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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 27 February 1907, Page 3

"Warning to vagrants!" in lioHa'v Mack typo makes a startling line on a placard which a reporter noticed on a shelf in the Tourist Ollice, Wellington The notice, however, has no application to tourists. It comes from America, and is merely another example !>f "tin' way they have in the States." ''Warning to vagrants 1" the announcement run*: "Any person or fmmd lowering around any street, alley or Northern Pacific right-of-way. or any public place wit bin the c'tv ol Dickenson.'who cannot give a good account of themselves, or show visible means of support, will bo put to work 011 the reels with ball and chain. P. I>. Corbet, Chief of Police. P>y order of Dan Manning, Mayor." Tn the latest of the very appreciative articles 011 New Zealand, which Mr Prank Uullou is contributing to the London Standard, he writes: "With all my admiration for New Zealand and her institutions, I must i say that, so far as growth is concerned, she appeal's to me almost at a standstill when compared with provincial iowns at Home which miglr be named by the score. 1 should not have mentioned this, but that everyone with whom 1 converse, seems io be under the same" curious misapprehension. ba>cd, 1 suppose, upon the fact, that they have lived here .so long, or have only travelled to similar or even smaller place*/, that they knew every brick and plank in the place and watch the erection of each now edifice, however tiny, with an almost parental solicitude."

Mr Haldane, the British War Minister, is said to be considering a scheme for Q'vjking some general plebiscite, some system of univeWal volunteering, some unanimous expression from the whole able bodied male population, of its willingness to come forward for military service if any great emergency arose*. A plain, direct question is to be put to every son of the soil when the next census is taken, or at a special census, and a categorical Teplv demanded whether or not he is ready to bear his sbare of the burden. and, if in the affirmative, to state how and in what form he would choose to be employed. By tliis means, it is stated, the/ nation otj convulsion so abhorrent to many minds would be evaded, Hie response would be spontaneous mid voluntary, 110 force or ohli.ration would be used or implied, alii the hated word "conscription" would disappear for ever and a day. >•] t was pointed 'out "to me, remarks the nienheim correspondent ot the Lvttelton Times, "tliat the woolnrowei s of New Zealand are losing between':Cls,oo!) and £20,000 a year through The inadequate quality of the wool packs with which they are supplied from Calcutta. Probably not one in a thousand knows that such Is the case, but the explanation is very simple, and will be readily seen. Becently the price of jute, which is tin main material in wool packs, rose very bi'di and eoincidently the manufacuuo,s at Calcutta began turning out, an article of polprei- quality. Careful tests made by sow wool groveis hu showed that for >•. ' " l»' sl average ot the , eight lioimds. and ' 1 , lieved that such would be toumll to l„. tile case all over the colony. -Now as t lie recognised standard is eight and three-quarter pounds; it requires 'three quarters of a pound additional wool in eveiv bale io make up the aggregate wfiglit. Oil present prices threequarters of a pound of wool is worth . ninepeiicc, and if another penny is ad- ; ded tor freight the loss amounts to tenreiice. The rest is a matter ol . ariflunetic.

The .\IoH)Our.H! Argus v ' Jo-enii Ward is the « acL antit.iM* of Mr Uii-liard Su.IJ-.)ii, to whose n«vc ,!,[ ,v llt v, ho II, is V ,,U «».l l-ol'.lu'd. .Mr v;l , ir relets find blull. J'"' i,P lui been framed in the P<Md..n .niiriol !l'' i- essentially a nwu oi 1 ||„ - ! Wavnii'V. I'.acli team played tlnv' r, m .„ v a. a. Im-iue-s and deal-: w.tli >< i ~: ! Inis'iii's--. from a sane bui I ~L-« point of view. "J- dont vWI to I ,!,y car into Aiwlnilian politics,' 1 ho aiuiouuco.l. preparatory to beiiug iiitmicvwl, bill it v/as easy 'to sco ' that lie nganlrd the Australian yo.it--1 j,„i s : ltwtiu» a; nil amusing muddle, i: He is enthusiastic about New Zealand and its future. Mr Seddon u-ed 1o • i sneak of it as "God's own country.' ■' Sir Joseph AVanl u«cs another phrase. ) lie calls it, "My country." He fore J sees the possibility of danger from for •' eign aggression and inadequate defence .! but the protective measures lie a.lvo-i i' Mtos are vastly different from those < i put forward l»v the Federal Govern-1