The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, December 30, 1890. EXIT 1889.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 550, 30 December 1890, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, December 30, 1890. EXIT 1889.

Be Just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country’B, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

To-morrow brings another year to a close. One cannot help feeling how similar it has been to past years. Now and again there happens an annus mirabilis, but such occasions are the exceptions. Each year has its record of disasters by land and sea, of wonderful discoveries in the various branches of human knowledge, of remarkable events in the civis of the world’s citizens Each year has its death roll of famous men, while yet more famous and living men give undeniable testimony that they still live and . work. Stirring events are ever happening in the religious, social, and political worlds, and changes which have only decreased in magnitude by reason of altered circumstances are forever going on. The past year has seen the most gigantic labor revolt on record. It has shown for ihe first time a federation of labor and the power it commands. A scheme for the regeneration of the sinful and poverty-stricken has been evolved ly General Booth (of the Salvation Army), which may have a stupendous effect in the near future, A dis-

covery of a cure for a hitherto incurable disease will, it is believed, bring joy to thousands of consumptives. These three things affect the world’s progress in diverse ways, but these alone without the other host of events more or less important, make the year a remarkable one. Although it is the jubilee year of the colony, in New Zealand we had perhaps better have obliterated the record. We have had a bad session of one of the worst parliaments the country has ever had, and in ten months we have lost over 3000 persons by the excess of emigration over immigration. In commercial matters a steady improvement is now going on all around, and the prospects are more encouraging than they have been for years past. The resources of the country are gradually being developed on a more substantial basis than hitherto, trade is being conducted on a more satisfactory footing, and things generally have assumed a much steadier character. I.et us hope that this improvement will continue, that the troubles of the year will be buried with the dead past, and that we shall all welcome the new year with .stout hearts and good intentions that will not remain unfulfilled.