| Show written for this thi paper NEW ZEALAND MISSION eldera ridge young Y oung and johnson arrived safely oy ny we last frisco steamer elder ridges having been ai B pointed to the australian district continued his bis voyage by the same boat after afier a few hurs he urn rest in auckland th tb measles have swept over this country cou and though usually very fatal with the natives who are agnor ant of its nature and proper treatment the mortality has baa been very light indeed as compared to its former v visita to these islands the general health now of both elders eiders and saints baiata is good so BO far as I 1 am advised the female franchise and local option has made the abe present session of the new zealand parliament very lively and caused quite a ripple on the toli political oli sea ot of the colony anil and I 1 might say of australasian alasia the success of the former measure is now an ao ac complis hed fact and may be re carded as a very radical departure for a british colony of course it had bitter opponents among the conservative clan only passing pas fling the appi upper r house by a majority of two the local option bill will succeed no doubt but in such a form that but little good can be expected from it although this to la a new country strike babir 1 troubles and cun unemployed 9 are not stranger B here money has exercised a far greater influence here in the settlement of this thia country than what we have known especially in the western part of america liand land monopoly or the monopoly of the natural facilities make it an easy baay matter for capital to dictate its own terms which means the e largemont lar gement of the masses na assee what a contrast between this and the method and ultimate results character ising icing the settlement of the sainta saint in ID the once forbidding but now beautiful and happy vales of zion there la Is a strong growing here in favor of the single tax system so eo ably advocated by henry ge george rge of america and looking to the naturalization or of the land the government here bore are proceeding somewhat along theme theae lines by a system of a graduated land tax the law lav being adjusted so BO that the larger the holdings the greater their heir proportionate amount of tax of course wise legislation may to some come extent modify existing evils but only modify for the final abolition we must bok gjok to something that must tear from the heart of man the incubus of selfishness and hate immerse it in a solution lution ao that will dissolve dida olve its calloused surface which has bas been formed by ages aea of accumulated wrongs aud and opples then implant within it a love that to is as an broad as aa humanity and as aa enduring as ar eternity inspire it with a knowledge of m mind to ai and godla fatherhood then and not till then will violence and and oppression preB sion cease and wise laws be justly ad ministered me that the vast majority or of mankind will not allow the master to heal beal them teem but will pursue the alian torn tom of socialism secret eions tione 11 1 1 etc etc till death and destruction la in upon them yet must they be warned of the and the low few who are honest be gathe gathered W T STEWART |
