Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 157, 1 June 1901, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

■Xo day 'without its quarrel is the motto of the world, tl-rek? and the boy from the ano land of the sausage and gsumaxy. the unmentionable Tur^ are now having a litfcl.fr iff. Nothing worth talking abonfcj lowever, did it not show whaf iveryono already suspects, that ‘sininert” or “neutrality” are a :r.r y a matter of dollars. Gsrbiiuy some time ago obtained important concessions on *so|b* ids ration of the construction of* a ail way through the Anatolian noviuces, Asiatic Turkey. When he recent postal difficulty was on lemuuiy did not support the |on;ert of Powers, which promedmisic for the Turk to lice of Germany at the tiine, ’jbut iinco that Power has claimed tinker valuable concessions on the ffiaiolian railways, Turkey (to use lassie language) “bucks.” This nay or may not aftect Germany’s laim. Most likely not.

Pbo dear little Jappy, Jap, Jappy is somewhat under a aues cloud in Bananaland. labour. The Queensland Federal representatives are pprmrbod by a cable report that 'loyal assent is withheld fronTtlie Sigar Industry Guarantee Bill, ecently passed by the Queensland Parliament, because of the clause inventing the employment of alien about in factories. It is cpnlidered that either the influeno( of he sugar interests has beenbrovjj fcff .0 block the Bill or that the! nJerial Parliament views with disavour any Australian attitude Which may be construed into hostility to the Japanese. If the alter view is correct, ; it raises the juestion how the Japanese ate to le treated under the Bill dealing ilien labour proposed to be mtr<JIviced in the Federal Parliament. Phia what a factor in the vorld the Jap has become. Until be Chino-Japanese war roused the iltte men more hurriedly oven than

i bey were being roused before by their progressive instincts, the j Japanese were but little thought of outside those who were very well acquainted with them. They were considered half Chinese, nothing more. Now the opinions of their nation are listened to with respect j and deference, and they bid fair to rank among the leading Powers ere long. It is their turn, perhaps, as all nations have “• an innings,” bat the progressive instincts of this Britain of the East will not wait foe *' turns ” ; they are going ahead right now. ! Morocco has promised to redress M. Poazefc’s murder 3ioEocco and the settlement of and all Algerian frontier fuaxgs. difficulties. She sends a mission to France. Hence there is weeping and wailng and gnashing of teeth in that warlike land. France did not care a rush about M. Pouaefe, and the ! Moroccans could have murdered yachtsmen every week provided they said it was accidental and they didn't mean to do it, and also parted with a decent sum as compensation. But France is waiting ! same excuse to seise a good slice of : North Africa, aud here was an opportunity. A nation cannot seize territory without some slight

excuse, and whafc hotter than one of retaliation for such a foul deed ? Now tho warships may go home with hope deferred that make da the heart sick.