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CHURCHES AND `JOCKEYS:

ww CLERGY TALK OF INHUMANITY.

NEW THEORY OF MIGRA- TION.

Was there în far distans pre-Į historic times a vast continent where now is the Pacific Ocean a continent covered with great forests, threaded by deep rivers, stuckled with tremendous moun tain peaks and dotted over with stone cities, the homes of the |people of this loet land!

On the motion of the Res. J. J. North the following resolution was carried:--

weights should'osaan, That union [tha jockeys' formed was breakin. | so it was believed, by the personal latruidation of prominent owners. One of the men's claims was thə extension to them of a pison of The Christchurch (New Zea.common bumanity, and when the land) Council of Churches, at its union was broken the jockeys annual reating discussed the were promised that the matter matter of the grievance put for would be considered favourably ward by the jockers at the time by the Racing Conference. At the conference Mr. Orball, a of the formation of their associa- tion (says the New Zealand southern owner, submitted a pro- posal that henceforth ist should Referee).

be the minimum weight requirad from a jockey, and claimed that Professor William A. Bryan,

in the south the concession bad who holds the Chair, of Zoology

produced excellent results. The and Geology in the College of

"The Council of Churches "ralls conference, however, voted the Hawaii. believes he has the attention of the Government proposal out. One owner declar- found evidence of the existence and of the public generally to the ed that the adoption of the pro- of such a continent in the shape inhumanity inflicted on jockeys posal would mean the penalising of little fresh-water molluscs by the present rules of racing. of first-elzsa horses.. which he discovered on the island

We talk a lot," added Mr. "The council is convinced that of Juan Fernandez, just of the West Coast of South America. the appeal of the jockeys to have North, about Raman holidays. the minimum weight titted from and of gladiators and bull fights, Juan Fernandez is the islands 1b to 7 was

this brutality and in- one which bat made famous by Robinson Crusoe, every principle of humanity humanity of the very grossest That worthy was never more sur required should be granted. prised to see the footprint in the sands than Professor Bryan was to see these molluses. They closely resembled species found upon Hawaii--but how had thes crossed the thousands of miles of sea between the two places?

GEENT RIDDLE MAY BE EXPLAINED.

The islands of the South Parific are, of course, but the summits of submerged mountains. There is however, no unassailable evidence that the mountains whose peaks are the islands were once all above the surface-forming a con- tinuous and continental land

mass.

Yet if the molluses found by Professor Bryan turn out to be the identical species as those on Hawaii. they form very convincing evidence indeed of such a condition. For there are no means by which they could have found their way from Hawaii to Juan Fernandez or vice versa i

"The cruelty of wasting down to such a weight as fist 7lb is re- pulsive in the extreme.

sor:

M57 IN THE TERKISH MATHS. Mr. E. C. Brown, who seconded the motion, quoted the case of a "The council notes that the jookes he met in the Turkish Racing Conference, largely in the baths. This boy, he said, was in interests of the horses, refused a very weak and wasted state, justice and humane consider and his frame was showing ations to the men.

through his body. He said he

"The council urges that the was riding the next day, and had case is one for State action, and to get his weight down from 7st believes that the law should ex-21b. to 6st. 1015 by the morning tead to jockeys as much protec-otherwise he would lose bis job tion as it extends to the brutes in He had already been reducing the Cruelty to Animals Act."

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himself during the previous foar days, and was in such a condi- tion that the effort to throw off another 41lb. must bare involved! great danger.

In introducing the motion, Mr.

The Rev. J. K. Archer said it' North said that when the Jockeys" Association pot for and its claims was strange to think that the there was a demand that the mis-miserable weedy horse bad to be erable. debilitating custom of pampered at the expense of the wasting" necessary to reduce men. They were told that those the jockeys to the very light horses must be preserved because

there was need of cavalry horse. He did not know what the officers! would do if they got astride those than along the courses of rivers! in tropiral America. They could be

arrass from Mr. P. W. Sharpe said the And if there were rivers there make their way

Asia. a did Council should deplore that the have teea

land for southern

Other animals racing meo bad broken up the The organisation. the rivers to fox through-human beings. land, that is to say, extending likewise, of course. The bears of jockers from Hawaii to the coast of what Sootb America are nearly related jockeys should understand that to those of Southern Asia and the the sprapathies of the council is now South America.

jaguar of South America is very were with them. And if such a bridge is proved like the leopard of.the Old World. Rev. W. M'Ara said it seemed to have existed, one of the most

Considering that part of the letrange in a country like this baffling mysteries of the world

which joined here there was plenty of honor will be in a fair way of being supposed bridge solved--the riddle of the prra-South America with Hawaii, weable work to be done that men mids and ruins both of Central and its two terminal "plers" re- should be willing to reduce them- volcanic selves to seven stone and upder. America and South America, so presented by great

frmations. The Hawaiian Is-What sort of men would they be? The Rev. Dr. Erwin said the huge volcanoes, and, as everybody copazil should not go beyond kops a tremendous plutonic what was ressonable.

The motion was put and carried activity is still manifested there.

unanimously. Hallway between the west) of South America and Hawali j Oceana

Bank-discoverid in 1891. The depth there is less thas 400t, but on all sides of this shoal the bottom drops precipitously to more than three miles. It is a

downward mountain"-an quite high enough to emer tine: volcano that does not rise

above the surface of the ocean.

SYMPATHY WITH RIDERS. Mr. Sharpe said it would carry tremendous weight and raise the] prestige of the council if the Jockeys' meeting expressed some sort of sympathy with the CX-

That we write to the secretary of the Jockeys Association expressing Association. He moved

our sympathy with their object in forming & strong organisation."

Rev. W. Ready said it was not within the province of the council to say the jockeys should form He was against the

like thase of Egypt, their legends: so like the Northern African and lands are the exposed tops of Asiatic, and a civilisation with Such striking similarities to tha: of Asia that it has seemed impossible n 1 to have been in some manner connected with it, THE BEHRING STRAIT THEORY. For lack of a better theory, it has long been accepted as fact that the New World was original ly peopled by Asiatics who cross ed by way of Behring Strait. wide, and frozen all winter, this The Strait, being only 40 miles idea was undeniably plausible. But there have been serious The best date one can give for objections. If that, theory were the breaking of the land bridge is correct, bow explain the fact tha: it must have occurred at the that in pre-Columbian days less: 100.000 years ago. thro W35 BO civilisation The Continental mass. if it paions- worthy of the name north of existed, probably ran from South jockeys and their trade, and wond Mexico, whereas in the latter Eastern Asia, taking in Australis, not belo to bolster up either. 1 country, ju General America. New Zealand, New Java, and a the jockers wanted a union let and in Peru, there were peoples portion of what is now the them paddle their own cance.

Rev. W. M'Arasaid that nobody with highly developed arts, in- Malay Archipelago. It extend dustries, and even literature? 2]

than further north

the forced the jockers to ride the How explain the fact that Hawaiian Islands. It is probable borses. They could take up some these advanced peoples bad that at that time that were no other work.

Mountains. The sub- traditions and customs wholly Andes

The chairman (Dr. Erwin) said! different from those of the North sidence which carried this lost it was all very well to say that, American Indians?

land beneath the waters of the but not so easy to carry out after All the evidence points to the Pacific at the same time raised a man had devoted his life to a conclusion that their ethnic stock the great western South American certain line of work. were derived from sources not the mountain chain and perhaps the BOB. those from which came Rockies. The subsidence, Darwin the North American tribes. Their proved, was gradualTM Even after culture resembled very strikingly the mainland was disappeared the cultures of southern Asia and it is probable that a tremendous porthern Africa the likeness bridge extended for a time clear being especially striking in their across the ocean. architecture, their sculptures, and THE COURSE OF THE BRIDGE. tion passed at a meeting of the their forms of religious worship.

The hydrographic charts show Council of Churches in Christ- It extends even to their gods.

a strip of aballow water still church in reference to the treat- To suppose that the prehistoric running all the way from Hawaii ment of jockeys, ancestors of these people came to Midway Islands, thence south- Mr. Masser (the Prime Minis all the way from nothern Africa west to the Marshall Islands, ter) replied that his attention

not been called and southern Asia by way of weat to the Caroline Islands and bad Behring Strait, and thence made Yap and south-west again to the the matter, and he was not their way southward to Central Malay Archipelago. There is sufficiently qualified to pass an and South America, without evidence also of ancient shallows opinion on the statement regard leaving behind them anywhere from Hawaii south-east all the ing the jockeys read at the council north of Mexico the slightest way to the lower west coast of meeting trace of their civilization seeme South America, and taking in the Mr. Witty: You couldn't get on the face of it an absurdity.

DROWNED MOUNTAIN FOUND

IN-1891.

castward

After farther discussion Mr. Sharpe withdrew his motion.

DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT.

Pertament Subsequently in Mr. D. 1. Sullivan directed the attention of the Government to the discussion and the resolu-

to

island of Juan Fernandez, Still down to six nions sevELL

Mr. Massey: No, I would another shelf ruus across lower Polynesia.

rather not; but I am not a jockey, It may have been that on the I may say, however, that I have If, on

the other hand, the submerged continent originated a considerable number of jockeys former existence of a trans-Facile both the Asian and the South and in-my.constituency, and I have land bridge be accepted, all of the entral American civilisations never had a single complains from mystery is cleared up. We can that the same human stook, fes-them about getting down their then recognise the Incas of Feru, ing from the cataclysm, was split, weight

the Mayas, the Toltecs, and the developing through the ager on Mr. Bullivan: It was one of Aztece as peoples transplanted opposite sides of the dividing the demands of the jookers. from the equatorial regions of theaters But it is more Haly Mz Holland: Quite right, too. Old World to the equatorial human stocks originating in Mr. Massey said the club could regions of the New World er fare the way in latter make their own serangements.

The former

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