THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918. NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7674, 22 January 1918, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918. NOTES.

'I ln.t ('oiiinii 11 1 it i ul the I imam Aanil I’. Association (leeide.l by a, majority to recommend at its annual me,. I ina I hat. Hie Show lie held in l lie autumn instead of in ilia spring, a.s at pres, n(. II (iocs not by any means follow that- ilia annual meeting will endorse (his view. If it, does it, will be. (he aulnnin of HUM before it can, be given oil tic I to. ’I hoi members of the Toniuka and (ler.i-l'dmn Aanil I’. Awsocial inn, wlios . Show at Winchester is held in the anlunm, are speculating as l-o tins clhiet a eliaiign of (.hit 'l'imarn system -till Jya’-’ii on their Show. It goes wilhoat. saying that there is nothing *io pre- \< nI the Timaru Association from making ■this- change if a. majority o r tnumhoi'sj desire it, bat in fairness ito the Winchester Show the dales would In mutually arranged so as mil In clash. Acre (hey held within a week or a fort night, of each other, each would probably benefit, from the point of view of the exhibition of stock and produce. The amount of j reparation necessary for the oik) , would cnab.c exhibitors to show at I Ini other wit hout, much additional I trouble or e.xpenie. Tim point is not so clear whether the fanning community and thise who like to attend • Shows would willingly spend two days in seeing what to a large extent would be the same s"t of cxc.xhibits. Some no doubt would prefer to see Liie bulgur Show at r''iiiianii, while others would favour the Show- nearer their own homes. ’I Inis both Shows would suiter. IT would be a pity if anything were done, to hurt the Winchester Show, v Inch is now well established as an Autumn Show. On the other hand, there is no law to prevent the 'llmaru people from altering the.r system. A trial ot the experiment is lhe only means of testing whether those two Shows would be materially hurtful or bctiutielal it both were held In the autumn. j Last session of '.Parliament the Lower House passed an amending measure of our, conscription law whereby teachers. and ministers of religion were lo be exempted from service. The 1 piper House refused la agree to Lids amendment of the law. Several conferences of managers ol both Houses were held, but in live end l.lie Upper House throw Hie [measure out, leaving tho law of the Doitlinion as it waa when, tin; t'ons;-ri:> lion Act was Jirsk, passed, that leach* e'rs and ministers of religion were liable for-'service, lie pass no opinion on tile merits of inis law. That is, not 1 our point. Tin: chairmen of the .Military . Service Hoards have decided that they shall lollow the custom in 1 ireu't- Britain, and have agreed lo - hear these cases and adjourn them ' sine die. The .Minister of Defence, ■when his attention was drawn to Hus i procedure, said that he was In agree--1 mint with the proposed action oi ' the .Military Service Boards. In eli’ecl. ‘ it means that they are arrogating To themselves the functions of Parliament. That is the serious side of Hie matter. Parliament, i't seems, may make laws, -which Military Servlet ■Hoards may override. We feel sure 1 that the sentiments of all law--1 abiding subjects will be somewhat shocked at such a ■. proposition. M a !do not discuss tho merits of the law as. it stands, but Parliament idono can unmake the laws which ! Parliament iva ; ■ made. That thuse | Hoards have, (he sanction of the Minister of Defence in the action .they

luiv’o taken is no excuse for their action. He fancy (hat next session of ' Parliament. will fuiynish us with some interesting eoinni'eats on the subject. Keen members who tiro iu favour of yrhat tlio Boards are, lining will hardly approve of (ho methods by which the end has been gained. Our readers will remember a sensational trial in Paris a few years ago when a Aladamo ('aillaux entered an editor’s ollico and shot him because m Ids paper he had commented adversely on, her husband's actions as a member of the 1' r ruh .Ministry. At. her trial she was acquitted on grounds ihtil we, us'.-tl tx British law, did not muF-rst and. 1 his .same ('aillaux again looms hugn in (ho ir-ws fnvu. France, After the last change of the French M in*islry, (’'lcmcnc.-vin, ihe Premier, from informal ion known to him, erdere I the arrest of (’aillaux, who will {’" put on his trial as ,a. traitor. It will be si rang i # if lALieyimi l Cai’liana’s victim should be, proved core tel in Ids statements and opinions. 1 lrehargp tigainst ('aillaux is lint (, f conspiring against the ini errs 1 , s of his country, lie is report d to have formed a plot, whereby Ittily, (lenuanv, and France shall hi join together against Russia and, Britain. He is said to have arranged one of Iho • dramatic coups lor which France is famous, when In an ! <• -rI -iin a" complices would seize ;I r,l horit ■, an 1 (urn out the t b,vi nn.i'nl In po er. Italy seems (o ha\e suoplii'd (In in formation on. which t'l n n '.n has acted, .and the c.nso scents lo be. '.veil supported. 11 is wrong lo prejudice .any one, but if then- is truth in the charges, w e wish our gallant Allv ever,- stieei ss In fooling out Hi 1 traitors within her gates. First Polo and now ('aillaux have eoaie h fore air view* to, besmirch (In noble work which ftiie French, as a nation, have accomplished. People in. glass rouses jjlumJd uyt throw stones, uud

wn I'prvcntly hopn that thora was no s-iiiialer mnaiiina ini Lloyd IhiDi-fr o's lain si ai i'Hlpivl , whan ha Mlid lhal it uas the duly of I'Vcry ona of thn Allies lo UvUa steps to lira Ihaaisclvas from the causa of lloloism.