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often due TO MIR. Hunters visit. On the
Continent be often found IL impossible to
persuade the people that he was not King
Edward. His supposed incognito would be
respected, but he himself would not be
believed. He used to declare that it could
not be pleasant to always be a King, for
he never enjoyed being taken for his
Majesty. Nevertheless to the day of
his death he never took measures to
destroy the likeless.
BUDGET CONFUSION
The inland revenue departments
throughout the country complain that the
budget deadlock has created endless con-
fusion. Demands for the income tax
were issued as usual, but payment is being
generally delayed. At one typical inland
revenue Office in London only one-sixth
the usual quota OF income tax payments
has been received up to the present time.
Many deliberate abstainers are writing
that they will withhold payment until the
budget is passed. The common reason
for delaying payment is that no notice is
taken in the demands OF the provision
allowing an abatement for each child
under 10 years.
PEARY'S ANTARCTIC PLANS.
Commenting on the Peary Antarctic
plan a writer says the project closely
resembles part OF the scheme announced
last spring by DIR. William Bruce OF the
Scottish Chronological Laboratory for
his next Antarctic expedition. It is evil
IDENTIFY Peary's intention to attempt a
landing on Coats Land, distant about $50
miles from the pole. and to strike inland
over what is presumed to be a gently
rising plateau.
This is precisely what DR.. Bruce pro-
posed to do. but instead Of stopping short
at the pole he meant with good luck
to 60 on. emerging by Lieut.. Shackle-
toms track down the Beardmore Glacier
and the ice barrier at the we'll known
British base on McMurdo Sound. Both
schemes presuppose the possibility Of
landing on Coats Land. and this is the
first and very weak point. This desolate
patch Of shore is believed to be the fringe
OF the southern continent discovered by
DIR. Bruce on the Scotia expedition in
1904. 1t is impossible Of approach owing
to pack ice Of the heaviest description.
II, however. that formidable ice ship the
Roosevelt succeeded in breaking through
the ioe belt on Coats Land it would proba-
bly, find an open road to the south.
THE NEW LABOR ExCHANoE.
Eighty labor exchanges opened in
different parts Of the United Kingdom on
Tuesday. Two hundred and thirty more
will be added soon. They are the Board
of Trades scheme to cope wit h the unem-
ployment question embodied in an aot
of Parliament passed at the last session.
1t is hoped that they will eventually put
employers and employees in touch with
each other and to a great extent do away
with the present evil OF extensive unem-
ployment.
How far the scheme may succeed five
days working cannot be expected to show.
In some few places employers have shown
willingness to cooperate with the B card
of Trade by notifying the bureaus Of their
wants. but more generally they seem to
be more than able to fill vacancies without
resorting to any agency of the kind.
One thing certain is that the opening
of these bureaus demonstrated at once
in the most forcible manner the deplor-
able condition OF the labor market IN this
So great was the rush at the
London bureaus that the police had to
men, women and youths, whose orderly
pressure in many cases broke windows
and doors. By midday most of the
bureaus had to close their doors. After
that a few of the applicants were admitted
at a time.
The officials worked at high pressure
from s to 4 o'clock. and then more appli-
cants remained to be dealt with than had
been attended to. Similar accounts come
from the rest of the country. Nearly
everywhere the assistance OF the police
was required to regulate the streams Of
applicants.
N Attempts were made the following day
70 get figures from the different bureaus.
but all inquiries were met with the answer
that an order of the Board Of Trade had
been received the evening before for
bidding any information to be given.
These facts are being extensively used
by the Unionist press to point the moral
that it is not employers. but employment,
that the Government has TO find for the
Glasses.
RACE IN HOLY WEEK.
The day fixed on for the Oxford Cam
bridge boat race as most convenient for
he tide falls in Holy Week. This has led
20 a grave rebuke from certain clergymen.
The university boat clubs, however,
'ound it impossible with regard to the
,xigencies OF training and dates OF terms
20 alter the day. but they have cOmpro-
missed by abandoning the usual jovial
Inner marking the evening OF the event.
STEAMSHIP COMBINE.