DAILY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7731, 15 June 1903, Page 2

DAILY NOTES.

' With the holding of the to-mVkrow's last of the statutory meetl'OLL. ings, the tramway campaign closed. But the result of the campaign is still undecided, and will remain so until the poll is declared to-morrow. Provided the ratepayers will take the trouble to gr>. to th© poll, the result will not bo in j doubt. If everybody with a vote would exercise it the Boai'd's proposals would be carried by a huge majority. But* will even a tithe of the voters go to \he poll? We fear not. The experience of past municipal polls does not encourage th© belief that the average Cliristcburch. voter will ever be anything else than wilfully careless of his responsibilities. He will grumble if a beneficial project iis defeated, but he will not take the precaution to guard Dgainst its defeat- by recording his vote im j favour of it. This strange apathy is the only danger which threatens the tramway proposals. The New Zealand Rugby A wise Union has done wisely in precaution, deciding to increase the strength of the New Zealand team, which is about to Visit New South Wale^s, from twenty to twenty-two. The wear and tear of a football tour is proverbial.* It does not need an expeit I footballer to. tell that, in a game, like iootball, in which -the' proportion of accidents is large, it is a matter of necessity to make aim-pie provision for "breakages." Neglect of this precaution in the past has cost New Zealand at least one inters colonial match. We can recollect that one New 'Zealand team, while on tour in Australia, -was so emaciated by accidents 'and "stateness" that it had to ba reinforced by a detachment of sound players from this colony. Before fclie succour arrived, however, the team had lost a match against New South Wales.

A ceremony of more than A MEMORIAL, passing interest to students

of early Canterbury history took place in the Chapel of Christ's College, yesterday, when a memorial to the late Dean Jacobs was unveiled. Dean Jacobs, who was one of the most accomplished classic scholars New Zealand has known, was quite as prominent a« any of the pioneers in the work of laying a solid foundation to the province. Although he arrived in one of the first four ships, his labours began before his arrival. On the voyage out he was entrusted "with the mental training of the juvenile emigrants, and, in more senees than one, his work left its mark. The .tablet which was unveiled at. Christ's College yesterday is a fijirfng memorial to one who played an important part in the earliest educational movement in Canterbury, and was nteo headmaster and sub-warden of the College. v. . If the Premier's previous bank of new utterances with, regard to zeai-and. the State Rank . question . raised any doubt as to his view* on this subject, his reply to a deputation fromi the Trades and; Labour Council on Saturday must have dissipated them. MrSeddon«tiU#iaks there are-three way* '

of dealing with the Bank of Now Zealand, but of theee three the conversion of tlic institution into a State Bank appeals to him tbo least. "I do not think tho country is ripe for a Stale Bank," he told tho deputation,, and he- added, "I do not think ifc possible to nmko the Bank of New Zealand" a Stats Bank, nor do I think Parliament would carry a measure in that direction." The plan of dealing with the Bank of New Zealarid which meets with most approval from Mr Seddon is a partnership between the Government and the shareholders. Ho favours this proposal in preference to renewing tho guarantee given nine years