The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916 A TORY POSTULATE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 11 July 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916 A TORY POSTULATE.

(With which is incorporated Tho Tal hape Post and Waimarino News.)

Because- of the close and most significant relationship with the provision the Massey Government is making for the settlement of our returning soldiers on the land, we quote what a lifelong Tory in the House of Lords says about making provision for the men who are offering their lives in the common weal Attention is being directed to these words because wo have been told that the attitude we have taken up on the soldiers’ settlement question has some party significance. Let it here and now be impressed upon our readers that we care no more for party or their shibboleth’s than we do for the ghost of Hamlet or, in fact, any other ghost, whether it b e from a human or superhuman source. The words uttered by the English * Tory of Tories are just what wo would like to say, and we would also like to see the logical’ outcome of their meaning an accomplished fact. General Haig has personally enquired from very many of his men, amounting to several thousands, as to whether they intended settling on the land after the war, and ho found that the number answering in the affirm ative was largely in excess of his anticipations. Then from his place in the House of Lords, Lord Scbourne, a corner stone of Toryism., said it was all very well to-tell our soldiers that they can go to Australia, Canada, and Hew Zealand, but their own country ought to provide —ought to provide ex-soldiers with the land they had helped to save. It is not opposed to Conservatism, or reform, or liberalism, or anything else but sheer robbing, and an ingratitude that one would expect from a savageimturcd animal to make provision loi ex-soldiers on that land they had fought to save to us in the bloodiest struggle the world has known. The Prime Minister of this country knows, and the budget has told us that there- are numbers of applications from returned soldiers for land. What are these numbers doing now and what is the Government doing to get the land they are asking and waiting for? It is positively unbelieveablo that any man or GovernJoven though he, or ft, werte entirely built up of avarice, could calmly go on hoodwinking and* humbugging, aggregating the settled and unsettled Tans; leaving one man and bis sheep

on areas that would find homes for a hundred soldiers and their families, Avhile there are numerous applicants waiting for land. Politcial shibboletns have nothing to do, with the question, as Lord Selbourne has shown A pillar of Toryism has told the world that England ought to provide the laud for her soldiers, and we may rest assured I that England will do it, despite the ’efforts of those who would prefer game preserves to a perpetuation of that power that saved the land from Attilan robbers Lord Selbourne’s words ring in our ears, because we know that they were intended for every part of the Empire. Will the New Zealand spurious brand of Tory listen to the voice of the real thing at Home. Will the spirit and sentiment of the real Tory sink into their avariciousuess sufficiently to raise some sense of shame Will they ontinue to permit the aggregation of estates to continue, and insanely go on perpetuating such scandals as that recently disclosed at Rotorua while Lord Selbourne tells them they ought, tory or no tory, to provide land for the returning soldiers, or will they persist in making use of the little time they have left to remain in office in partitioning the public estate among themselves and 1 their henchmen, leaving returned sol s diers to go to Australia, Canada, Egypt, or- even to Hades for the matter of that, and all they seem to care? General Haig is doing his utmost to procure the settlement of his brave fellows on the land when fighting is over; what are our generals doing?. 'The real Tory element in England is urging the cutting up of the deer parks and game preserves, and putting exsoldiers in w.ieir place; what is New Zealand Toryism doing? They are mopping up the land themselves at ridiculously and low prices, in readiness for the acute- time of soldiers ’ need, when they will demand two or three hundred per cent on their outlay This journal is at one with the sentiments expressed by Lord Selbourne, the hereditary Tory, when he says we ought—ought—to provide land for those returning soldiers who- have fought for it and won it.

It takes 4000 years for a totara tree to com,« i.fo maturity, remarked the chairman of the Clifton County Council during a dicsussio.n on t;ree:plaiiting last week. r : ■

: , AwStateniiontis widely current that a : ;Cpinipany lias been formed in> Christ-church,-..with.. a capital of £IOO,OOO, to erect theatres in the four centres of the Dominion that will be capable of accommodating 2000 persons each.

Zealand. f That was one of the causes of the free bidding for these lines at! the" recent wool sale in- Dunedin. The

Japanese' 'View possess any ' amount of plant to deal with cruthings, says the “Star.” '■

" A. numb,or of residents of a suburb of Chelmsford who are possessed of rather large noses, hav e formed themselves into a nose club. They meet weekly at an inn, and for each pinch of snuff taken a copper is placed in a box for local charities.

Owing to the scarcity of beer in Germany, Danish breweries have been invited to export large quantities. The amount exported will depend upon the effect of the rise in Danish prices of beer upon the home demand, but probably 1,300,000 gallons will be exported

“I have been in the habit of going to the pictures a great deal-, and have seen some, very‘clever thefts committed. Like a great fool I have taken them all in and thought them very clever.” This statement was made at Marlborough Street Poke Court by Charles George Lester (18), charged with stealing jewellery worth £1350 from the Goldsmiths and Silversmith’s Company, Logout Street. He was remanded.

Berlin papers state that tile Germans captured the steamer Brussels by a ruse, pretending that their vessel was a British torpedo boat. The commander came aboard, doffed liis cap, and chatted

with the officers politely in English, while the German sailors made/ the wireless useless. The commander then disclosed his identity, and brought the steamer to Zeebrugge after many difficulties.

A suggestion has boon made to the Attorney General, by Mr. it McCallum, M.P., that he should take into consideration the advisability of removing from the commission of the police all those who were born in countries at war with Ctreat Britain and her Allies. Apart from their national leanings, he says, it is well known that many naturalised aliens are discouraging their New Zealand born children from enlisting. Some trouble has arisen owing to the alleged, victimisation of a member of the Whakamarina Miners-' Union, who, it is alleged, has been discharged for forwarding a resolution against conscription, passed by the Union, to the “Maoriland Worker.” The result of this alleged victimisation, is that the miners are idle, and the matter is being placed before the Prime Minister. The Union has sent a delegate to Wellington. to place the case before the public, and ho 1 will address the Labour demonstration at the Alexandra Hall to-morrow evening.

A washerwoman is wanted by an ad vertiser.

A young girl is wanted to mind two children; one to sleep at hom e preferred.

A lorry owned by Cunningham & Co of Onehunga, was struck by a train at the railway crossing at Onehunga and cut in two parts, which were carried fifty yards and fell over a bank The driver, Alfred George Smith, -was seriously injured, and two sisters, Ivy and Muriel Pike, avßo wer e riding on the driver ’a seat, were thrown -off and fell clear. They Avert only slightly injured.

Mr. R. Fletcher (Wellington Central) gave notice in the House on Friday to ask the Minister for Education what are methods employed, and on what principle does the Wellington Education Board promote its teachers. It is alleged, he added in a note, that a considerable amount of dissatisfaction exists in regard to promotions, and that a good deal of injustice obtains in connection thenvith.

Several of the members of the House of Representatives aylio are in faxxmr of the early closing of hotels on Friday Availed on the Prim e Minister to' urge that some action be taken on the report of the Petitions Committee. The interview took place in private, and as far as can be gathered,, Mr. Massey refused to be “draAvn” as to whether the Government Avas disposed to do anything in the matter. He heard the representations which had to be made, and gave a reply that they Avould be duly brought before the Cabinet.