WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9983, 27 February 1894, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

i ♦ ■ (FnoM Our Own Corbespondent.) Wellington, February 26. INDVSTBIAL SCHOOLS. I have reason to believe that the Minister for Education contemplates an important new departure in the management of the industrial schools in the direction of an enlargement of the boarding-out system. The nature of the reform I cannot particularise, but it is of a kind that will, I believe, be warmly welcomed . by the many public spirited and philanthropic ] citizens who so actively identify themselves < with the needs of the helpless infant life of the < community. Legislation will bs required, and i the Minister will at once proceed with the preparation of the necessary measure for presentation to Parliament. JIECIPKOCITY OE REPRISALS. I find that the Premier is much impressed with the importance of the facts he [has had formulated as to the balance of trade values in favour of New South Wales and * Victoria as against New Zealand. These he I attributes to the fiscal policy, of our neighbours, d and particularly to the trade restriction of the c port of Sydney. His Government, he contends, a are willing to establish reciprocal trade rela- 1 tions with any or all of the Australian colonies, t and if New Zealand is to be made to suffer by ? the hostile tariffs of the Continental provinces »! without hope of. any equable adjustment of c customs difference, then I shall not be surprised v if a policy of reprisals is projected. If, it will be asked, Sydney finds in New Zealand, among other things, an open market for her coal, why G should not our grain have a corresponding c advantage of a like value in New South Wales P n " Free oats for free coal" would be a cry that would capture many votes, and would appeal j directly to the farmers, who just now are sorely a in need of wider markets. MR LUKIN'S SCHEME. C The three WeUington papers to-day review 2, editorially the land and loan policy formulated » by Mr Gresloy Lukiu iv an open letter to the E Premier, published in the Otago Daily Times r( of the 19th inst. _^____ n DOLLA.R CIGAKETTES,;3d. — The rice crop of Japan is 5,000,000 tons,