NEAR AND FAR

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 3

NEAR AND FAR

A young man named Cecil Slandlcy Chaplin, who had been employed as a letter-carrier, pleaded guilty at tho Magistrate's Court at Wellington to a charge of unlawfully detaining various postal packages, letters, post cards, and newspapers. Chaplin was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence. The Council of tho New Zealand Locomotive Engine-drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association, who protested against clauses 7, 8, and 10 of the Railway Bill No. 2, and the injustice of making alterations in tho conditions of railwayworkers without consulting them in any way, havo received information tliat their protests will be favorably considered. Caversham School Committee met last evening, Mr J. S. Bamett presiding. An offer from Miss Major to arrango an entertainment by her pupils to raise funds in aid of the gymnasium hall was accepted. The Education Board have offered to give a subsidy of pound for pound in aid of the same object. It was decided to hold the breaking-up ceremony on December 21, tho school to reassemble on February 6. It was resolved to forward a letter of condolence and sympathy to tho widow and family of tho late Mr G. C. Baker, also to Mr T. Thomson on the loss of his daughter, who was a pupil of tho school. It was decided to request the Education Board not to alter tho school boundaries without consulting tho Committee, this decision being based on a petition made to the Board bv the Macandrcw Road School Committee to extend their district boundaries. It is doubtful (says tho Sydney ' Daily Telegraph' in a leading article) whether New Zealand, is far enough away from Australia to always retain its present political independenceT In the course of time tho 1,200 miles of salt water may fail to justify political separation. The war risk to both Dominions may be too serious to bo tolerated. They may have to come together in order to minimise clanger, and assure the maximum of defensive strength. " Business men with whom I came into contact in England," said Mr N. Barraud to a Wellington ' Post' reporter, " regard tho politico-social outlook in the United Kingdom as very grave indeed. Thero is a dread of some terrible civil crisis, culminating in bloodshed. Did you hear in New Zealand that some of the Territorials .were being disarmed? Mr Lloyd George, I learned, was regarded as a very dangerous man by the English business men whom I met. Assuredly the outlook in the domestic affairs of Britain to-day is very gravo So it appeared when I left; so subsequent events, especially in Wales, have shown it to be. I would not call the business men I met alarmists by any means. They appeared to mo to voice the general opinion of all thinking members of their class. Frankly, from what 1 saw of things, I do not like "the prospect at all. England, in fact tho wholo of the United Kingdom, appears to bo on tho eve of a great social upheaval." The lot of thonian on tho land with a good daily herd is to be envied at present (says tho ' Mataura Ensign'). With dairy produce and other staplo products at their maximum values the practical farmer may well say, as one of old : " My lines havo fallen in pleasant places and I have a goodly heritage." A district farmer, Mr John Caldwell, as a supplier to tho Edendale Dairy Factory, last Saturday put up what is regarded as a Southland record for ono supplier on ono day. Ho delivered no less than 390 gallons of milk at the factory, retaining sixteen gallons at home. Tlris bitr total was tho fine return from 110 cows.