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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43324, 12 May 1908, Page 3

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THE WORLD’S HEWS

OBITUARY. LONDON, Yesterday, j Sib H. Campbell - Bannekican’s ) brot! ar, James Campbell-Bannerman. INTER STATE BOWLING. 1 ' SYDNEY, Yesterday At bowling Queensland beat New South Wales by 105 to 89. INDIGNANT SUFFRAGETTES. LONDON, Yesterday. A large number of suffragettes at Dundee maintained persistent bellowing which greatly interfered with Mr Winston Churchill, who while 1 refusing to apologise, explained that I he did not intend to reflect on the j personal character of the suffragettes. NEW YORK HORROR. FURTHER BODIES FOUND. ' NEIW YORK, Yesterday. Further investigations show that Mrs Guinness’ first husband, named | Sorenson, died the day before the old insurance policy expired, and two days after the second policy became operative. The bodies of another man and woman have been unearthed, making 15 victims in all including those incinerated. THE BUDGET PROPOSALS. OLD AGE PENSION SCHEME CONDEMNED.

TARIFF TAXATION PROBABLE. LONDON, Yesterday. The Spectator says that the Budget discourages the working classes trom making Adequate provisions for their old age. So complicated, j harassing, land unpopular is the i pension scheme that it will not last two yearsMr Asquith’s Budget is.unabashed Micawberism, and such juggling is only a deferred payment bill, both as regards pensions and increased naval expenditure. Any succeeding Government is certain to have recourse to tariff, taxation thus destroying free trade. The Telegraph says that the Budget is a huge evasion and an immense effort to deceive the nation, while the cost of introducing a policy of stupendous weight. Apparently old age/ -pensions will cost only £1,200,000 for the first, the second year it will cost six millions, and ultimately it will cost nearly thirty | millions.