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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1302, 4 December 1911, Page 8

A correspondent writes to a Taranald paper: "The Dudley Road school room was taxed to its utmost capacity 1 to hear .Mr. Hino on political mutters. This meeting was one of tho most pleasant and successful meetings of the whole tour, the. speaker's remarks being thoroughly appreciated judging by the frequent applause. At the close of the address a few minor questions wore, asked and answered. A hearty vote of thanks and confidence was moved, but this was not, enough lor one gentleman, and ho proposed an amendment that a vote of thanks and conlidenco bo tendered to the speaker and that the meeting had no confidence in the present Administration. This was carried unanimously, and the meeting ended with three hearty cheers for Mr. Uine." Tho Bank of New Zealand rcmindi

shareholders that an interim dividend of six per cent, upon th*, ordinary sharecapital of the bunk has been declared, and is now payable. Further particulars appear elsewhere. • "What is tho difference," aske<l a t!iccarton elector, "between the Conservative -paTty prior w> lsai ana the present-day Reform party?" Mr. Knsor, replied: "Lilco tho moa, the old Conservatives are extinct, dead ami buried, and only' exist ia tho imaginations of a few old croaker's."— Christcinu'cli "News." The "Timaru llerald" points out. that the sum total of beneficent legislation which the present Government hn.s passed, as coniDared with its predecessors, bulks very 'small indeed. ' "It includes the National l'rovident Act,, of very limited scope, the Worke-rs' Dwellings Act, and extensions of tho old ago pensions and other humanitarian Acts, which wore, 1 passed-with the full-approval of the Opposition. The-Government takes i)T"nt credit for having remitted a certain quantity of- taxation by way of Customs emtif'sioiis, but that simply means that, while it has collected from the people every year more taxation than the expense of government requires—as shown by its annual-surpluses—'it lias forel«<me to take a little more still which it mijrhf. have taken. It has nctnallv. in-reaml (be av. rrafro. taxation 'beyond the limit of nny other Australasian State, and the excuse which it. makes for flu's is that it hai consistently la.v-cd IVler to save Paul, 1 lint if this was its intention, (lie plan to have vorkod very ill in | Tnc- ' tiee. or why should workman I'jiiil, nlthoiiirh hil wa lies have Wen, increased, ' find it n liarder problem than formerly I to make Ixith ends meet?" ! Russia, the United .Stulofi. Ronmnnla, Austria-Hungary, and Burma are tho prin. cipal oil-fields .of. tho. world.. , ■ y