TWO RECENT RISINGS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 5

TWO RECENT RISINGS

CEYLON .AND SINGAPORE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. a July 22, 9.30 p.m.) . London, July 22. Speaking in the House of. Commons, Mr. Steel-Maitland (Under-Secretary for . the Colonies) said that it was quite possible that German intrigues v-ere behind the rising at.Cej;lon. The situation was 1 now completely in hand. The situation at Singapore was more serious,' and the Government was inquiring whether there had been German complicity.' Although interned Germans had escaped they had not participated ill the mutiny. •

"Hie question of war taxation has boen discussed with considerable freedom in the public Press," says the annual report of the New Zealand Sports Protection League. "A number of different sections of' the cijmmunity .-were allowed every opportunity to express their views as to the manner- by which necessary increased revenue should be obtained. Some organised bodies passed resolutions bearing upon the subject. In some oases it was advocated that the section of the community whose interests it is the duty of the League to pj'otect should be asked to bear what was thought an unfair imposition. It was considered bj; the board necessary owing to the prominence which the question had received to place before the branches, and also, before tho public, their. views upon tho subject. A circular letter was issued by the chairman dealing comprehensively with the question in so far as it affected the interests of sport. Tho Hon. the Prime Minister has received a deputation from tho League, and members of Parliament have been instructed in their'respective districts with regard to tho League's attitude. The proposals of tho Government aro not yet known; but it is hoped ,'tliafc they will not be such as to mark out tho sporting community for a special, distinctive and unfair increase in taxation."

Twenty-seven young women qualified ill examinations of tho Civil Service Commission, Philadelphia, liekl recently, for the position. of city nurse in the Bureau of Health, at a salary of 000 dollars a year, Sixty-one mti'iics toolttheaexajnuiati«ii