ENGLAND'S CLAIMS IN THE PACIFIC.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2066, 3 October 1885, Page 2

ENGLAND'S CLAIMS IN THE PACIFIC.

At a Ministerial bamjnet at Albany iccently, the Attorney Geueral and late acting t'ri'mier A New South Wales dehveied a statesmanlike address, from which we make the following extract: — Mi l)all<>y s.ud .—"They were aware tint the Government with which he wm connected was unable to give its approval tn .my policy that was based upon pretensions to the exclusive Buti«h occupation of .ill the temtoiy m the South Seai ; nay, more, that they telt confident that any such i> ihey was unjust, unwise, and practically imp issible. Unjust, because the Empire nf which th»y weie members had no title whatever to uphold it, .md, as they knew, had not the -heht-st intention of averting it. ITn\\im>, bj, ausc if the title was existing, they hid not tht means of carrying out the policy ; and impossible, becatibO the gnat civilised powers of the world, as they now knew beyond all doubt, would not for a moment h.ive allowed our pretensions to 1)> made without immediate eh ille.ige. When on these pounds he cnvfiiliy <ib->t uncd from any State action whit!) would seem to countenance these ideas and dangerous pretension*, he w«is <i--siilod with a itfiim of censure, which he patiently bore. Ho was charged with tincklmg to tlie halting, vacillating, and feeble policy <>f tho Imperial Government, with seeking puiMin.il distinction"! by the sunendei of the nght> of the Australian colonies, ,md with sacuhcint: tho future of hiscountiy to the exigencies of statesmen who wore dishononrinc* the Empire by thru unpatuitic irresolution. (Hear, he ir ) He found to his amazement that he was ,i State cumin il, when he conceived Inmsi'lf to be a patriot ; and that ho was degrading tlie colonies w hen he thought he was taking a sagacious and impartial view of a question of .sovereign interest. He wm accused of loweiing the pre«ttge of Englishmen by a craven terror of the power of Gonnany. This w.is an indictment containing charges of sufficient gravity to justify tlie fullest answer, A portion of tint answer he had given by his public conduct muco the charge was made. He had 1 n r-onally gained (except, he hoped, in the esteem and confidence of wise a»-i good men) no honor, title, or reward for the «civics which he endeavoured to render to the country. (Cheei-) He did not need to tell them tint he could not be influenced by any such degrading considerations. (Loud eheeis ) Whon he was charged with a w uit of the mtional pnde of Englishmen in nuking coinphinentaiy speeches about tho advantages of Germ in settlements in our neighbourhood, he smiled at the remembrance th.it we owed the very name of Englishmen to our German ancestors, who brought it to us from their England in the Biltic, wheie, fourteen centuries before tlie biith of the modern British Jingo, these Teutonic tiibes bore the name of Englishmen. (Hear, hear,) But if this were not so. and if tho Germans were not of all peiiplp., m the woild tlie most intimately identified w ith our material and intellectual piogu'ss in these colonies, the time had pissed away in which we could dare to do w hat it was suggested that, as a matter of piofonnd Stite policy, we should do. Times hid now changed, and with their change had bi ought new duties, higher responsibilities, and, thank (rod! wider and richer blessings to us and all the world. The peoples of the world were being brought together in stronger bonds, and closer alliances of friendship and interest. It w.i-« no longer a question of the opinions of statesmen, °r the differences of diploinat'sts, or the ambition of kings— it was a question for the people of tho wot Id, who saw in tlie fnenddhip and co operation of tho nations the only in Mils of universal enlightenment and the diifiision of all the blessings of civilisation. If our title to monopolise all the teiutory m tins great part of the world weie unqiie-.hon.ibli>, it would be, in the interests of hum mity, the duty of htatemen to defeat it. Immense «« was the E l^lish power of colonisation, it was utteily unequal to the woik that had to be done in this portion of the world. Powerful as we weie in numbei, in enterprise, in weilth, in all the means, of transforming those multitudinous islands into homes of tin n ing colonist-, we were unequal to the hboui. Thevoik to bo done upon this continent was of itself enough foi us for centimes. To dissipate our efforts with the object of hhntting out groat civilised nations with teeming populations, indnstiious, law abiding and cultured, seeking new homes and new centies of uimois.il blessings, would be to cover oui selves with shame. (Cheers.) It was not in Any way a question of protecting ouisehe — of n itional solf defence •igiin«t invasion. If it was to be a question of ultimate lmpem! sunicimcy in these seas, wlki could for a m uncut doubt that this would not hn attained naturally, inevitihlv, completely and nobly except by the concentration of om efforts upon the fullest development of our possessed resomces. Our greatest means of defence would Lm found in tho gMiorositv of our treatment of other nationalities. These were the views to which he had more than once given ex»i es>ion in connection with certain claims to oui exclusive possession of territory in these sci'. He believed that such claims had no foundation whatever m right— that if they had, thoir asset turn would be fatal to peace, injurious to the interest of humanity, and, as a consequence, full of hami to ourselves.''

It is a standing joke with Bret Harte and liis friends that the last lime he went to (Glasgow, where he is supposed to have icsido 1 as consul for se\eial yeais, he in-miji-irerl what place it was when the tram aruved. Thk llv\ T. De Witt Talmape, thinks ho has discoNOH'd a point in fa\our of eiematiosi in the latter clause of the HiUieil to\t, "Dust to du-,t, ashes to allies." JIo says — " Tli.it is incineiation. Did you e\ ci see that point before?" I uexerdid. I really thiuk that resurrection is easier after incineration thau after inhumation. Eakth rEMrtRATCRts— The Times sajs the (icimau Government is having a d( tp shaft sunk near Schladebach, with tin 1 object especially of obtaining trustwoithy dit.i coneetning the rate of in* i iea«e of the eaith's temperature towards the intci ior. At the beginning of this \eir the shaft had reached the depth of l.'{ ( ) 2 metres, which is believed to be the lowest yet leached. The temperatuie at .successive stages is ascertained by a special thermometer, the principle of conduction hemg that as the heat increases the meicuiy will expand so as to flow over the lip of tin open tube. Tn nth is a stoiy of a man who was resohed on suicide. He took poison, then hung himself over a cliff wnere, if he was not killed by falling if the scaffold gave way, he would die of di owning. Then to make things sure he tried to shoot himself. Unfoitunatcly the bullet cut the rope, the water bioke his fall and on on ti)inu to drown himself the sea water acted .is an antidote to the poisou, and tlif* tide, going 01 1, left him stiauded and alive, unpoihoned, unshot, unhung, uudiowned ,md unkilled by the fall. Til*, case of the Hon. Violet LaneI Fok, d.iuglitei of a noble English family, agunst Mr Edward Rowdon, .J P., Ims excited si good deal of amusement in London. Mr Rowdon fell iv lo\e, appaiently, with the lady, and though iiho lepiilsed him repeatedly, he followed her e\ cry where, wrote absurd lose-lcttcis to her, and finally dropped on his knees in a public thoroughfare and begged her to many him. Mr Rowdon was then sent to prison, and aftenvaids put under bonds to keep the peace and to lespect the Hon. lolet Lane Fox's piejudiees. Whit is most singular in this case is that Mr Rowdon has always seemed to be a, man of brains and good sense. M \.w years ago Mr (now Sir William) Fox had liis attention attracted in the Oeneial Assembly to the peculiar habit Mr (now Sir John) Hall had of raising himself on his tiptoes at intervals, in addressing the House, when he desired to be paiticularly emphatic. Mr Fox, during the course of the debate, refening to the matter, aud expiessed his belief " that the hon. member was either extracting his ideas out of his boots, or acquired the habit tlnough craning his neck over the Canterbury Plains in an endeavor to iinJ his sheep !" You C\n Hi' Hvi'i-Y if you will stop all jour doctoring; 50ursi.ll and families with ctpenshe doctors or cure-alls that do only harm, acid use Nature's simple remedies for all >our ailments, jou will be well and happy and save great expense The q eatcst remedy for this, the freat, wise, and good will tell you, is Am. Co's Hop U.tura,