TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2016, 27 February 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. DUNEDIN, yesterday. The dispute between the Coal Miners’ Union of Workers and the Taratu Railway and Coal Company, which was to have been heard by tlie Conciliation Board this week, has now been referred direct to the Arbitration Court. The quarterly criminal sitings of the Supreme Court were concluded yesterday. Jane Dunsmuir, .1/ years of age, charged with stealing a valuable brooch, was found not guilty. Frederick St. Clair Sinclair, who was jointly charged with the girl for the offence, having pleaded o-uilty last week to the charge, was admitted to probation for twelve months, conditional on his paying certain costs and abstaining from liquor during that time. Nicolas Tressider, Wm. H. Raynor, and H. Foote, for breaking and entering a store on Victoria wharf recently, were also admitted to proba.tioii, being first offenders. It was made a condition of their probation that they must pay the costs of the prosecution and other costs, about A® in all, and abstain from drinking intoxicants for a year. Leo Sun was charged with selling pakapoo tickets in a Chinese lottery. This accused was before the Court at the criminal sittings in November tor the same offence, and the jury disagreed. Yesterday’s jury, after an hour’s retirement, found him .guilty of tlio minor offence of assisting m a lottery, and he was fined £IOO for a similar offence in 1901. MARTON, yesterday. Burglars entered J. McEldowncy’s shop at Marton last night. Goods to the value of £SO were stolen, the thieves gained entrance by a top storey window at the back of the. shop and got into the main shop by sliding down the pillars. The front and back doors were left open, and a parcel of goods left behind. It is thought the burglars were disturbed. They carried a ladder from the Park to gain admission. WELLINGTON, yesterday. Tlie Labor party will run a ticket for the municipal elections. The chief planks of the platform will be municipal markets for meat, fruit vegetables .and fish, municipal abattoirs, sterilising the city milk supply, and municipal housing of workers. The escaped prisoners Burke and Driscoll were recaptured at 4.81) tin= morning on the steamer Wakanui lying at Taranaki street wharf. She ■was timed to leave for London <-t an early hour, and detectives and warders searched her before leaving, finding tho prisoners hiding behind the boiler The men were brought before the Court and Driscoll was sentenced to six months imprisonment and Burke to three. OAMARU, yesterday. The annual meeting of the Oamaru Harbor Board was liekl to-day. lh principal business was. tlie appoint meat of a chairman, vice Mr. J. »• Holmes, who is leaving tlio district. Mr. Holmes has been for 22 years a member of the Board, and chairman since 1905. Mr. George Brownlie, an old member, w«xsj appointed* DUNEDIN, yesterday. Tlie dispute between the Goal Miners’ Union of Workers and tlie Taratu Railway and Coal Company, which was to have been heard by the Conciliation Board this week, has now been reforred direct to the Arbitration Court,

NATIVE LAND COMMISSION. NAPIER, Inst night. Tho Native Lands Commission rosumed its sittings to-dny. Tho examination was chiefly with regard to tho Waiinarama, Wnipuka, mid Oknihau blocks. Sovoral of tho natives interested stated that they wished to retain their interests in thoso blocks and did not desire that they should ho leased. Other natives were quite willing to lease. Evidonco ns to tlie capital value and leasing value of the Waimarama block was called, two or three witnesses estimating tho capital value at, £7 per acre, based on tlio prices at present, ruling for wool and stock; tho lousing vnluo for a 21 yenrs’ lease was put at 5s to 5s 6d per acre,' as lessees would roquiro capital to develop tlio land and there was no compensation for improvements. Tho hearing will bo continued to-morrow.

AN ILL-FATED CREW. AUCKLAND, last night'. Advices recoived state that, the Government steamer Rnnnndi lias returned to Suva after an unsuccessful search for tho survivors of tho wreck of tho schooner Cygnot. A SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, last night, A middle-aged man named Joseph Albert) James, in the employ of John Burns and Co., merchants, committed suicide at Devon port last evening by taking carbolic acid. Tho deceased, who is said to have boon despondent of late, left a note addressed to his wifo, which read ns follows:—“Kate, wo nro as ever. I have to go first. Will meet you in the sweet by and bye. Your old Joe.”

A FIRE. INVERCARGILL, last night. A firo occurred to-day in premises occupied by tlie Southland Bread Co. (late G. T. Smytlie and Co.) Tho fire brigade were promptly on the scene and prevented an extensive conflagration. Tlio largo bake room was completely gutted, and a valuable plant badly damaged. Tho small bread room was gutted, and the cart shelter obliterated. Tho damage is estimated at £SOO. The insurances are: Machinery £lO2l, gas engine and room £154, stock £250, building £IOOO, affin New Zealand Insurance Office, the South British holding a re-insurance of £SOO. AN APPEAL BOARD. "WELLINGTON, last niglit. An election for the return of n North Island member on tho postal Appeal Board, resulted in the election of A. F. Wimsett, Wellington, wlio polled 839 votes against 32S polled by F. Morton, Auckland.

SUPREME COURT. WELLINGTON, last night. Charles Crean, who had pioaded guilty to a charge of forging an order for wages on the Railway Department, was bound over to he (f good behaviour and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. In the Supreme Court Beatrice Milford was ordered to come uo fer sentence when called upon m a charge of making a false declaratu n to the registrar of births. l'l:e woman had a family of 14 children, nine under 12, and had made 'lalse declaration in regard to her last child, which was illegitimate. The evidence showed she had to work for her living and had a hard struggle to support her family. v Robert McCarthy and Stephen Maxwell, recent, escapees from gaol, were sentenced, Maxwell to twelve months’ additional to that bo was serving. McCarthy was sentenced to two years, and declared to bo an habitual criminal.

AUCKLAND DOCK. ACCIDENT. CLAIMS TOTAL £21,224. Press Association. AUCKLAND, last niglit. Claims totalling £21,224 have been lodged against the Auckland Harbor Board in connection with the Calliope dock accident when docking the Mamari. These include £15,000 by the Shaw, Savill Coy. for damages to the Mamari and for demurrage. LACK OF REVERENCE. (By Tohunga, in N.Z. Herald.) There can’t be very much doubt about tlie colonial lack of reverence. It is like snakes in Ireland: there isn’t any. And yet we come of a reverential people, and one which if it has a weakness is just a little bit too fond of taking off its bat to accepted custom and established authority. There must be some reason for the change, and possibly if we found the reason we might get oil the track of the remedy.

For lack of reverence is a mistake. The world lias become human and civilised becauso from age to age and from generation to generation the slow and painful gains of human experience have been preserved, becauso tlio rising generation has learned the lessons taught by the passing generation, because youth has reveiv enced tlie wisdom of age. Manifestly, tlie moment we cease to we cease to learn as much as we might, for life is too short to bo always asking questions. Progress is impossible if every generation and every individual has to have bis own experience before it is convinced that fire burns and water drowns. Yet the death of reverence means the reappearance of the necessity for personal and renewed experience, means the exhaustion of human energy in exploring the roads that our fathers explored before us, and of which they left charts whereby we might avoid their painful experiences, if only we would. The wisdom of our fathers was a very real thing. The lessons they learned they had paid for by suffering of mind and body and loss of estate, and consequently they took them to heart and endeavored to order their lives accordingly. Amid many mistakes and in spite of much stumbling and failure they did manage to keep reasonably close to the line, doing so becauso tlie reverential faculty was strong within them; and even when they did act in contravention of what it was considered they ought' to do they admitted that they were doing “wrong,” and did not delude themselves with tho idea that they woro doing “right.” The young man, whatever else ho did, did not laugh at the old man. The voice of authority might temporarily be disregarded, but it was not mocked or scorned by any great number of

people. In tlio colonies, for some reason or other, things aro different. The youth of eighteen evidently believes that lie call teach a great deal to tlie hale old man of eighty, whose very existence in mental and physical sanity at that great age is proof that lie is one of Nature's wise men. Tho girl of sixteen would hardly hesitate to show her grandmother of sixty how to suck eggs. And as for instinctive faith in the old beliefs it may be roughly said that there is not enough left to go rqund. Ho far from it being considered natural to respect that which is old and to take for granted any maxim of life and conduct which has its source in antiquity, thore is a general disposition to do the reverse. That is the attitude of the colonial, whose irreverence is among the most noticeable of the qualities in which he ..differs from the man of the older lands. It may be asserted that this irreverence is good because it enables the colonial mind to adapt itself quickly and readily to new conditions, and to make the best use of the scanty means at his 'command. There is no doubt that this need for speedy adaptation is among the causes of irreverence, but it cannot be the chief cause. The colonial chops down trees some feet from the ground and leaves the stumps standing, but does not jeer at the English style of falling a tree level with the surface of the ground ; for the colonial has sense enough to see that this depends upon timber values, and that he would follow the old plan himself under the old conditions. But though he is not confused by simple and direct problems of this sort, he is undoubtedly confused by complicated problems. He does not’ understand p,r sympathise with the old-fashioned fear and dread of change, because ho does not realise how entangled and interwoven things

become in a loiig-ostnblishod civilisation. His attitude towards all methods and all institutions becomes critical and antagonistic, because lio finds that so many of them do not work well in the colonies and ho does not see that what works well ill tho colonies might not usually work well at Home. But particularly he does not seo that while some things are merely working methods other things nro fundamental principles,and that while we have changed some conditions by immigrating to tho antipodes thoro nro other tilings which wo have not changed at all. From which mental incapacity comes irreverence. It docs not take a groat deal of analysis to sco that it is not the keenness of the colonial which makes him irreverent but his superficiality, the samp superficiality as made our fathers reverent and will somo day make us all reverent again. For reverence is necessary not. becauso of tho strength of human intelligence but becauso of its weakness, because it is absolutely and completely impossible for us to trust' tlio faculty we call reason, as it is possessed by the average mail. In thoso new countries a sudden call has been made upon men’s individualities upon practical lines, to which a splendid and satisfactory response has been made; but llioy havo not' generally had tho intolligonco to porcoivo the very narrow and limited character of this demand, that it has only boon upon linos which aro constantly and everlastingly changing. They do not' realise that though old men know nothing of driving motor-cars, though a newclmm does not know how to cook over a camp fire, alteration has not thereby necessarily taken place in the real wisdoms, in the essential moralities, iu tho laws that govern human society and human relationship.

But though tho irreverence of tho colonial is to bo regretted wc need not weep over it as men who have no hope. For ho is only n Britisher transplanted, who if lie had reverence under the old conditions would still bo old fashioned just as the men ol the past would be as tlio colonial is, if similarly circumstanced. And possibly one cause for tho ease with which this colonial irreverence lias sprung to domination is tlie neglect to which the sacred things had been subjected by those who had them in charge. All kings cense to be kingly and bishops cease to be bishops and statesmen seek self-aggrandisement and wealth is wasted in idle luxury and authority belittled by its own pettiness and dogmatism, there is little wonder that tlie noble conceptions they represent should be lightly regarded by the critical. For it is not crowns which make tlio king or installation tlie bishops, nor has either wealth or authority any greater claim to human respect than that it is for the elevation of mankind And if those in high places set an example to the lowly, ,if the old lands made better use of tlieir institutions and tlieir opportunities, if the church gathered in every soul which gropes for the light and were, as they ought to be, the living centres of national life and spiritual aspiration, wo might not bear as much of colonial irreverence.

Anyway, irreverences will go. Sooner or later must come sonic groat emotion, some supreme test which will concentrate every energy and leave no time for splitting hairs and cavilling over the things settled long ago. To some men the tests come individually, through the great passions of grief or love or duty or some other; to nations the test comes only in one form —upon the wings of national war and national peril and with the stirring of that patriotism which to most is the greatest passion of all. And when we hear in Auckland the roar of guns beyond Rangitoto, then women will kneel who never knelt before and men pray for their country who for themselves would never pray. And without reasoning we shall know that we don’t know everything and that there are more things in heaven and earth, seeming good or seeming evil, than have been dreamed of in our philosophies. WHY GO HUNGRY. If your stomach is weak and you are suffering from indigestion, don’t sacrifice your health and comfort. Eat all the wholesome food you want. Then take one of Dr. Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules after each meal. They digest your food and thus nourish and build you up, while the stomach is recovering its natural tone. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist. WEAK BACKS. The weak spot in many men and women is the back. It gives out before the other part of the body. It gets tired and aches terribly after a, day’s work or night’s pleasure. A tired, weak back, pulls a person right down and renders life miserable. The kidneys are often supposed to be the cause, but usually the muscles and tendons in the back have bepn strained. Dr. Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment is the proper and only permanent remedy. Rub it into the pores of the back,'' and a feeling of renewed’ strength and vigor will come immediately, and a few such treatments will fix you up all right. Dr. Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment takes out soreness and inflammation. It invigorates and freshens all the muscular tissues. It contains ingredients that you never used before. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist.