The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-08

arrive in Melbourne until the end of the
month, and then they would have to be
specially trained for Sydney. The birth
of a nation would not be complete with
out great blow up.
I A MILITARY SPECTACLE.
AS a military spectacle alone the pro-
ceedings on Commonwealth day should
be of gloriously picturesque charac-
ter. Side by side with the flower of the
British army there will be gathered to-
gether the cream of the soldiers of the
Southern Cross, and the valiant colored
warriors from India. who in themselves
will. perhaps, form one of the most pic
turesque elements in the calebra tions
Victoria is to make a brave military
show and 600 picked men, horse and
foot, and band of fifty performers
are under orders. Troops Of emu
feathered, hardy Queenslanders, and al
so specially selected contingents from
the other colonies, are coming. Then
there are the grim, gaunt and granite
faced" New Zealanders, as one man
has called them. Outside of the I'm
perial and Indian troops the men from
the land of the Maori will be one of
the features of the procession. New
Zealand's patriotic stock stands high
| in Australasia. Their Australian COM
rades, who have rubbed shoulders with
them, fought and starved with them
on the field, have freely promulgated
their golden opinions of the Maori
blokes.'
| A LONE BRIGHT STAR.
! The position, too. of New Zealand in
this great federal era, like a lone star
in the Australasian constellation, will
make her stalwart representatives OBJ
Ijects of special curiosity and interest
in the ceremony. That a great recep-
ltion awaits them was indicated by the
heartiness of their welcome when the
soldiers returned from South Africa
last week. The New Zealanders uere
given pride of place in the procession,
and when they swept out Of Redfern
station, headed by Dapper little Lieu
itenant Hughes of Napier, who, as COM
pared with the war-stamped men be-
hind him, looked as if he had come off
a swell parade, so spick and span was
he, the thousands swarming and crush
ing outside wildly cheered and brayoed
the New Zealanders, and all along .he
weary march to the barracks they We're
greeted with cries of Bravo, New Zea-
land and "Tenakoe pakeha." Here
land there, too, little bands of New zea-
landers made the proceedings particu--
Harry lively with unrehearsed hakas.
The New Zealand contingent of prliti-
lcal and military heroes, can depsnd
upon the warmth of welcomes.
THINGS THAT JAR.
/ Here and there discordant note has
- ,,,,
have arisen. For instance. twas
tclaimed that the Mayor should receive
the Governor General. and not the
Premier. This was overruled by the
! popular, as we'll as the official, voice.
and rightly so. Lord Hopetoun comes
to the colonies as the representative of
the British Crown, and as such he
should be received by the high
est officials of the state he
lands in Now there are ru-
mors that the celebrations will be de-
prived of certain gubernatorial bill
liancy by the absence of the state Gov
ernors The monumental difficulty cf
the question of precedence is again
urged as one reason of the absence of
state Governors. Naturally there IS a
little soreness.
i AUSTRALASIA NOTES.
Two dredgers have been constructed
at Stanthorpe, Queensland, for the pur-
pose of dredging for tin.
, During November there were 4,03O
men employed in the cooperative
, works under government departments.
It is reported that deer are spread
ing rapidly in the East Coast districts
of the North Island, and that RABBITS
are becoming very scarce.
1 shearer named Banby put up a
Y record recently on Mr.. Kennedy's sta
ton, near Masterton, by shearlng III
sheep in eight hours and half.
:, ! The Wairoa CHawke-s Bay) Hospital
:. Board proposes to canvass the district
with a view to supplementing the gov
ernment grant of G1,OO0 for new nos
pital by G400 or $500.
!, There appears to be a wave OF EN-
' bezzlement passing through the popu
lation, remarks an exchange, for sci
dom is a paper lifted but news come:
: of fraud from one direction or another
s The North Canterbury Education
v Board has decided to allow one Of 1T
s inspectors, and also delegate chosei
9 by the teachers, to attend the educa
= ton conference to be held in Melbourn
. in January next.
!, Most of the old colonisrs will remem
IL Der Alfred Henry Jakins, VINO arrive
i in Auckland in 1861, and took part 4
has just been received of his death a
his residence in Brixton, near Lon
don.
y The Justice Department are bus
IS framing the regulations required b
IS the Shorthand Reports Act passe
e last session, and they will shortly b
4 gazetted. They will provide chief
: for examinations, and the standar
= number of words per minute will b
fixed.
Small birds may not be the nuisanc
that some imagine. Orchard pests /
ls Wairarapa appear to be growing les
u and less formidable, and this is no.
:. attributed by many fruit growers les
Il to spraying and other precautions tina
y to the multiplication of the importe
[ warblers.
le The question of back-block settler
h purchasing old broken-down horse
p and making them work hard as pack
Y, horses, was seriously discussed at a re
ie cent meeting Of the committee of th
y Society for the Prevention Of Cruelt
G to Animals, at Masterton, when it we
decided to take immediate action
suppress the system.
oI very peculiar accident occurred u