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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 914, 12 June 1903, Page 3

One thing appears, to be certain, and that is that the Government will be compelled to seriously face the position 113 the coming session. The voided polls, affectinn so many electors on the one hand, and the peculiar and unsatisfactory position of licenses in those particular districts, leading to increased activity on the part of the “ trade ” on the other band, cannot help but provide Parliament with an interesting problem, and one which will demand prompt and definite solution. Wanganui Chronicle. Gasworks are not always successful as municipal works, but wherever they have been started in municipalities by private enterprise, boroughs have always been anxious to take them over because they are almost invariably highly profitable I affairs,—Carterton Leader.

Thus the W'airarapa Times on Mr Chamberlain But when the wonder has subsided, and the great- experiment proves a great success or a gorgeous failure, the man from whom it emanated will have won for himself an enduring monument aud a distinguished place on the long roll of statesmen who, in failure as well as in success, ever approved themselves patriots. The times that produced this man of the hour were times of unexampled development and progress ; and the man who utilised his opportunities to rear a great structure of Imperialism, will over be ranked among the master minds of a country that has been marvellously pro- I lific in great sons.

It would be much better to create a pension fund, to which every inhabitant of tho country should contribute, and make every resident of New Zealand over say sixty entitled to a pension from this fund. Then the permanency of the system would be assured, and tho reproach that the pension is a charitable grant would be removed. —Observer.