WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11842, 4 May 1909, Page 4

WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

Britain has always been accounted the friend of the Young Britain and Turkey party and their Turkey. ardent sympathiser m the movement for reform, and with the confirmation of their power, and the downfall of the Sultan, there is little doubt that English iniluence m Constantinople will supersede that of Germany. The development of British trade m, one, of the most fertile countries Of the world should follow from the new relationship. Franco has also b een regarded as strongly sympathetic to the Young Turkey movement, which had some features of resemblance to her own revolution of the eighteenth century, and it is. probable that result of the new Government m Turkey will be to draw closer the , relationship of BVitain, France, and Russia, leaving Germany somewhat irt the cold. — The Dominion.

All well-wishers of tlie town of Napier

<„ ■ ■ must be gratified; at Advance Napier* the situation as now presented by then municipal prospects of the borough. The threatened, ireign of stagnation has been banished, the immediate future of the town is assured, and all that, is required to make the good work, permanent is a resolve on the part of the burgesses that what has been so well begun shall be thoroughly carried through. For what has been achieved the townspeople have m the main to thank our energetic Mayor, Mr J. Vigor Brown. To use'a colloquialism now coining into" vogue, "John Vigor as a real live man." His value as, a citizen can hardly be overestimated. — Napier Telegraph. .■"-'■■■

In his reply to the deputation at Dunedin yesterday, Sir. A' Desirable , Joseph Ward made a Innovation. point .. which should' be %velcomed'"-' as the first harbinger of ...what might prove tq be a desirable innovation. Tlie Government, he said, were prepared to build the Roxburgh railway if the people,, of the- district were av illing- to guarantee the difference, between the intetest on cost of construction and the revenue returns. 'This is a. fair proposal. It will test the bona fides of the people who are urging prosecution of the /work. . A similar might with advantage be applied' to certain other districts /where lack of traffic is and demands for ; concessions are the prevailing conditions. It might also, be introduced Ai'it^r advantage m localities 'thatjjare anxious to see the construction of branch "lilies .under-taken.—-N.Z.-Times.-.- \

New Zealand has fenced round most of 'her local industries Avith Local a fine high tariff" wall, Industries. but the value of this. ; legislative protection is seriously impaired by an ignorance which still induces hundreds of her people to nsk for an ' imported article when nil equally good one of local manufacture is available at the, same, or it may be; a smaller, price. In the infancy of colonial industry, the belief m the superiority of the imported article -was .of course founded on fact, but to-da^ it is to a very large extent a sujiei'stition.: Tho safest antidote to superstition is, the light of fuller lcnowledge, and it is this that the organiseis of -the -Local' JhiduS-' tries Week hope to supply. — Wellington Post, -.

Tho Prime Minister lias never appeared tq greater adyantage Otago Railways, that lie did when'ad^ ' dressing the deputation which waited upon lum In Dunftdin to urge, that the construction of this Jine should bo continued. Dunedin, mas he? said, has been more cursed with political promises for political purposes than has any other N place m the Dominion, and it has been, encouraged to look, to the 'Goyermpent : for , a constant stream of public money. It' must have been an unpleasant task to Sir Joseph Ward to tell a deputation largely composed of his own political friends that he could not grant their request for f tfrtKer favors, but ho performed it witli characteristic tact and m a way that left no shudow of doubt about his mean-j ing. — Lytteltori Time's.