PRESS OPINIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 23 September 1902, Page 3

PRESS OPINIONS.

Thore is an air of candour about the latest professions of tho militant Mr Reitz that is refreshing. This remnant of a wrecked Government has time to think of

himself. Others of a more altruistic tendency may devolo themselves to Sister and Brother Boer first, being content to subsist on crumbs falling from feasts of their own providing; but not so Reitz, Ho will lecture, so ho says, and thus show that in him at least tho Boer cause is neither dead nor sleeping, but ho will lecturo first and foremost for his own pocket. There is no reason why he should not do so. Men have lectured on less provocation. Ho kuows a few things about the war—if he would only toll all ho knew what entrancing lectures ho could give—and with a *’ live ” agent to go ahead of him and “ boom ” him throughout the United States he ought to make a little fortune.—Telegraph. Whatever trut , there may be in the hints that the Government aro interested

in securing a monopoly for Messrs E. M. Smith ancl Cadmau in regard to the ironsand deposits at Parapara —a suggestion, by tho way, indignantly repudiated by thoso interested —there seems no reason to dispute the suggestion that the colony as a whole must benefit largely by any successful attempt to deal with its ironsand.—Napier Telegraph. Tho schools are not godless, and godless they are never likely to become; but they are .secular —in that the State does not accept delegation from the parents in the matter of religious responsibilities—and Becular they are likely to remain.— Dunedin Star.