NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12746, 18 March 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The inter-collegiate Old Boys football tournament will be played afc Trafalgar Park on Easter Saturday and Easter Monday. The teams participating will be Nelson College Old Boys, Wellington College Old Boys, and Christchiirch High School Old Boys. ' In connection with the application for a writ of prohibition restraining Mr H. "VV. Bishop, S.M., from adjudicating upon any or all of the informations laid by Win. M. Tyers, inspecting accountant of the Income Tax Department against Bowroil Bros., of Christchurch (a Press Association telegram from- Christchurch received last night states) it is understood that by the consent of the parties the application will be moved into the Court of Appeal, which opens its sittings at Wellington on April 4th. A general meeting of subsciibers to the Sunfey memorial fund will jbe held in the Hampden. street schoolroom this evening tit eight o'clock. . A Tuapeka West settler, Mr Robert JJall ? received the other day what is considered a record price for a sheep skin— namely, 12s 6d. It was taken from a two-tooth wether, which had escaped tie shearing, and jhad an excellent growth of wool. The Dunedin electric tramways for the year ended March 2nd shows receipts £65,799 ; working expenses £29,398; giving a return of over 9 per cent on a capital expenditure of £300,000 (says a Press Association telegram). The revenue shows an increase of £2522 over the previous year, whilst the mileage run shows an increase of 7798 miles. The total number of passengers was 11,380,472. This has been the. most successful year since . the inauguration of the service. t An English newspaper states that a particularly disgraceful and cowardly libel" has been circulated to the effect that the Radical candidate for Enfield is a Polish Jew. This reminds the "Pall Mall Gazette" of the acquittal of a Russian last year on a charge of manslaughter on. the ground that the murdered man had called him an Englishman. The emphatic pronounce aent of Lord Kitchener regarding. \he interdependence of Australia fid New Zealand in respect of def. ace wiJl raise a doubt concerning -, ie completeness of the wisdom of .he policy to which the dominion is < ommitted on the subject of naval de ence. If the fortunes of the Common wealth and the Dominion are so clo ;ely interknit that bheir schemes of land def ence_ must be framed on I homogeneous lines, there is surely ti.e greater reason why they should ac ; in combination in the defence of tl eir shores against a hostile fleet. — "O. ago Daily Times." ' - The pretentious raising of the interest supposed to be earnrd by the national railways upon total cost of construction falls only upon the North, for the South cannot even earn the £3 per cent set as sufficient by Sir Joseph. Ward when he held | the Railways portfolio. Yet we have forty-one North Island members in Parliament, while the South Island has only thirty-five members, so that we could obtain justice at one© if our members took the trouble to demand it unanimously. — "New Zealand Herald.". One day last week a commercial traveller who had business with a tradesman in Tuam street, near Colombo street, left his horse and trap outside (says the Christchuroh 'Press') and when he came out a quarter of an hour afterwards there was no sign of them.. On Tuesday Constable Bird arrested two youths on the road to Haniner, who were driving what are alleged to be the missing horse and trap. If public opinion had sympathised with the New South Wales strikers the mischief might have spread further, but it declared against the men, and thus- tbo one. condition that was necessary to their success was lackjng. The terrible price which th?y "have had. to pay will not have been sheer loss if they have learned that arbitration and not war is the way to settle these troubles^ and bint a wages board_ or arbitration court is the ideal tribunal, and not a strike, committee. The policy of the emergency legislation under which Mr Bowling and other of the strike leaders have been sent to gaol is, .of course, quite a different thing. We have already expressed "our opinion upon it, and the Commonwealth electors may be expected, to express theirs at the polls next month. — "Evening Post." With regard to the crisis in Britain, provision lias not only to be made for part of the period covefea by the last Budget, but fresh revenue will have to be found. Is tariff reform going to meet the requirements? Even its most sanguine advocates could hardly jfexpect it to. .What course, then, :would the unhappy Mr Balfour follow, even if he got a majority at an election, a result it is almost impossible to anticipate? With the task before him of finding many millions of revenue and the prospect of temporarily taking office in a House so hostile that supplies would he refused, his prospects are even more discouraging than those of Mr Asquith. — "New 'Zealand Times." Our shop window is a fair index — but not one-20th part of our stock can be shown. Come in. ; — Brown, and Kerr* • Presents for. men ! Match boxes — sovereign cases — watches — pendants :• — shaving outfits — military hair brushes. — At Brown and Kerr's.* :' Victoria has! spent £2,500,000 on irrigation works, and is at the present time losing £2000 a week on !them. \ liadies v who- are in doubt as to colour and fabric for their autumn and winter costumes will find theii difficulties quickly solved at Mrs Anstice's, where, a selection «f the newest weaves has just been ope-n---!ed up. These lovely materials are all markedly reasonable in price, though the quality and style of each one is so superior. Call in and get some patterns. You'Jl find what you want here.* • If you^ require the highest grade butter made on the latest and most approved principles, ask for "Victory," which is sweet and palatab'e, and take no other.*