THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 53, 8 April 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

CHEAP MIDDAY CABLES. There might be a system of cheap midday cables, just as there are cheap deferred cables, which would ,meet the needs of the ordinary private person; where they did not suit the business man. It ds to the interest of everyone coneerried> to get the greatest possible amount of work out of the cable, and then there will be no excuse for not reI ducing rat'es and keeping them reduced. —''Daily?.^Telegraph'' (Sydney). [■TWO IRELANDS. Any arrangement which- tended to build up. t^ v o Irelands intead of one would be a fjital mistake. Sir Edward Carson has Said that the Nationalists must win Ulster —that is, that they must give practical demonstration that it is possible for the Protestants of the North to live in political association with the Catholic South and West. That proof can only be given by practical trial. If the two are divorced now they will never come together. The severance will become stereotyped, and the consequences will be disastrous to the. whole future of the country .- :: - "News and Leader." NAVAL EXPENDITURE. Anything that lowers the quality of the British fleet at such a critical time is to be deplore'd. The cost of the manasuvres does not exceed £500,000, or 1 per cent. ,of the Estimates. It is a mere drop in the ocean of national expenditure. To save this paltry amount the efficiency of the fleet is being impaired and the safety of this country and the Empire hazarded. —/'Daily Mail.' ' LABOUR IN N.S.W.

Since a number of the country constituencies turned "Labour" at the last election, they can scarcely be expected to be pleased at the use to which their support has been turned. It is perhaps not altogether an evil that the Labour Ministry lias been returned to worry through its financial difficulties itself. Prosperity continues, aud Mr Holman declines to reduce expenditure; but a few adverse seasons would entail serious financial consequences, unemployment, aiul —"Australasian."