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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9790, 13 October 1917, Page 3

While feeling was running High against America some time ago, an American attache in X/ondon, conforming to the ambassadorial usages of his country, sought to "attend a Eoyal levee in his customary frock coat and black tie. The costume offended the nobility of a court flunlcey. and the man was turned hack. The combination of incendiary sentiment and crass absurdity brought Us as near to conflict with America as anything that happened during her great Civil "War.

stated show the House and the country that they could not expect to hare anything approaching the revenue they had last year. It would not, ho thought, be up to the estimate in the Budget in respect of_ Customs; but, otherwise, the position was very strong. The Hon. D. Buddo asked ,if there was any intention to raise the railwayrates to balance the loss of railway revenueNOT GOING TO HAVE A DEFICIT. Sir Joseph Ward; ‘‘We are not going to have a deficit; and wo don'r deal with these matters till the end of the financial year. Owing to the war, the position of the railways is verydifferent from what it was last year, and the matter is under consideration now, especially in regard to the position of the staff. Yv’e are not going to have any deficit, in my opinion; and I don’t want any impression of that sort to get about.’’ If they were going to have a deficit, he added, it would be necessary to make provision with a view to meeting it. But ho thought that it would be found at March 31st nest that there would be no deficit.