THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 84, 15 May 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

the'great budget. ■ '.'[[[) The revenue has increased , by .. nine and a-half millionSj or some three-and a-half millions more than the sum even Mr,. George anticipated, and -. : for anticipating which he was charged by tHe; Opposition with gambling \yildly. Practically every branch of revenue wiiich is at all elastic has greatly exceeded > his estimate:—Customs ; .by £250,000, excise by £1,140,000, estate duties £1,299,000. This, is< eminently satisfactory, and it is,, of course, not merely a vindication, of. Mr George's prescience, but, far inore important, another striding demonstration ov ibe extraordinary elasticity and fruitfulnes? n£ the great Budget. —"News and Leader.*' A SHAMEFUL EPISODE. Mr Asquith lhakes the contemptibly business more ' clear when he «ael&r|s that there is no difference of view between Sir John -French and the Gifc veminent. No difference of view, when Sir John signed and endorsed the parkgraphs which the Government repudiated! The whole thing has bepii a shameful episode. It has earned' us contempt abroad. It has weakened"'tfs in every way. Tlie attempted pogrom and its'sequel'would have buried aiiy Ministry not supported by paid followers. —"Express." X

IDEALS OF NATIONAL EMINENCE. It is a pity that 1 a body of men, soni'e of whom are actual legislators, and the rest members in ambition, are not''inspired by'the le'ssoms of human natVre and the dictates of-common 1 sense. "What ideal-s of- national OiiinOnee 'be cultivated in a narrow, cramped vironment such as that existing in the Political Labour . Council, where all the lessons of history are disregarded'and passion, and prejudicfe and quack nos? trums take the place of gra,v ely pandered counsel and serious "Age."