DAILY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8092, 18 August 1904, Page 2

DAILY NOTES.

The fine display at yesterTSa school day's review ha s served to cadet. draw renewed attention to the Cadet movement. - The figures we quoted a few days ago indicated the popularity attained by the movement in the primary schools of the polony, and reviews sudb as yesterday's serve to- illustrate "the useful purpose to which this popularity -oan be put. Seven hundred lads were present, representing most of the primary schools iii and around Ohristchurch j To the musio of a school band they performed, a Series of movements more, than creditaihly. The parade, indeed, reflected the very highest credit on. ail ooncerned in it. As a testimony to th© practical value of. the Cadet movement it musfc have amply ful. filled the hopes of its originators. Lord Plunket had previously expressed- hij ap. proval of the principle of tho Cadet system and after has experience of yesterday he could not be otherwise tiban satisfied that the is being well applied Vhere. ' 55 ; '.•;.. Tto, Bigit Jffonoiubiei the federal George H. Reid, P.O, has pbemibb. at length won the desire of his heart.' Bs h, Prime Mm . ister of Australia. Our readers mayyr eco j. lect that on various occasions, even when ___> Aspects 'have appeared far front ro3y,

we have predicted that Mi* Reid would attain his ambition. That he has done so is* ample proof of his ability as a. political leader. He has had to contend with many obstacles. His coldness towards Federation was in many quarters considered sufficient to permanently disqualify him from the Premiership, and his freetrade opinions had won him the undying opposition of that very large section which subordinates every public question to that of the tariff. Ifc says a great deal for his astuteness that he has managed to surmount these obstacles and reach, the goal of his ambition. How long he will keep it is another matter. Boxing Bill or ru> Boxing essixo. Bill, the New Zealand Boxing Association ha» determined to hold its championship tournament. To-morrow ia the date fixed for the opening of the competitions, and the following! evening will see their close. Those competitors who hit. hardest, knock out their opponents quickest, score most points, or do whatever a properly constituted boxer •should, will probably find their way into the team which will represent New Zealand in the Australasian championships to be held in Chr ,!^cWch nest month. Therefore each competitor hes considerable inducement to do his best, and as the authorities make a point of insisting that the con- | testants shall box to win, the public can depend on getting a " willing go " for their money. , > ' — — — Philanthropy run mad is an extrWs the term which many people proposal, will apply to the Hon W. Beehan's proposal to settle well-conducted prisoners on Crownlands. The State certainly owes a duty to its prisoners, and it should endeavour to perform it^.by putting them in the way of earning an honest livelihood. But it is surely placing an extreme interpretation on its obligations to suggest that it ought to convert them into settlors at the expense of the taxpayers. Such a couree would be little short of offering a premium to crime. Mr Beehan's motion was carried in the, Legislative Council yesterday, and the Attorney-General promised that the Government would consider it. " But," added Colonel Pitt, " I doubt if it will have any practical result."^ We should think not, indeed.