PASSING NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 4

PASSING NOTES.

vl'io.ii Sj.tnr-.jj - I'.;!j I'liiio.-.) Fio'p tLe stir tnpt Anarchi.-ts an i SiJciali-Lo ;ii' ni'tkii!^ c>'<?v the e\eriii.io>. of Ffj-ier it imj.t "to i. :eire<i that Few- 1 : was of ejieot u:ir.o>-la:i. p to t}"--". rmd that i." losing Mm ihcy .-iv hard Lit. 'i.fch;.:>c.« ai» n.:ii until ho t. ;k- i l >ot *j\of thy. 'ii h.-'d ever hed/d of Fcirer. Any })roi'_\L Iji' o iiti\ jSi/l, oTioii aj ; j they prO'--iiLC'l with ;i \i ?tfxt iv '--.re. By :t;: t ; tenx. .lr'.oi. . ;,]t] ii]-HK!;_ed t-e\enty th^ Spaiii^li Go\e. > nm 1 .-nr hue pkivrd into their h^uU It i- ...io t!-.,t ipmcn httle \<r A h:n' wh.it i-iii'tw-* V,.cov o c-i a po!;ii'-nl cxccmion ,-n ]'in j!on-i tht.e 'ire nots in P.'i-is nnrl at Mi. an; 1-io-re has to i;jj to bed :»»' the /J.uJ;. iiuinv. cys slop at Buenos Aiie«. ,T.d in London ,Vr VLtac (i-iu\. ••■)•, that i:Li.rot'f paiod> of An - i-linr-is Cloi-i/. dc-.u, ,vis tho lie.'-i of Kin; E-.iw.irJ VI T. ."V'nch of this is mc.v Cliv d\ ; th). it; vwi^ a <;<-od deal ibat \.-js conuc ill 'he a..v, of ihf Farnoh l'ovol-.-tion. T:.^-« A»aifhis.t <.-r>m<<K,i!]= mo;i1'1 -et <m -i P.tiini «t Tt'.-roi if tb^y conid, 1.0 i?oabt. c'ikl it w rot so corl.i'iii that here -md tli'_>e tl.ey >,i;^. not succeed. lo j lovci ii l n c\,.:k^ of Kins. Atphonru by a i !itfc-])i>i-,i ,]i;-t now wooid bankuipt th^ 1 ."sp."ii Ii ti^d.sur\ . , ! — I | Our P.i.t^h way. ni-d doLibiV >. -J ° I l)3tt?" way. liMugh jt o.i/zle- ConUnjut,'! j (Jovr nr.nonm -.ol a little. ].- to let tht> levjlutiotM'.y denngn^ue talk hm-pol/ oml. !•' t'iv- thai, or to give him ,a b'iiet. ' Pmb..biy i;ie ;,x ,-t C'oi 'jor\jti\ c .member , of th° n.-rsenl ii.jii.-ijv is Mr Joim j JJti.n.. — who at '>r.e t';iie- \vn.> in }>i i-ou ' km •■omtthinq l^ot \<i-\- unlike high c roa- j ■•op. A- i lUi'c p):ii:-;i! explo«i\os a^e ' ■ I'tn^^i'oi 1 -; only mi !e. (•■imijt'et-ioa \lu<ic j iya.-tyi.-, M.r Victor (I'tvvoii ard .Mr Klt [ ilairii- mi.aht bc:o:vri a jtril to ihe State, | r ont^inptuou-ly b'l't to say their '.ny ; they £!i--' meifiy .' pair of political '< scaie. . j\\.-. arm' lldii ulons. Mr Keir ' Haidie lia.i just adir.oni^iifd the Kin^ ho'n a Hyde Park stump that j it ho (the Kii'tr) nit'c'dlcs in i!u lJi(ri'_,c. l di.-cu--io i. th" Clown, a^ w<o as i!io Ho 1 , c mi Lord-. <- ' » n 1 1 '" t,o iii:o thi> inplt- ! ii» ; ■/!. " It mi^ht )h> scirl in j-.dv ib;-l I fie tbf K'ntr's noun no down th?re'i! be i c.'.ir. t'j be bin'o. Dut it i- wmtli ' robody*>. >\In!" i.i ■-■ .\ it. r J'ieio »■• mo. • j point in u-'iienilunny tiiat Mr Kt-ir Har.ii-".-, la>-t Li i<»\ jinfc- -lu-rin-t the Kmjj - In-, la ~t before z\v> liic^ent ore- wo.* ti'.it i'-p b,-,d not becii inviltd to a 1 .; \\ o.ird-no .ird-n j psi;\.

The )<o!k\ ot ftc-.'o!"i - !i'>- .v |>is-iie<i to Ven-.— :sea >p"tc l i. a h<e it:"--, .imi "let t'prni -ivr' 1 " i-iv", vcl 1 ( ii >v. 'h within t!ie Uiitish I.=les. and is cs-enti;:l to < i.i (omloi; lu-:e ii) N- w Ze i'-h:<! lint it do>-:i'i (!(> in Kgypt. ;iirl It do --a : (In in lii'li ■. K^yjil nnd India :ite l<-.<> uo'wU-r niii'za/.ir.L'-.' jih! \on Mont u.ii'i Wvo ni«tch<\- about in n .i»« tk'i 1,1 ;:. i ;riT':s p'4i-oi(:is J\->;i U u<]ie lin- v-.-pUfr. :i bvi-i'i iibo'-.l In Im. mi v;i'«li boo* he nifhiik- liiiuiv-t jliii'i n-fiKlai it)f > th'"The 1.. iM=h fire l^pon-ilile i.v i umi:" and v! m.v-. vbii.li Loiio— did not ocvv t , ,>. a:.,, " 'lc cVt.'Mt 1" )HT-]11.t.-il da%-. • MctvlaciK IJJ Ic.tH it' Theie I- \i .-h')Ue. wnid, a •.. oitl in *-o»'.i« 1 ' t-iwts pief(*-:ibK v, e<<i it l.ot t' at '•.!•<• note oi tins .ohscm i- Vu exthMio and T.i.mlilmi- M,-Kt.-5v My n>oLf.) 1-. I!--nuiik'— '• Pi-itect i..jbtorn-s to t!u' vr-iy loot of the -a' low-. lut hun-i :<il iii" „ - So the m-n- H:ml.i* M-nfi-.' i.bf)M' -hall lot n? a lie. i.'.r ovt-n a iven-d-.-i-.itv. bal a icnuinoloa.ca! im^-iti tude Ino p.i- a-p th«l I Si*/ n-.M >- i.i^ei.t- noting n \^- l^ 1 "' I ."^ lll:i '' [.imi me 1 ;>rul pu/,'. ! e-hc:"l>- f l'i* - "* it is <aV,.Utcl 4 hat 11. p Bni-i-U capital m%e=-ed ,n lml -a m "»^»y«j underlain .,»- o: '.uuous kmcU anKimts to ioOD.OOM W.l 'l'hat (.I itself, at o n-r cent .nlciot. rcpre-eni.3 a buideu u-,cm India of Lio OIO.D'j J a yeai. !>* a" burden I inciu thai Hie iiiccre- Ipaid to tha bondhoVlei- :-i tlm count, y. <md n not therefore bc-nch'.ii'i,' the people iiom v.horn it »« taken On this the comment of Hie Spectator is Miflkicnt, ii comment at all be wanted: The mind reels at the wionghcacled-ne-s and parvorsitj — or is it only ignorance, as we should prefer to believe (it? — of such a statement. The money for which interest is di**"^ >* J «ot to

[India for tlie carrying out of public ■works indispensable for the progress and ; comfort of the country, and they could not have been carried out if the money had not been provided. The only remark I care to add is thai Socialist political economy is ali on tin ; Keir Ha "die leve' of intelligence. ! Anent the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway the ( rover nm-ent in its tergiversations [ (Lut., ttir^iwrtari, to turn vonr back or j yourself) has come round again to its .": i jvr cent, policy. The Lawrence-Roxburgi ■\wll bs requued to pay 5 per cent, or capital cost. It may bs paying 30 pc: I cent, in £er\ic^s to the whole population. ! n-oith and south : but that will not count. [ It must pay 3 per cent, in freights and fares. Any falling-short of 3 p«r cent. \r. i! eight-* and fares the Lawrence-Roxburgh district will I>3 required to make up. V«srv 1 well: ] iiCL^pt the prineijjle, and am p-epared to apply it all round. J-hcoep£ on this piir.eiple let tL^ie be no railwari; an\\\htjic. nor any loads and bridges; no whane-. brrakwaters. lighthousei- ; v mi! --übsidi^~ : no \otive Dreadnoucrhts >r other contributions to tha Nayy — no no thin^ on which we can't tollect a 3 por ( ci t. nione\ rotui ;i iS<>xt. salaries, fo" it i- inipj-sible to discriminate between pa'iiirs a.ul other expenditure. Everything i.m-t he regulated by iho sar.ie ben^hesnt vu\s. Will ,Sir Joseph Ward, then, kindly I'uinish a return showing where and how we ;;et back our 3 per cent, for the money we *p»iul on him? Of course, 't will not be pretended that Mr Carroll repay.-, 5 per cent, on -Milky, or Mr Buddo. The.c gL.it'einen. ther?foi«, fall under fc.ie Lav lencL-Ro-xb^rgii rule, and will ha\e to initlvL up tliL* deiicit. Sir Jo»epK % s voting jv irhinej. at £SCO a year and a railway p.i'-s m? a ;nil;.-r hid t isc — a_s bad as the Ot u'o Central, and woi>?. We do get £oiiK> f'.Mctuiual percentage from the Otago Cential ; but from these political dea'dht.id-, ruui dumb do,a- we «-et not a stiver. I ib'i't j-retond to b?, a fiiend and wejl \\i>her of the jii- s>-'iit Government, but [ ciin i-dt'ier good at advice gratis. My ad vice t.i .Sii Jo.>jph i?. — ;vhen once' you hi\c hit upon a ctec?nt ptinciple of action Jtpjjly it .-fli round, ttick to it, and camit throrgh. Wel'in^t .n. in one of his despatches from the Pemn^uh.' dpscribe'd hinieelf as II be jj-ini.ig to be of opinion that there is rowing on earth so stupid' £A a gailaa', olHcor. " yoip = -)ne hnd blundcrtd/ us, t vt n in tiio-e dav-. romeone occa'-ionaHy did. J am m.-t now in the miiTd "tb- say thdl liotliir,; on earth, can be s-o .silly as .1 p ; otis e mangel ii-al, — layman 1 or cleric. A • hn.'iJi ;i England clergynian iar - jfbe Xot-'.ii lil\".d, i'aving lao.~ed into I'lieb-.-•ophyi. confides to the public that /' only r^tent'y a man h >d told him that in tho light >of th-o d'icirir.e 'of reincarnation i.h--» 59 Articles of the Church were ni'ifee fe.6 lievab'e." I lead thus to mean that h-3 lia-d mes.-er ("out 1 tlieni quils beiievable mmstjlf, bat row had hopes. becaufeCol whrt '" .1 man lnd tokl him." ■ 'The auth<-«i(y --cciii.~ wfa!<; but let not h'.s brotlii-r clerics d--«pi.~e it." They rnay'ye't uiuncle lhc:ngc-tvcrr to- the VoTty-» Swrijisi ?ii\ 2 Oi\c by help of Mrs Besant. Also k-{ th"in no'e that mder th,e guidance of th»o-op!iy " life will 'altogether become cleanc"" — municipal baths a.--.-i.^tin^. perhip<. in the ca^e of the great unwashed ; that in my thiny-i now thought fads — \ dgei v i.«m--ii', for irelance — arc " onh p:ut ot tho coii!-m> civilisation"; that ' jiiLc i eating will gradually dihai>p"ar " — 'ui'l al >,'.g n ith it tho frozen mutton t.acl^. All of which is to say that the Xoith Lihmd clergxinan i-. a bit ot a soid?. That canifot be helved. Hut it was not nece^ary to publish the fact >n tiie i;i_\\.MJapei>>. Pa^ we now to the proceeding-, of the P.uina\>"'M (. u-iwitiun. a brotlwiliood or l v.iti'.-ji'l'c.il- h!u yi-ar by year at iilkn k joi-.dkc tho \»fiid and tetnv int-j ti'j \> ilfterr.-e^s in tiie \iciiiity ! t Catlin's Rivei. Their printed pio- j -.<-»'• I-, f.lf annouuci l- M.-c u.t^- at 1 v. lut ii ihe M'auigiii" C'ommulee w ili • •H ( >l>!\ " pitched tent;- and stiau,' eon .iiiii-'i ihu>— Ailer 1 rjyerful iv «idcrafio.i tile cf.mmittce h<i\p df-ided to erect a kitchen a.vi pitdi a dnirit tent on the "round iccentiy yctjiurect by thr.u on hchal! of (ho C< nwntß.il, ami io provide meals at the fallowing: 'ates to Holder? of the t'dii . ciitioii meal »r-kot — \i/ • 'Ihiee day^' t.ukct .:3th to 27th). IQs. J-cvcn 'JaU' tukei (Jsth to Ulsti. lCs Tin- a'oo\e entntL", the holder to break-ia-t dinner, ;-nd tea for the days spccih"M on the ticket Th r.-t-. (.an be liad on api/l:cihon to oc-ieiiiry Ajru*. whi'li p eonespondent writer: — It 'is suL'^ested that it mi«ht be do-ira')V iliat prayi-rfn! coiis-idoratif-n -)i mid l>e to tlio question of the €)•«■}, a i'l ra'-tiPtiWy to ;lio queftion o[ ul.i-'Jiei hih. nettid i>" unlicensed .hik'pks. should hiid a „'?.ce on the hi «;4 f a--t 'id'j'e L.i-t \eni oni- of the Coinentioni^ta. and i i>i:i!i of law at that, was haled to couit h;ii if nryhl exphi'i to the wc.ithy beak i .-in of iy:ioranc<- in unlawfully netting i-h dining the int' s ivn!i> of do\otion. It uas a -in ot ignoranc 1 . as I say, and j Mii-ab'j : but he was lined ;>ll the tame, j : should lu've thought tint a p?ople who } :>:ay-rfully consider the electing of a citf'u-ii -ni^ht ha»-e been fapired this trial , ;o the ; r faitli. fakon on its own show- j nc the 1 ounaivra Convention piove.s <-nco < it,'ain that ahhoni;li religion itself can- j lot be ui.ide r.diciil&ii-> (thanks be 1 )- ! i;*;p are pot j>!o .vlio in tho act and miclo 'it ] iole-.sini; it become lidicu'ous leyond worda. Thi> come?,- of our^e, of heir ghastly want of humour

Kxplaining to themselves and in par'cvpldininjj aw.iy the failure of English ( ticket in this year's test matches, some of the Engli&h papers are amusing. For the Saturday Review the merit of Ili3 Australians is comparative only, not posi tive. Both sides ■ were bad, th« Australia— - J^-vu loan liq^l than the others.

J " Amtr-ilia has bsen lucky in finding, I when herself weak. English cricket stiJl ! weaker. ' In the National Review wa are told that the successes of the Australians '* cannot be ascribed to any preponderating ability on their part, but to the curio as way in which they seamed to indue* every opposing side to play far below its ri-al form." Also that "half the count l y huuse ' tearus. in England would have "knocked the" covet off the balls .bowled by the Australians.' 1 This strikes me, who am of neither part, neither Tn» nor Tyrian, as ungracious- and absurd. On the whole, however, "the Englisa papers. are fair. - <-. '" Not on ' a single issue,' ox in one direction or twain. ! But loonclusivfly, compsehensively, and ! teveyal tiniss and .agaiii, "Were '-all our most holy : " illusions knocked higher than GiilS-erqy'a -kite. We Itave hac^ a jolly gpocC }esso:i,, and i' serves, us jolly wsll. xtglrt! This -is the correct fohei-ino doubt, and it^ is-the tone of tha 'pi;ess generally. Speaking for myself, 1 acknowledge with. Fhame th* keenness with which I eead the cricket cables, it -is; the racing instinct. - the faoihuted gaze with which one watches any competitive 'Struggle. I cannot better illustrate it than by tha following little story :—: — t >, . ■ \ ' ! A rpigeoti-faucier :<m - J Ms deathbed 1 c^tqq)' under the R<sod T influence of a clergynjan, and one day .the dying man' . r skeel him wbethex tlfore >«as any chance of lim going to Hs«.ven. Hhe clergyiu?.n reassur^ him on the point. " And ■ will you go there too?" asked the pig'ecn-fancier. " I sincerely fcope so," ■was the reply. '" And shall we boih ba arigeis "rf^f* 3iiya /wings; -minister?" was.tha next question. " Yes," was the reply. The man was - silent for a ' moment, thsn he said eagerly, "I'll tall you whnt it is. minister ; I'll fly ' you for a sovereign when we get 'there!"

1 During" the past season there hnve been plan tod in Chisholm Paik. which is adjacent to ,T<*huna Park, about , 4000 young trees and ehrubs. In about two years, j when <hese have obtained a firm hold in 1 the ground, the work of levelling off the park wilt- be put in hand, and tho 36 acces which it comprises, portion of which will be "made ?into focrtball grounds, -will",- in course ■of time, form an ideal recreation ground:' , ! Employers are somewhat exsreised in. 1 mio"d.ovpr''two bills" that have been brought' before- t^fliament, thi^. .session by v privat» v members. One is a Sunday Labou? vßili," introduced ly Mr Fisher, and tli3 other ; , en. Educarion Amendment Bill, for which' Mr T K.'Sids* is ■•esponsiblo. The Ehihday^ Labour Bill proi-oocs that any employee who js ret.uiied to \vox - k on Sunday shall .be allowed 24 consecubve hours off, without labour.* during the next six days of such wcok. This, of course. if ( jriyen effect to, would, -it i« maintained, me-an a.coiapl-eta O>C» — *-itltng o£ -metziy- ~o£ tile awaros^i tna Arbitration Court. In such awards as these affecting' seamen, ferry companies, freezing companies, dairy factories, traThwaysj^add uewspapsr offices special concessions ph'ava been given for work done on Sundays? aft*r full inquiry by the court. .This bill, an employer seated yeslerday, not only proposed an impossible condition, but would ho a i^eoss infceiference with the Arbitration Act In vssard to Mr Sidey's bill, it is proposed that an employer shall be compelled to allow apprentices to attend a continuation class for three hours per week | for a period of 40 weeks in every year Thi-< time would b<3 given during business hours, and at tiir^ expense of the employer, who, for failure to comply wirh the provision, would be liablo to a j^nalry of £2. An employer slated that he considered tha bills were of a somewhat drastic nature, and that ihe.-e «as not much probability of enher of the measured being placed upon the Statula Book this jear. * Wo aro in receipt of Xo. 1 of the Danna\iike Evening News, first published on the 16th in-^t. It contains -eight pages and * four-j>i<je supp'fniani. The politics of tho Etening News are those of the Reform party, though it is added that when the Administration deserves well of the coun* tiy the papei will do it justice. Employers thioughout New Zealand, cay« the annual report of the Wellington Builders and Contractors' Association, are, in consequence of recent decisions and utterances in the Arbitration Court, reconsidering the glancing of preference fo unionist . Resolutions have been adopted by various associations of employers that they should riot agtxe to pieference under any eireurttstanee*. This will be 'ho policy of tha a.-sociation wherever practicable in tha futuie. Speaking at the meeting of the newly"biMicd Swimming Club on the 19th, Mr J. M'Donald said that Mr Richards (town clerk and cily cncrineei) was against Dunedin hating public tepid baths He looked at Uie question from a financial etandpoint. The citizens wanted the baths, and icoked at it from a health standpoint. The timo might come when the country found iteolf implicated in a long and tedious war. Wa should not b«3 short of monsy for Dreadnoughts, but we might find ourselves short of strong, healthy fighting men The frlercantilo G&zstto reports that Messrs Alfred Anderson, Peter Barr, James Brown, James Farquharson T. S. Graham, Walter Green, T. K. Harty, and C. H. otathaiii Jiave been nominated as Candida* <■» for election as members for the Otago district of the first council of the New Zealaad Society of Amounts -itj».