THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 118, 24 June 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

ENGLISH LAND TAXES. The land taxes are a ludicrous .failure. They cost much and they yield little, and the Chancellor is forced again to depend largely on the income tax, which, for all its advantages, is necessarily an impost on enterprise, industry, ami thrift.- There is no relief whatever for the middle-class man. He must still pay his ninepence in the pound, a heavy burden which has to be met in one payment, and Avhich in the majority uf cases exhausts all possible savings. Certainly the rebate for each child on incomes, under iive hundred has been raised from seven and sixpence to fifteen shillings, but this sounds very nice and actually means very little.— " Express. " AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE PROBLEM.

It has been recognised for some time that the defence system was defective just where it broke down at Liverpool (N.S.VV.), that is, in organisation and direction. More ollicers and more experienced officers than we can expect to develop for some time are wanted; so are more instructors. Whether they should be brought from Great Britain —a plan which, to-day's cables report thai* Canada is adopting for the new reserves —is a matter for enquiry. There is no question, however, that for want of them the system, as a developing one, is almost stuck up. If the preparation and the instruction and control are faultv, what can we expect of the foree in whole?—" Daily Telegraph." PEACE FOR ULSTER?

Peace, as we have said, is in the air! No more than that, but decidedly in the air. If peace comes to Ulster it wiii «--,- indeed be peace with honour, for abundantly clear that, unless she 3KjUh\<sf-.vf? demonstrated to the full her power'a^AV^" o : her determination, to fight for the tilings •**%"* which she holds most dear, her Üb&isgg».''V<; would have been sojid as part otit&ife-yiu i : price for holding a cynically l^j '. txinist Government iu ; '.power,—p^^fe^f^