November.

The Egniont Settler states that, owing eo the friction between the Wairaate j Plains district and Jdaivera, ah-effort is being made to constitute the Waimate Plains into a new County, ]' In his speech at Norman by Mr G. Hutchison, M.H.R., said General Booth was a great man, a greater man even than Sir fiobert Stout. Tho people laughed.

The Conference of County Councils in Auckland made the very pertinent sugration that Land Boards should be elected by the County Uounoi'i in each land district,

From the report of the proceedings at the County Council Conference at Auckland, laid on the table at the last meeting of the Wairarapa North County Couuoil, we learn that the following resolution wss passed:-" That in the interest of economy and efficient local government it is highly desirable that the number of local governing bodies should be reduced as speedily as possible,"

A beautiful lunar rainbow waa observed to the west of Masterton about sis o'clock last evening. The Salvation Army waß serenading the Masterton Borough Council Chambers the other evening, A visitor pre" sent from New South Wales was asked, "Do you have music like this over your side? "We do," was the reply, " this kind of music appears to be universal I"

The Press says that a Pioton resident has been oharged the sum of one shilling for bringing with him by rail from Blenhoim three medium sized pumpkins, of the .value of one shilling and sixpence. l It adds, "It is absurd that, while the regulations allow passengers U2lba of personal luggage, persons making frequent use of the line to do the-r shopping cannot, according to the Commissioners' ruling, : bring home their purchaseswith themwitfjoutpaying freight.''

Efforts are, we understand, to be made to upset the decisions' of the Pahiatua Licensing Benoh, on the grounds that one of the Commissioners is interested in the Wairarapa Farmers' Co, Operative Association, which has %, wholesale license, and another is engaged by the Government. It is - stated that Mr Skerrett, of Wellington, has been retained by those interested,

Messrs Lowes and lorns announce through our advertising columns a sale of fruit trees, flowering shrubs, gooseberries, currants, rhubarb, roots, etc., from the nursery of Mr John Hale, Nelson. The sale takes place on Saturday, tho 18th instant, at 2 o'clock,

The following conversation was. overheard in the atrf jt tlie other Say,' but'fpr obvious reason/wii shall omit the name of one of the psrtjeßj the other was th« well knowp draper, Mr L, j, Hoopei\ M> Spot Cash: ' 1b it true Mr Hooper that you intend opening theelwp next your drapery es» tabb'sbment as ,•» grooety and provision warehouse? Mr D.J. t " That is so, Mr; Cash, and in about a week I shall be able to quote to you the lowest pricos .for al kinds of general merchandise," Mr Spot Cash; " Good I I suppose you will keep only good goods and sell as cheap as anyone else ? "Mr L, J.:" You bet I The beit and nothing but the best, and every artiolo at bed rock pricos I Those arc the foundation atones upon which weintend to ereot our business," Mr Spot Cash: "Your hand my boy, My account with so-and-so's worth three pounds a weok, and I pay cash, I am not satisfied lately. I fancy Ipay more than I should do, So directly you open your Mißiness look upon me "as a regular cus tomor"—A»vt