NOTES OF THE DAY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 6

NOTES OF THE DAY.

Tiie ten e of fee speeches made on Monday niehf at foe gathering of Post anil lolcgzanh offers to titbi leave <u filft. W. H. JloniriS, who is to represent Hew Zealand at the coming Postal G&fegiess at Ma dr id, iiiay justly be regarded as a ebfrvincing reply to S'i.u jfisEPij Waup'k assertion in Parliament. Oij Friday last tint- (hero is ''discontent in r. 11 brunches of The Scrvice right thrimgh Jfotv Zealand." Judging by what- the Postal officials 'themselves tlioj". ought to know hfrfM" than aftjrone ois<)'-f , iliss f< iiss oou'eitt" exists lira inly in She lively invagination o't; t'W . .Anti-liefurm leader. The unintentional, but none Uio less emphatic, refutation of Snt JosiU'ii Ward's stat-onjciit contained in the sjieah of Mh. J'; C. v Wiu,iAJtSOn ill pwjjiQsijig t.ho toast; tii the Public ■ Bftrvico Commissioners speaks for itself": "Tiro : Posjt aud : . /offi'c.'rs (liruugliciH. ite Domiivis!!," said i'.r. \Vil!iv.m<oi), "i'.en> well fa'lisSed will! the .©pjnnvkWfeiiSrW iuldj / afld tJiey -fad (l.p tnuhottfy of {ho 'Kiti.no' far savin;; fliiit ■|:h:6 present' classification provided as. sn.tiiw factory ptPSKfi.l;'; for jcte's.i-jr •offite.r ltv Uio Krai ' Tito t.iriv ii'Jbiie.'.Uou.. _ «\rli'-r than evfif lx'fcrOi of tho. Xis^ I. ad Riven soi:or»i.l fcitisfarUon, as had the prompt payment. ei the aami.d iucromen!*.." ' . ' Si it Joseph Ward declares . that titers is 'direou-te.nt in the Servico •'right. tlir«>u.t : :!'. Xew .ZOThmd,/' 'and M that tlic bfH- . cers ''fhrougijout tho Dominion" arc . well s« tisfieu. 'We have not- the. kasi' cioubSi; xhat her.;- and. tliere. wijl be : found : aliseoiitonfcd - V )hdividtm!s n : they wiil be found in any em vice. iii tb« world—but taken as- a whole ihe Public RctviVe realises that it is bctr fer off under the Commissioners than lit could ever hope to. be.imde : r the demoralising mlluonf.es. associated ' with polit.ira! .eontvei. JJoicovnr, the assurance that both the Gnnnnjs- ' siouors and the employees arc- "cut ■ for efficiency and merit" is .a sure indication that .the interests of t.ha "great third party''— general •public-'will bs well looked after. So:,!!; of the, ; fairy stories with ■Whi&h tho Opposition "Flying. Sriuadroir deluged tho country dnr- ; ing the recess an; now cpming homo; to roost to the e.xeeo,driig discom- , tort of their authors. A late example . occurred on Tuesday evening _ when. M'n. (!.. R. Sykks, speaking: in the Afiilre'ssrin-Kiiply Debate in ■ the House of l}"pr<.:Si:nt<iiive's, corrected st, wild i-i'foi't o:f fur : which jfit, T. Jil. WWFOK& was re-\ ' sponsible when he. addressed a meet-' ing at Jla.sterton. On that occasion the inem'.ipr for lintt contended, in effect, that the ■ H'Vfonn Govo-rnmeut. had nttllified its own action in in.crciisinsv the graduated land tax. by introdneins an amended valttaI ion system which in its operation wouid'. n:.orr: than compensate . hit; landholders for the increase, in the : tax. , This, 'assertion Mi:. Wir.Konii ivi.ckcr.l up by n that when, the new valuations o.ime out' it lVunid be_ found that the. nsfossnicnt J of the big. p.ro)K'T.fie.s had fee'en r<:iinrecl. _ Mfi. fivKns fui'nished % dis-c-jnc»'rf.itig reply by producing the nc.v vji.fati.on list for (.'astiepoir,t t'ounty, the only one yrt ~T;:i: : lal)lc. Tlif> list, showed that so far from; tlte v-nillations having been rednund th:»v licETt very largely increased • some of the. douiil. figures a-rn given in uur news columns—a:;d. Mn. Svkis; conclusively ti-at -the charges of the member for ■ H.utt v..on ui i.erly without feiuidation. When he was fifsK referred to bf the member for Mrtstcrtftii. Mis,; Wn.roKD assumed an air of languid, indiffereiice, livit as the exposure j-ro-ci edetl tin. siiburhan jhembrr's distumfttuie b"cam.n only too apparent.;

Tij'E itt»re fact that 4 lecture skoultl I.® given at the beddcpuulers of the lisya] .Society of .Medtcinc on •siich a. snbjcct as cross-currespouil-once with people on "the. other side" sboivs that psyahkal- rosearth has become ouite a. respediide oeetlpatiort frou: the scientific ]ioint of view, it is true that some scientists of the old school still view if w:ih suspicion ami disinvfjur, Vint it has succeeded in attracting the aitcn- : tior. Of some of fto aeuiesi, iiitellects of the day. ,A cn'olegranv published lii yesterday's i.ssiie to.Ul ttj thai the leeture. I'sferred to was civen by, a distinguished modern philoso])h.-!.v, Dn. f, 0. S- ■ SciuttEtt,' Feilow au.d Senior Tutor iii CorpUs Chrisii College, Oxford, a i.wilribut.ir to the . iah'.st iwliiioii of. t!ie Knr'jdoihinlia Britanjurii,. aftd. indhor of ii ni:mbor o! w.-li-kiMwn woi'ks. It is ratlie; -

■ startliHg to be fold iiv a sgiielar of sacii eiMiirancc that the evidence, of -torrespoidleiiC'! apiie-trs to sug gest tfifl't ! lie ifUirtljitiiittS wf the world have something likr a Psychical Bese-ftreh Society of their own which is endea-vonring is; get into touej; with friends on this sidfe Of the gi-a\ c. The evperinv. ' in. ero:.s-c;n resjio-iideuce have produced exi»;iiiirsry results. Bi.nie time ■ ago ;v. tnesy:!gc was tent fbr-uigh a tacdiujii to Fiuseisiue SlvEiss (vmi' ni tile foititiiut's of the So.eioty for I'syi'bk.a.i Ivesearc!i wiio di.'d gome yeisrs :•:■■>>} iu-.kiiig to give any l;\vfr autonifitists w©* Mgcs. which rid connection was diseciniblc: then to give to a

third autoi.iM.tist anotiiet Message' which would reveal the Mckm connectiom, The idea was to conditions wiiwh wotik! exclude -ex-" piiiflrttion by U-l-'jvjtliy britteem, the living, _% causing a statement to ho m»4e i»' two separate parts wljirVi i would have no ftieafciug until pvifc together. Si;: W. F. Barrmt, I ¥ R.S., tells : us that ilia ospci-MiMiit "has kct to a sWfiis *a ei'i;ss-covn:s-pomk'neps, =cujifosrwijing .{» the type sftg-gisSttd, ami siicfirsifully 'aaj-rrifl.d on with an ingenuity whuj) in sonic eases drafts tipm). stores ®f knowledge possessed by the (uitonuiiio writors thr')ii|h whom the inersagi's 4ft) sent.'' The faijt.s «fc> icfirt.rtinlj? : mnarkable., hut there is groat. difi.'.; ; - . mcc of (minimi as to their exphirati'i'i- l-sfcpitthy liotweaij living i minds clows 'riot appear to lie flntli'ciy , ncli.'d oat, and tijo aivvxagii roan is i riot likely te bftlicve cflrtjmstnSi cation with the n-n-,-!d beyond has i boon established until every oihor interpretation of the- pliimbiirnrm has ljrolcoii di.nv'i. i . I " l