Political Notes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7402, 18 September 1902, Page 3

Political Notes.

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.•mh.rs on the Minislcr•ere particularly ra'rtdid referring to tbe future „. jpects of the colony. ■' wan the debate on the prOpoiial to reduce the M . "Mr Tinnier regauled ]-■ 1 concession .as one of |'- 'uhtrly ill-adviiird pro- !» ad ever come before the I'l prosper*r; ahead looked 5s nit* irc'sh sources of re- O be required, and yet If iient proposed to lessen lo one source of revenue. 8, -ceil that a more ill-ad-ion in taxation could _, ;ieen brought before Par- , 1( ■pecially was this so at tn juncture, when, in Die ' borrowing, it was proeduce the revehuc. Mr .< lie further believed that ~ as not far distant when ~ ■would find itself culled ,'j ncrcasctl taxation. Later ate, Sir William llui-sell expressed gratification ~ >mhcrs on Ihe other side ' . use beginning to realise olouy's horrowinu; policy *l ?lv ..fTc'ting its financial ; 'pointed out thai if any lie Opposition had daroil Uiat such thing., were had been foreshadowed bale, he had been (ailed and other opprobrious re hurled at him. Evi•ever, members on the n benches were now realthe Opposition had not prophets, ii unpleasant o IS' COMPENSATION*, presentations were made lg-Preniicr yester day by on as to the necessity ol an amendment of the i .'ompensation for Acel- ( o as tc clearly define the '. agricultural" labourers. ■ Sir Joseph Ward said he \ D. able to introdocc the , saion. It was already on and would set at rest ; existed as to the posl-irm-labourers, and define r which workers shall re.neflts of the Act. TORNEY-GENERAL. criticism on the absence Ministry of nn Altorncy- ( s made by Mr Pirani yes- ; life 'the ' question of the i tween the Audit, nnd the ( is to the payment of a | the widow of the late j mcis was under consider- ( Act, he urged, contcm- , the legal opinion should ( by the Attorney-General by a Minister ot the > would he answerable to for his political ac,by not appointing an e«-ral tbe Government le blame oft the shoulders stry and put it on lo the fa permanent oliicial in of llie Solicitor-General. aclwlcil, anyone was 1o ' the House being called •ritici.se the action of the _neral it was Ministers who bad not enough conhe members of their own ipoint one of them as At_ral. -RESTING RETURN. s presented fo flic I.egis.cif yesterday showed that amount of mortgages in iland on freeholds, registst March last, amounted 5,000. Of this amount was held by companies : having head offices outcolony, while £10,490,000 f companies , etc., with s in New Zealand. A tile by the Advances fo (lice have been included in 3,000. There arc also inthe amount just specified made by banks, insurance etc., which, alt hough, their head offices beyond arc believed to have inNew Zealand funds only, li.sioncr of Taxes points ii purposes of comparison _ foreign (British or Ausand New Zealand capital n mortgage in the colony of £30,746,000 should he 5 follows : Foreign, £15,----?ew Zealand, £21,216,000. cr's Magazine for August Frederick George Kcnyon ;hy so very iew of the he great writers of Greece : have come down in our tho classics we have no ltographs, nor any cpies ltemporaneous with them. of Al__chylus were writ:n -18;. and 450 *I}.C, and it extant manuscript of iw unimportant, scraps exis written in the eleventh interval of some J ,500 Sophocles, for Yhucydiirodotus, the interval is Iy the same ; for Pindar ides it extends to 1,600 Kil, who died in B.C. 19, ted by several manuscripts y be assigned to the fifth )r even to tho fourth. We supplied with early MS. of Scriptures than with early f the classics. The shortaj which separates any luthor from any substancript of his works is some while in tho majority of anges from 1,000 to l",500 tt of the New Testament omplete copies within .2:10 he date at which many of composing it were writtllllon, tho great French authority, has set out in it one of the results of the g birth rate of France. , and apparently proves, cc cannot maintain her ezmy unless her birth rate has published tables hat 481,000 male births in c necessary to supply 330----iripts twenty years aftert in the year IS9O thero f 431,000 male births in id this would produce ouly inscripts at the expiration ar 1919, thus indicating a nd alarming falling off in ig strength of the country.