>APER foe Wrapping-up For Sale. Apply JL 'Star' Office, Bond street. INSURANCE NOTICES. STANDARD P. AND M. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED. Head Office: HIGH STREET, Dunedln. Risks accepted in following Departments:— Fire, Marine, Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability, Personal Accident, Accident and Disease, Mortgage Indemnity, Fidelity Guarantee, including Administration Bonds, and Plate Glass. Telephone 28. THOMAS E. FISHER, General Manager. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY '1 h j"• i-tuking of talcmai from behind, in tilt: coiir.e of a Ivtween chilis engaged in what is supposed to be friendly rivalry, wan lightly described bv judge ami counsel as a disgr.ic-.". We have no doubt the j>''oscci'tion will have done good, and tint football authorities throughout the Dominion will tike from if the obvious lesson it enuvews—that <uch brutality cannot be tolerated, and that when it takes placeunder the name of "sport" the offence is really intensified.—Wellington 'Times.' 'I ho exact etl'ectb of the piercing of I lie i>thmiiis thai unites Ihe two American cannot yet be foiescn. but almost certainly the canal will be used for the establishment of n. fast, direct service between Australasia and Loudon. No doubt Sir Jellies .Mills thoroughly umk'iviia.nds the position m I hat rcispect, and it i» rot improbable that lb" ultimate jiurpose of the big istcaincis hj. l hah in view is to take part in a Panama, service. Xew Zealand will await details of the offer with considerable interest.—-' Lvttelton Times.' .A.s pood work can be turned out in our foundries and work-dio|« .as anywhere in the. world, but the manufacturers cannot compete. against outside production without some measure of tariii' protection. It is a question that d'-'-erves the most earefel attention of (he Government, and fin', quickly. If the iron industry, which is so essential to the progress of any countiy, is not to be starved out in New Zealand, it must receive, reasonable protection.— . Wellington ' Freelance.' I From ii glance ;if the Hill just i-irculated if would seem that the Prime Minister he> I not gone very far in tho diio-tion of toiiiovj im: the existing blot* 0:1 our libel law. j Still, it. is a step in -the right direction, and he- is to be commended for bavin;,' taken the matter in hand. —Wellington ' Dominion.' The !>xowth of lieot awl the manufacture of sugar from it h;ive vastly benefited Franco and Germany from an industrial point of view. It is not e.usy to wo why a like success could not lie achieved in New Zealand. —Greymouth ' Argue.' The possibility of New Zealand jioliticians taking an active and prominent-'jia.it in British domestic jioiitics is one of the reasons why wo tliink it will be better if tho Premier is not accompanied on his trip Home next your by a delegation from the New Zealand Parliament.—Chritstehurcii 'Press.' There. ]s much to be .said in favor of the projwsiil to establish a permanent paxtnerehijj between the State and jirivate shareholders of the Hank of New Zealand. There is a very general feeling that as the bank's profits are being made to a very considerable extent by the help of money with which tho State has furnished if tho ! State slioukl participate equally with the shareholders in those profit*. Shareholders are undoubtedly enjoying the use of the credit that the Government have embarked ! in the bank, and are reaping from it returns in tho shape of dividends in which the Government do not fully .share.— i Christchiirch Tret*.' Comparatively little interest has been displayed by the general public in die Kino 'charges since it was made clear by tho evidence submitted to the Special Com- | mittce ajipointcd by the House of Representatives that the" member for Stratford utterly failed to justify the suspicions he bad cast upon the Government. The gravity of Mr Kine's indictment lay in the suggestion that Ministers of tho Crown had used their official jxwition to promote private interests, and in this way had grossly betrayed their public trust. The , searching inquiry of the Committee lias I shown that the suggestion was without even a. shadow of, foundation.—'Lyttellon Tim**.' . .... ....
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Evening Star, Issue 14524, 28 November 1910, Page 1
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