TESTIMONIAL TO NOBLE

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 3

TESTIMONIAL TO NOBLE

(Reed. 29th, 7.57 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 29. A proposal is mooted to present Noble with a national testimonial in recognition of This fine individual play and exceptional skill in captaining th c test matches (Reed, ist, 4-43 P-™-) , Subscriptions have * already been started at Sydney and Melbourne for a testimonial to Noble.

Says the Ross correspondent of the Guardian, writing of th? Ross •Goldfields Coy, the title of the Company seems to involve a claim to the whole field but there iare other properties to acquire beside the alluvial deposits in the deep levels. In • connection witih the areas applied for, Mr J. C. Macfarlane is "now surveying and delineating them. It is expected that two or three weeks will "expire in the survey.

The Tames reports that on the Qth January there was an interesting deate upon the proposed harbor constructions at Heligoland, for which .£1,500,000 was asked. The Centre De puty Herr Erzberger raised the question "whether it would not be better to blow up thf whole island." After the Secretary of State had made a ] confidential statement with regard to ; the impofarice of tfi c proposed constructions, the vote for the further development of Heligoland as a naval station whs carried against a .small minority, which was e utirely composed of ' Social Democrats. Whatever it lacked in courtesy, the resolution of the Otago Trades and Labour Council with reference to the question of the uniformity of school books makes up' iv vehemence, it is, as a matter of fact, ridiculous to ask the public to dismiss sweepingly and contemptuously a well-considered report against which no argument of any kind, good, bad or indifferent, is raised It may be too much to suggest that th ft Trades Council should invariably observe the ordinary courtesies in its consideration of the questions which engage its attention, but it may justly b e demanded of it that if its conclusions are to receive any weight, it should advance reasons for the faith that is in it— " Otago Daily Times."