Things political are disgracefully low at the present time, but it will he worse for New Zealand if the time arrives when a party in power can successfully control all elections. Triumphant Tammanyism will then be firmly established, and it will be found much more difficult to destroy it here than it was in New York.—Rangitikei Advocate. The shrewdest man m the colony (Mr Seddon) is setting us a good example, for lie is putting his house in order discarding the unprofitable coonerative laborer, and pinning his faith to the working settler. The new year will not- catch him napping ! Before bad weather comes he shortens sail and clears his deck of top hamper.— Masterton Times. , , The Dunedin Star can hardly he commended for reviving the suggestion that accommodation should be found in” New Zealand for surrendered Boers. We should either have to establish a Boer camp, on the lines of those_ m Ceylon and India, or absorb the Afrikanders as ordinary population. Both suggestions are open to very' gra.'e 00* iectious.—ChristcliurcU Tunes*
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 313, 14 January 1902, Page 3
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