GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14453, 27 May 1911, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

A JOURNALISTIC MONTHLY. Journalists ore always labouring to provide other people with newspapers, and it is but appropriate that they should have a newspaper for themselves, as u kind of private luxury. '••Tlie New Healand Journalist," official organ of the Now Zealand institute. <if Journalists, has made its appearance, and promises to come out at monthly intervals. The editor, unlike tic-' ortliodox editor, talies a modest place on page twelve, and then omits to express opinions anonymously, for "The Journalist" is to he devoted onlv to sinned articles and ijeneral journalistic news. Advertisements except free ones regarding employment—do not appear in the first issue, hut it is nut stated whether this is regarded as ideal. The numher contains a thoroughly useful article, by Professor Might. I.itt. D., h'.K.K.S., of Canterbury College, upnii tlie proposed university diploma in journalism, and several suggestive contributions on the organisation of journalists as a class. Various phases of press work are described usefully with a view to instructing the unlearned, and there are numerous paragraphs of personal interest. FLYINC FLEETS. The governments of the world are showing an extraordinary activity in ihe purchase of war aeroplanes. Russia has decided to spend nearly five nrllio'ii dollars in this way, and' she will at once acquire a fleet of three .hundred machines, all of them to be delivered before the «nd of the summer. She

lias already brmgr.t eight, [li-xtuf hi- | pianos, fivo Fnriilnii bipliii'.Mt, and forty i llleriot monoplanes. liWiot's mnniujox states that li'H is»r.pu.t:y has now orders fur eighty aeroplanes for tho French government and thirty nnd double-son ted [,-;.jfii;j>iunL.(, have alrottfiy been delivered. The French govon:incut has also bought, n niiinlwr of Hroguot hi|Aii.m;ii, oonnt/rm-ted nlniostj entirely of steel, mid Unit exui Iw taken to pieces in bail' an hour, A ninnl>er of Kurmnn militnry biplanes have nlrondy boon bought by tho I'Yench, Italian, and Spanish governments. TJid British government i* still fur behind in this particular turn, only ten machines standing to Hn credit, but, negotiationa are in progress for several others. It i« e.«tinin.t.od that Franco cud now put throe, hundred aeroplanes into tho fluid, or riiUicmto the oir. THE "COOD OLD DAYS." ' The Speaker of the English Jiou*». of Commons is a Conservative of tho most rigid kind, but lio was elected by the, unanimous vote cl' a. Hoitse overwhelmingly Liberal. Hut it >viu» not until comparatively modern times thnt tho Speaker reused to l>o n parti--BHII, nor was liiij position nlwavs ono ot its present dignity. In the. time of I'itt the Speaker was accustomed U> solace himself with a draught of porter: Like sad Pomclheus fastened to tho rock. In vain ho looks for pity to tho clock, 111 vain the efforts of streiigtlicnjng porter trios. And nods to Bellamy for fresh supplies. Manners were somewhat looser in those days than they are now. T'itt himself on ono occasion showed signs of a too copious libation to tflie nods, and tins gave rise to tlic cojobruted couplet: I can not sec the. Speaker, Hal; can you ? i What? Can not s?e tho SpeakerP f 800 two. It i«; said that on ono, occasion Mr, IJißraeli nmved at tho House somewhat "under tho influence" nnd was mi indiscreet, as to attack Mr. Gladstone, , tjipn nrimo minister, imon mjiiic point o[. Inrcun policy. Mr. Gladstone renbed witliennply that "the rj«ht honourable gentleman evidently has sources of inspiration from which her majesty's ministers are debarred," DENOMINATIONAL CADETB. Tho Acting Miirsler «.f Defence, the Hon. G Fowlds, said to a Wellington "lost' reporter that (hero wemed to be nn impr«ision that Tho Defence Department, or tho Government was encouraging tho formation of denominational companies. That was not so. Tho idea started originally with tho concession that the JJov Scouts' units wcro to bo allowed, tfrom that it had spread to various organisation* and. churches suggesting that they may have similar units amongst! their companies. That was not so. "Wo have not in any way onoouragod tho idea, and unoxir any circumstances officers of such companies could not be appointed by an organisation or church, but in every case bo oppoint•ed by the Defence Department. The ■ Minister added that such eomp&nio* could only bo for sonior cadets in largo towns. Tho conditions of the Defence scheme wore primarily geographical, and the force was territorial for Territorials. Any idea of denominational organisa'ioii was quito impossible, and had never beer on*, tertained for a moment by the Dop»rtment, as recruits will j>o drafted into one of the existing coi-'.pcniet, which are not npw and cannot in future be in any sense denominational. A BUMPY TRAIN JOURNEY. Fairlie folk and all. residing at places by tlie way are complaining ot the rough train rides they experience going to and fro, A well-known resident, living on a place en route to I'Vrlie, ventilated the complaints which are being quietly made, by relating tho facts of a journey down on Tuesday last. After shunting at Pleasant Point, the tram, he says, started suddenly, and without the slightest warning, passenger* being bumped and jerked about on their seats. There were other similur incidents on the down trip, and then again at Ma \\arp, on the way home, tho train gave a nasty bump again, several ' people being knocked clean ofl' tlwiir seats. Then again at Albury, tho tram stopped fully three chains on tin* J'iniarii side of the station, people hni> ing to stumble along in tlic dark with anything but n sure footing, the ground being rough and rocky. The reason f:u- stiiiroing so far back, our iiiioriiinnt pp-Mini; d, was beennso there were about thirtv trucks in front of tho carringr*. na.s-.cngers being but a second consideration. Thiu ioiirnev is a sample of what haptens frcqucntlv, and it seems that' there is Miniplhiii" wanting somewhere. CANADA AND THE EMPIRE. As bearing on Sir Wilfred f.nurier's declaration 01, Canadian loyalty at tho banquet of the ' iniy.rinl Institute, re!>:>rt-;:-d in our >.ibln news yesterday, the following impasa onod etateinents made by him on March 7 :n a speech in defence of the reeiprecity agreement, aiv of interest : "If my poor voice could be heard throughout the length and breadth of this country, and if, without presumption, it could be hoard also beyond the frontier. I would say to our American neighbours, in regard to ihe idea, ti-itixring as it inav be In tl'"ir -<i •'(■• that Ihe lerritorv of tbe Republi:- slii-iuld' extend over «i,e wbo'e continent, from tbe waters of the Gulf of Mexico i„ tho waters of Ihe Arctic Ocean, remember that we Canadians wore bom under the sanie (lag as were your ancestors, a Hag under which ' perhaps you may have suffered sonic oppression, but which to us has been nnd is more than owr tlie .emblem of freedom. (Great Cheering.) Remember that if yon have founded a nation upon separation from the Mother-laud, we Canadians have set our hearts upon building up a nation without separation, and in tlr's task we are already far advanced with our institutions, with our national entity as a, people, and with everything that constitutes a nation i<i whom we are itisl as devoted as von are In vniiiw, (Cheers.) Hemi'iiilier that the blood which Hows in our veins is just as good as \our own. and tlmi if you are a proud people, though \yo arc not of your numbers we are just as proud as'you are, and that rather than part with our national existence we would part with our lives. (Renewed cheerinc ) Tf my voice could he beard that far, T would presume to say to our American friends there may bo a sivlarlo of a united continent, a which would astonish the world bv its novelty and grandeur, the spee'ta. !o of two people living side bv s'de for a distance of 41): I miles, n line which is hardly visible in many quarters, willi not a cannon, not a'i'iin frmvtiine across it, with not n fortress on either side, with no armaments one against the oilier, but living in harmony, in mutual ecnlidenr... and with no other rivalrv than generous emulation in oommore.o niuj tbe arts of peace. (Great. Liberal cheers.) "To the, Canadian jieople I would say that, if it is possible for us to obtain such rclnt : ons between these two voung grow-in..' nations, Caoadt would have rendered to Old England, the mother of nations, nav, to tlie who'.. Urttish Kivmii", n .-errice nneoiinlM in its present eitucl, and st'll more i n its far-reaching couseiiuoßc«s»

CORPORATION AND SANITATION. In the Ma«i.anl£'s Court at V. e[Huston vested..;.- i)r McAithur. s.M.. delivered judgment, in the one of James Dovie, Coruorat.eti In-pei'tor, v. Haiadton'tUmor." I).enfant wss ;.hi. ceeded against for failing to pull ■! iwn a condemned bt.iMing on La ..blcoi Quav. v.-ii.ch Hi- f'.t'ughv. i'::;i!. i Health Officer, bad certified to be nolit for occupation and roes to public health. A similar information was hid in rcspfic-t- of the same buikliru; in 1807, but an agreement had tlien been como to for certain improv.'ments to be made to it, to the satisfaction of tho City Enginor. but the owner was to pull down and remove the building within three rears. That three years expired in December last. His Worship now ordered that the building f>e taken down within thirty days-, gtlFYfDgs hrshr dmfw crafw einfwmf THE IRISH ENVOYS. Mr Donovan, one of the Irish Envoys, telegraphed to Air Martin Keunedy. Wellington, that the meeting at Gnnstchurcb. on Thursday n.ght vas most enthusiastic, and that about £250 was collected. Tho onvoys return to Wellington on Sunday morning. On Monday they will ho etertaiued at a Garden party; on Tuesday they 'nil speak at Taihapo, and on Wednesday at Ohakune, arriving in Auckland on the Ist June and addressing tho first meetinjr there on the following' lay. They will speak in various parts of tho Auckland district and then complete their itinerary in the South Island, and leave Wellington, for Home early in WEICHINC THE XINC. The ancient ceremony of weighing the king against masses of gold and silver will be duly carried out- during the approaching royal visit to India. The bullion is subsequently eoiued and distributed among the poor. Tho total cost of the ceromonv is estimated to be about £20,000. This custom, an American paper suggests, will doubtless inspire tho poor to unusuallv fervent prayers for tho king's health as an emaciated monarch would mean « serious diminution of revenue. On th.is occasion the weighing will be done m Calcutta.