The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, July 27, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1075, 27 July 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, July 27, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A STATEMENT of the receipt and expenditure of the Consolidated Fund for the quarter ended June 30, iyl2, appears in the Gazette. Receipts : Balance at beginning ot quarter ,£807,275, ordinary revenue 696 f n&tioucil endow* ment revenue £39A l 3> tolal £>3>' 184,773. Total for the corresponding quarter last year, including ,£586,483 at the beginning of the quarter, £2, 827,180. Expenditure: Permanent appropriations ,£1,199,407, annual appropriations £1,302,818, balance at the end of the quarter £782,546, total £3,284,773- Total for tbe corres P on ‘ ding quarter balance) £2,827,180.

Onk of the curses of the drinking system in New Zealand is “shouting.” It is a custom which has got a firm hold, not only upon numbers of young men, but upon our commercial men. Only

recently we were informed by a well-known c.t. that if he did not

“turn it on” for certain clients on his round no business would i- .lt. It is considered bad torm to indulge in what is termed a “Jimmy Woodser,” i.e. to indulge in a glass of liquor by oneself. In some parts of Australia antishouting leagues have been formed among those who indulge in a social glass. “What’s yours?” however, is a question which will not be heard much longer in the province of Ontario, Canada, if the Anti-Treating Bill, recently promised by Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario, is passed into law. The Bill will be the most drastic legislation regarding liquor ever introduced in Canada, says the correspondent of a Condon journal. It is intended thoroughly to eliminate the treating system. The law will provide heavy fines for the hotel-keeper and bartender, as well as the treater and treatee, while any hotel-keeper convicted on a third time of allowing anyone to buy a drink for another will lose his license. There are dire days ahead for the Canadian who persuades his pal to “haveanother.” This “shouting” business will become a too expensive form of entertainment in the Great Cakes District, but its prohibition will prove a friend in disguise to the hotel-keepers.

A movement that is spreading in Australia is the Australian Catholic Federation, according to a circular which we received by the last Australian mail, from the secretary. It is constituted on similar lines to the Valkevereim (Pope’s Union) of Germany, which is perhaps the greatest society ever devised lor the development of the Social sense of a people. The movement originated in Victoria where over 70 Parish Councils, with 200 district sub-committees have been formed. The Diocesan and Central Councils are now in course of construction which will complete the organisation of the machinery of the Federation in the State. In South Australia 32 Parish Councils are already in existence in addition to numerous sub-committees in the outlying portions of the parishes and a Diocesan Council already formed. The movement is now being inaugurated in Queensland and West Australia. It is also expected that New South Wales, Tasmania and New Zealand will introduce the work at an early date. When ramifications of the Federation are complete it will represent over a million Catholics spread throughout Australasia. The Federation is desirous of cooperating with citizens of all denominations in movements for the public good. One of the works already undertaken in this direction was the calling together of a conference to combat the evil of Immoral Literature, Postcards and Cinematograph Films, which was presided over by the Chief Justice, Sir John Madden, and at which all the great religious denominations and public bodies were represented.