POLITICAL POINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 80, 13 July 1910, Page 4

POLITICAL POINTS.

(By Telegraph—From Our farli&nientary Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night, THE BOOKMAKER. The attack on the bookmaker." proceuds apace, gaining strength with every day. A local cartoon represents an individual of the fraternity on his knees imploring the Prime Minister to save him from a crowd of infuriated people trying to break through the bars that keep them off him. He is crying' out that they are about to strangle him.. Sir Joseph ,holds the key that unlocks iheigate. He is saying quietly that it is no use resisting, and he tells hisagonised suppliant that he must make up his mind to go. That just about represents the situation. The men who thirst for the blood of the 'bookie" likewise want to burn the totalizators. But that is another pair of shoes. There is not the same unanimity on that subject. The "tote* may be regarded as the present quite safe, but it is a threatened institution. The Government Bill for bettarinjr the regulation of the "bookie" is declared' by many to be drastic enough to make the regulation deadly, but the general sentiment prefers direct execution, and' the Government measure may be saw to be doomed. LICENSING MATTERS.

Licensing is not dead as a subject, for the £lO license in the town dittrictß has to be levelled up, and the King Country requires to be placed on h solid footing. But there is not likoly lo be anvtliing more in the Bill. The split in the temperance rt-nko makes it unlikely that the Government will do anything radical. The main issues are likely to remain as they are for some time longer.

DOMESTIC HELP. The discussion kept up by the deputation with the Prime Minister at today's interview is the talk of the lobbies, but the ouestion of what to do for increaa>ne the domestic help of rhe Dominion finds nothing like unanimity o* sentiment. Labor is afraid f.hat f>ve passages, ns asked for bv the deputation, md alluded to favorably hjr the Frcmier, lend to the dreaded indenture system, wh'ch it, regards i.s slavery dissuised thinly. The dearth o* help is v»ry acute, however, as vas by the verv widely influential deputation! Tt is rot impossible that ths <r<e pnss•i™ «vet em may be tried, though the (Vfficiiitios jn its way ire, ns the Premier °nid, very great. T"R FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Th" Financial Statement is down for TWflnv next, and the fri?nds of the Onvovnment are b'bilnnt it Imm rorlh'g "on i of the nromi«" of the other nisrht. mi/lo when Mr. Mnssev wn« taunting *1, P "anornr" with his i>sual dilnloriiies* in fliio vpirnrd—n taunt b< r no "limns adnvHnrl ]„. f, nP PrPTninr. who, op the Wlt ™"' insisted that tV >nt bus "i—"vo .'p. bis t'"i< 1 . porno d«wij «rme-'-'tjattjaTAN OF C(T\T\T!"TTyFS, "•'— of rtanmittae* Vm i,„i...„„„ «; r wi'iin m Steward and Mr. "-. flie ■former hm the of +i,„ o, 10 . 1 ir ors i,i n , W pH n pid during thin -"'••■''"i. n-pd t''° onnnorf o" i)<i- older ...„.,.1,„,.c. 1, 0 0^ r ,1 by ;i, O T. Y. TV...„.... ..-,.1 ATr Afn.eanw Vv ■V,,.p v ]. iflß „ ~(..„„„ -1 T li" eWfion will pTobnblv t.e on l?..;,i„„ ■"■ p. tvyytv'S ATVOTX'THTPXT. Tim '-•"•innr +iio f)n"o=>tion. Th» Oc nnvmnit 'Vllnwora poncMov Jt f> f>jr o'wrinWlt tn '■'"t •'« nn i>T)pst. ni)]p vutn to rtr*- •'''" ""'tlinn*- nv"in(Tiee, in c matter in -iiJM, ] o <rn] technicalities are now swept awav.