NoteS and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 18 June 1895, Page 3

NoteS and Events.

• The talked-of lottery of the Assets Company's properties is not likely to j come to pass. Tasmania tried one last year for the Van Dieman's Land Bank, and it was an utter failure. It was proposed to sell 800.000 tickets at Jgl each and only 50,000 sold t The expenses are sure to have been very large. The result would be much about the same here, if attempted. Lotteries are not wholesome, and a failure is to be welcomed. The very idea of suggesting a lottery under the present Government sounds absurd for have they not prohibited the advertising of sweeps, consultations, and other improper things ? The idea however gets abroad for even pure as the Government are in protestation their actions are not up to the mark. Newspapers must not advertise evil things, which is so far so right, but the Government for the value of the postage will deliver these evil things right in the houses of the colonists ! It seems inconsistent, and permits a thought that their principles would be thrown to the winds if their pockets were affeoted.

" For no one can vigilantly watoh unless he can also soundly sleep " says the Revieio of Renews in a note on the position of the Liberal party in England. "There is nothing more aggravating to the eager reformer than John Bull's perpetually recurring fits of somnolence it goes on to say. " But it is possible that this inveterate habit of hybernating in Conservative reaction after a decade of Liberal reforms is one of the secrets of progress." It is about time this " most advanced colony " had a year or two spell, even if then it is to awake to "an irresistible advanca."