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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)

The New Zealand and African Steam-* ship Company has nominated the steamer Buteshire as the June steamer for South Africa. Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru and Port Ohallmers will be the loading ports. The steamer and ports of call have been approved by the Department of Industries and Commerde.: The Marlborough Farmers’ Union has passed a resolution declaring “ That the laws relating to the liabilities of employers are too numerous, oomplicat-. ed, and unjust, and the time has arrived when they should be remedied.” The resolution is to he forwarded to the executive of the union. Mr A. Hobson, chemist, of Upper Willis street, and Mr C. Harris leave on a trip to America by the Sierra, next month, and will visit the St. Louis Eis* position. e Many complaints are being made t»f the accommodation provided at several hotels and accommodation-houses on tourist routes in various parts of the colony. A writer to the “Lyttelton Times ” complains of the lack of accornmodation at Bealey—that elevated house of call between the West Coast and Canterbury. In a footnote to the letter the editor of that paper states that the accommodation-house is maintained by the Grovei-nment. This is incorrect. The Government has nothing / whatever to do with the conduct of the house. The death is reported of Mr George Lloyd, a very old Napier resident, at the age of seventy-thi’ee. Deceased was formerly proprietor of the Tavistock Hotel, Waipukurau. VVe are bearing much jusx now of the parolus state of the Bi'ifcisb drama (says the “St. James’s Budget”), But if modern drama is moribund, Shakespeare, we are told, is dead, buried, and mouldeiing in the grave. With what a joyful shock, then, do we hear that the bard still lives —in Shoreditch. “Much Ado About Nothing” has lately been performed in several London town-halls. Spine Shoreditch shopgirls having seen it in their own hall, actually sent a message to friends in Bermondsey, urging them not to miss seeing.the piece. And this without scenery too. It is a crushing blow for the section that pooh-poohs Shakespeare as a stage investment, declaring that he can only be tolerated with “stars’’ and scenic effects to wash him down- I'or, after all, it is.from Shoreditch and Bei-mondsey that the final verdict comes, and if these held off the higher criticism can only wring its hands and go to Daly’s-