NEW ZEALAND'S FAILURES.
[To mu EDITOR or vas .23norAroo."1 Six,—This Dominion flattered itself that it was teaching the world an object-lesson with its Arbitration Courts and com- pulsory Territorial scheme. At the present moment there is practically a general strike over the whole country, and the farmers have responded to the request of the towns that they come in their thousands to the coastal cities to maintain order on the water-fronts, and so protect any waterside workers who may be willing to load the homeward-bound steamers with the produce of these settlers. As for the Territorials, many of these young men are strikers or the sons of strikers ; there- fore regiments have been disarmed in most of the provincial districts of the Colony. Since the J. G. Ward Arbitration Act came into force there have been more strikes than ever before in the whole history of the Colony, and this present very serious trouble makes a record in " sympatheties " for the civilized
world.-1 am, Sir, Ste., H. J. New Zealand : November 1114.
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