GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1833, 14 August 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’kKSS ASSOCIATION COI'VKRiIIT Bt. Petersburg, August 12. Tho Bourse Gazette, St. Petersburg, reports Unit tlio programme oC tho Miuistor of Marino includes sorno twenty thousand battleships, with a spued ol twnnty-ono knots, to bo constructed in Russian yards. Rio Do Janeiro, August 12. Tho polico at Sorgipo, Brazil, iovolted and attackod tho Governor’s palaco. Now York, August 12. Bitty thousand poople are still living in touts at Sau Francisco. Tho orcction of business promises is monopolising attention, no skilled or other labor being availablo for houso construction. Tho Panama Canal Company aro engaging 2500 Chineso coolio3. Tokio, August 12. Japan does not protest to America against tho shooting of tho J'apaneso seal lishois wlio woro poaching. Johannesburg, August 12. Two hundred Chineso on tho Rand have applied for repatriation under tho first notice, and three hundred and seventy under tho second. Ottawa, August 12. British Columbia proposes to import Hindoos to relievo tho labor difficulty. Lisbon, August 12

The soamen of tho ] lom Carlos and other ships of tho Portuguese Navy awaiting trial at L’sbon for mutiny, belonged to tho Black Cross secret society, supposed to bo revolutionary, and with" ramifications vory widespread amongst tho men of tho fleet. Sydney, August 13. During a forty days’ voyage from Napier, the barquentine Kongobyrd encountered a sorios of gales, compelling hor to bo hove to frequently. She came through undamaged. Adelaide, August 13. Sir W. Dyne, addressing a large gathering, said ho hoped the preference treaty with New Zealand would bo mado known beforo the ond of the month, Ho advocatod a goneral land tax for tho whole of Australia for central government purposes. It was impossible for four million pooplo to stand tho tax of six parliaments, six governors, and all tho machinery of government.

If it is of vital interest to our settlor that gord roads and convenient railways should bo tneirs, which great conveniences are only economically possible where country is to be thickly settled, and without which country cannot be thickly settled ; if it is of pressing importance to tho city that an ever increasing stream of wealth should provont tho ultimato cessation of developmental expenditure from boing crushingly felt in tho form of unemployment and duluess of trade; it is none tho lcs3 important to tho colony at largo that, its revenue should remain buoyant and that increased wealth production should enable it to bear without tottering tho ever-in-creasing debt and the ever increasing cost of administration. Wo say, therefore, that at tho present juncture, while wo are still in tho heyday of prosperity, is the time for a wise Government to bond its energies, to tho legitimate development of this great province.—N.Z. Herald. Under tho hoadiug “ The Tinker-ing-up Policy,” tho N.Z. Farmers’ Weekly states It is notorious that we are always tinkering with our laws, and proparing thereby a prolific harvest of fees for the legal fraternity. Amendment has followed amendment in such bewildering fashion, that it is difficult even for the trained logal mind to always say just what their effect is. In throe years no loss than eighty-throo amending Acts dealing with public matters passed through Parliament, thirty six of these becom--ing law during tho session of 1903, Making every allowance for the amendments necessitated by time and change of circumstances, it is still evident that a great deal of slipshod legislation must have been included in tho work of Parliament. It is not too much, therefore, to say that reform is needed, not alone in tho Legislative Council, where tho elective principle should bo brought into operation,, but also in the Homo of Representatives, which, as the originating Chamber of the bulk of tho legislation, is clearly at fault, cither in its methods or procedure, or in the imperfect attention it gives to’the measures brought forward by tlio Government.