WELLINGTON TOPICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14044, 29 April 1920, Page 1

WELLINGTON TOPICS.

(Special Correspondent.)

THE APPROACHING SESSION. WELLINGTON, April 26. Already there are Indications that tin approaching sessioijr of Parliament will he a long and turbulent. one. A Liberal representative of a southern constituency who is in Wellington juafc now, and who- warmly approves of the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald's conciliatory attitude towards the Government, say's he expects no such, "sporting spirit" from the extreme wing of the Labor Party. He believes there will be bitter and* personal criticism directed by Air Holland and his colleagnes against the Government's administration during the recess and that it will he carried to the extreme lengths permitted by the forms of the. House. He expects to hear a great deal about the Samoa mandate, lioldiers' settlements, cost of living, and industrial conditions. The extremists have got it into their heads that the general election showed them to have a great accession of strength and that they need only _to make noise enough to secure a decisive advance. ■ ' ' THE OLD PARTIES. J)e this as it may. the Labor Party plainly is far and away the most- active of the political divisions in the Dominion at the present time. Henit is holding open-air meetings on every working day ol the week. :and big gatherings in one of the picture theatres every Sunday. Those demonstrations may not mean a great deal ■of progress, but they are keeping the party alive and probably winning a certain uumber of converts. On the other haiid. the Liberals are leaving the Hon. W-.-D..S. Mac Donald to fig In their battles single-handed, and -the are relying upon Mr MasKey and the other occupants of the Treasury benches to hold the fort on their account. Mr 'Edioi received no assistance from the Liberal leaders, beyond their goodwill, in winning the. Bruce seat, and Mr Masters is receiving none in the stiff fight he is carrying on at Stratford. Fortunately for his party the. latter gentleman seems well able to take care of himself. THE HOUSING PROBLEM. The Labor Party's gathering yesterady was devotod to a discussion of the housing problem, and the speakers, in addition to finding it a very congenial subject, had no difficulty in producing a number of "horrid examples.'' One of them quoted riie case of eight families living in one eight-roomed house. and i{escribed the preparations for lhevisit of the Prince of Wales us a '•wicked waste." The authorities, he said.•were* showing a great deal more concern for the luxurious entertainment of one Prince than for the bare, necessities ol thousands of women and children. Another speaker, who processed to be acquainted with the poorest quarters of the big cities at Home, declared they contained no slums worse than those existing in Wellington. Mr P. Fraser. the member for Wellington Central, said the conditions in the city .were a disgrace to humanity. The sail I part of all this is that it has very real | foundation in fait. * ' j

GOLF NOTES. (By Midirou.) It is readily conceded that Miss Wright, of Timarti, is the ablest- lady exponent of golf in the Dominion. It is further conceivable that her standard of play is higher than anything yet seen in ladies* championship ' tournament : some of us have wen her play nuinberlesh times—have frequently played with her in friendly four-ball contests, and found her a very- tough proposition, contesting every Jiole with the best of us. Nature has endowed her with the golf instinct, and if her finished .style has been attained by any muside influence, it may in a large measure- be- credited to her two brothers, whose easy, graceful, and natural style of play places them in the v?ry foreground of South Island golfers. As showing the high standard ot Miss Wright's play she was able to accr.unt for Miss Gambrell (runner-up) in the late New Zealand ladies' championships. Jn emphasising the Jatter lady's play the following may fie instanced. In a contest at New Plymouth after the Easter tournament she put up a new lady's record for the links, putting in a card of 84 (bogie <2). The details of her round are v.orthv of perusal and are given below: —Out.— NoV Yards. Bogie. Score. 1 2-16 ...: 4 4 2 330 5 4 3 122 3 . 4- ' 4 423 .': 5 5 5 250 5 o 6 3 a o 6 6 7 105 3 5 « 446 6 5 0 418 6 5 43 43 —ln. No. Yards. ' Bogie. Score. 10 95' 3 6 11 200 4 4 12 SO :. 3 - 3. 13 292 5 ' 4 14 201 4 4 15. 440 6 4 16 122 3 4 17 352 5 5 18 39S - 6 7

Dr Ross, of Dunedin, one of those dashing, hard-hitting players, whose golf came, with him from the Land o' Cafcos. is just about the topmost player in the Dominion at the present time, and nothing more interesting could be witnessed than a contest between him and Duncan, the recognised leaMing amateur golfer in New Zealand. Playing at Balmacewen for the Qtago Golf Club's championship. Dr ' Ross displayed the same brilliant form- as tie lias done of late, his long driving and, pntting bfing perfect. He finished up the first nine holes in 36. well under bogie, and beat his opponent 5 up and 3 to play. _ Kksted. a Palmerston erack at the K;istor Tournament at ' Taranaki showed what a long driver he is. He got the 18th areen (400 yards} twice in one day. 7n a chat with liim he thought he had to thank Hockey for the development' of his- wrist, which gave the necessary snap iust at the conta-t of the club and ball. if golfers will experiment on wrist snai). they will find there is a good deal in it. as it cjives an impetus to the liill which adds probably 20 yards to the distance, comparecLwith the same stroke force and timing without the wrist, finish. Sneaking of Mr .1. H. Kirkwood, the nrofessional golf champion of Australia, who mav be induced to visit New Zealand shortly, Mr John Tait wiid that if ever there was a born golfer it. was this man.- "He is only a younrtsaid Mr Tait, "but his allround skill in driving.- approach shots, and putting .ire at once the envy and iftsnair'of other players. He-is out on \\U own. and those who know predict that he will •be a world's cnamnion. An effort was made some time avro to get Yardou to come out to Austral!" to meet Kirkwood, hut'the veteran E'lL'lishmpn could not• b» induced to make th» long_ vovnge. _ There are znm a fin» "layers in Victoria and New Ponth Wales! but Kirkwood is sometb'na commands the crowd when he is on the links." '*! Zeus i When you n'nc mv knell, • TVer"'* of me rot s> frozen hell! ■Por Tf to 'twill hj" the same, T*r? far nrefer a hell of flame.' : f tbt- unrelenting hate 't«i that alone it? lust can sate. Grant me. to make mv fate allure. A gross of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.