CORRESPONDENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2292, 10 September 1908, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Correspondence on public matters : ,h welcomed at all times, but it must bo distinctly understood that this journal is in no way associated with (ho opinions of its correspondents.] FEARLESS JOURNALISM. (To tho Editor.) Sir, —It is very gratifying to find your journal, is not cowardly and afraid to oppose the vile drink traffic. To quoto Miss Murcott, “If you throw a stone at a mob of dogs, Em cur that is hit .is the one that goes away howling.” You 'hit them all right, and now they arc howling. Plenty of people are grateful too, and will stand by you. Perhaps the Prohibition League will direct the subscription list for you.—l am, etc., “A GUINEA IN THIS CASE.” [We luivo received many letters, of which the abovo is typical. The approval of our correspondents is appreciated, but tho subscription list fortunately is not accessary. As in tho past we shall continue to stand for the protection of public interests, regardless of threats or other consequences.—Ed. “Times.”] THE OUTER HARBOR. [To Tins Editor.] Sir, —I am surprised at any member of the Harbor Board advocating a site for tho harbor under Young Nick’s Head, it looks to me like drawing a herring across tho scent. In tho first place thero is no depth of wo ter, and it would require a breakwater at least one and a half miles long to get the depth that thero is at the proposed site on this side. ’The si to picked by Mr Marehant is tho right spot, and protected by the Tua.Motu Island and reef thero will be very little lunge inside the breakwater to trouble shipping. I should suggest to tho members of tlm Harbor Board that they get the loan of one of the Government diamond drills and bore into Pah hill. As suitable

stone might there he found for the rubble work, it could also be used for testing Waihirei’e and other outcrops. Could you inform the public what the three opinions now obtaining have cost altogether? I am beginning- to think that if we get -any more opinions wo "will soon want a special loan to pay for them, without having a breakwater. Now, as regards the river entrance the Board ure only playing with -it. Why don’t they ecll the “John Townley” and get a proper bucket dredge that will lift as much in a day as “John” will in a nonth. The river must he our harbor for years to come, and they may as well face it at once and keep it open for the colliers and traders that are running here now. If the Board could only arrange with the Napier Harbor Board to supply them with enough ready made blocks to extend the present breakwater another 100 feet -it would make the river entrance secure and do away with all the backwash that is now forced up the river by the groin overlapping the breakwater. —I am, etc., G.J.B. MR KOHERE’S (SERMON. [To the Editor.] iSr, —-Apparently “Pakeli-a’s” definition of an impartial observer is a person who agrees with his views, However incorrect those views may be, and I maintain my reply to “Pakeha’s” argument, as he calls his evasions of the point .a't issue, was conclusive land showed, how absurd bis arguments were. You will -remember that he merely threw aside Mr Ivohere's text by saying it was ho argument as the words were not spoken by Christ as though Christ was the only Jew. The Jewish maiden in question might have been black —and this would not imply that the rest of his people were fair, for it cannot be conceived that fair parents could have a black child unless it was a freak of nature —it would rather imply that ■she was black compared with her dark sisters. As regards the second point, I would certainly, with what knowledge I possess of English, take “Pakeha’s” words that the “Jew was less fair than a Northern European” to imply that- the Jew wa6 fair though not a« fair as a Scandinavian. This is the first timo I have ever heard of the Jew being Called fair—he has always been called dark. If the Jews were a fair race many of them would have been blest with fair or red hair, but who has ever seen a pure Jew with red hair? If the Jew who has been living for years in cold climates or Ims taken to an indoor life can be as dark as ho is what color would the nomad and shepherd Abraham be? It is in his nativo land that the Jew is seen with his true color, which is more than dark. "We know Abraham originally came from Chaldea, a country adjoining black Arabia, and the Chaldeans were a Chushite race, which is allied to the colored Aetliiopians (Dr Smith’s dictionary of the Bible). All the races living between the Levant and Burrnah, namely the Jews, the Assyrians, the Arabs, the Persians, the Afghans, the Indians, the Cingalese, etc., are colored and anyone who -disputed this statement may as well oall black white, as “Pakelia” is vainly trying to do. He doubts whether climate lias anything to do with color. How can we then account for the fact'that -races which inhabit hot countries -are invariably dark or black and races living ill cold climates invariably fair. Perhaps it is a mere coincidence. When “Pale eh a” contended that the Jewish -race was descended from the Aryan stock I pointed out to him that the black Indian was also one of the branches of the Aryan stock and lie could not deny this,' but went to the bottom of tho list I submitted and took exception to the Maori’s claim to be Aryan also, as though he feared lest the inclusion of the Maori would spoil his theory that all Aryan races were' white, quite forgetful of the black Indian whom he had admitted into the select circle. Judge Fornander and Mr Tregear are the authorities on the Aryan descent of the Polynesian, -and oilier learned men -also trace the Maori back even t 0 a Cnucasic origin. I am satisfied that, however much a white man may boast of the Creator s making -a- favorite of him. the Son of Man” was colored. I may assure “Pakelia” that I do not .in the least barker after being European. I am not ashamed of my color, which is only skin deep and no more, ,uist as “Pakeha’s” is; Mr Editor, unless “Pakelia” would advance some argument worthy of 'my notice I would ■not waste my time any more -in iollowing liis evasions. —I am, (J