(Lytlelton Times.) Labour wins its way despite all opposition. A cablegram which we pilblish this morning, states that the English Cabinet has resolved upon instituting a Labour Bureau "on lines superior to the similar bureaux in France and America." Only a few day's ago we were told that Mr Mundella had positively refused to consent to the creation of such an office in connection with his Depart ment, but now we are informed that the President of the Board of Trade is, in collaboration with Mr Burt, Under Secretary to the Board, arranging the details for starting the Labour Bureau. The conversion of Mr Mundella has been brought, about more speedily than we anticipated, and the innovation of an English Government department acting the part of a labour agency, will soon be an accomplished fact. We confess to a little curiosity as to the intended scope of the English Labour Bureau. The only indication we receive is that it is to be on lines " superior "to the French and American Bureaux. Does that mean that it is to be on safer and more Conservative lines, in accord with the traditions of the '• superior ' Anglo-Saxon of the stay-at-home type? Or does it mean that it will be modelled after the more advanced Labour Bureaux of New Zealand and Australia ? The unexpected rapidity with which some reforms are gaining ground in England, as elsewhere, inclines us to the belief— which is also our hope—that it is the intention to make the English Labour BttroatL ai jeally. efficient aij4 poetical help to the industrial ciaaaea m timea oCneed. :

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