GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 102, 27 May 1909, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

A Mastertou merchant, speaking to a Daily Times reporter, stated that though nothing definite was known, there was a rumor afloat in Wellington to the effect that tea and sugar would again l>« made subject to duty during the coming session of Parliament, U 1 may-as well tell you al once/' remarked the 1 lon. Mr Millar to a lleefton deputation "in my opinion then? will be no Railways Authorisation Bill of any kind whatever this session. i>ome of the railways already under construction we will take to certain points and stop there."

Keplying to a question put to him by u Times reporter on the subject of th • native land difficulty in the North, Mr ♦l. A. Manan, M.P., said there was a consensus of opinion among a number of members of Parliament with whom he had lately conversed that the Native Department, particularly so far as it deals with land, should" be taken over and carried on by the Lands Department. With regard to Native Land Court business, it was. added Mr llauan, according to ini|uiries he had made during his visit to tlte North, now being much better done.

Those men who talk .so glibly about recognising no flag and having no country to defend ought, remarks the Christ-church-Press 1 . to have to live for a time in the countries which England must regard as at least potential iocs, anl against which her precautions of defence are taken. Safe under the British flag, which they apparently despise, they can now afford to indulge in loud, cheap' talk, of which all the good that can be said is that it must open the eyes of the workers generally to the dangerous paths in which the Socialists would lead them.

A \Vairarapa correspondent of the i Post reports that an ingenious fraud (really it is a very old dodge) hats heen successfully perpetrated upon country | residents in a certain part of the district. Some few weeks ago a traveller called upon them with really excellent suit and costume tweeds, which he retailed at the price of 10s per length, lie also imparted the information that a couple of capable tailors from his firm would wait upon them a few days subsequently, take their measures (and the t'weeds too), and make a stylish suit AC an additional cost of 255. The whole of the suit .lengths were thus again gathered in, and" tile sharers left for fresh fields. Doubtless the goods have been retailed cls'ewhere before this. '

A Tiinaru Herald reporter, a "tiiuid and unsuspecting man " got into conversation with a motor-car owner who d*> | livered to him an irate tirade on the persecution meted out by the public to i car-owners. Every accident on th« rend, he said, is immediately attributed to a motor-car. Jn London a car may go through the city at twelve miles un hour, but in Tiinaru only four miles - n • hour is allowed at street crossings.- Tic thinks the prejudice against the motorcar iis caused by ''a socialistic s'pirifc which delights in abusing that which is beyond its reach. As for the newspaper men who 'write those abominable lies about cars," he said with scorn, "they should be dragged in the front of a car and run over by it; that would be plenty good enough for them," j

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