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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1530, 11 August 1905, Page 4

As a class the New Zealand policeman has no superior knowledge in intelligence and honesty. Black sheep will be found amongst every fleck, ministers of religion and the polioo and the police foroo not excepted, but iu both avocations there iB a smaller peroentsgo of criminnls than in other caTings.—Cambridge Independent. No land system has yet been devised which has tolerated absentee ownership without at onoe admitting tho evils of land jobbing, and though tho enforcement of personal residence as a condition of the tenancy works considerable hardspip in exceptional oases, we do not . know of any tnoro efficient safeguard against the landshark and the speculator.—Wellington Post. , . „ . Tho objection to the second ballot are so plain that we cannot quite understand its fascination for some reformers. It involves an entirely unnecessary waste of time and money, and even if seoobd ballots should bo roquired in only three or four electorates the objection would still hold good. It would bo impossible to obtain on the socond appeal anything like the interest ruling on general elcolion day.— Christchuroh Times. Tho Commissioners appear to have done their work with a due Bonse of its high responsibility, and whatever may be the outoome of the option-of-purchase agitation, tho dooument nndor review will be of great use in tho work of improving the colony’s land system for the benefit of the settlers and of the whole community. —Hamilton Times, on the Land GommisIt is easy enough to demand that tho Council shall bo made directly representative of tho people, and if wo fully sympathise with the demand ; but it is by no means certain tbat by setting up one Chamber elected in a different way from the othor Chamber we should got to ihe end of our troubles.—Christohuroh Times. Any further developments of State industries or State control must each be considered on its merits, and only permitted if, after a full examination, it appears that the State can undertake tho work with greater advantage to the community than private enterprise could do. —Masterton AS The Government, if they granted the freehold, would be able to go on resuming suitable properties without making farther application to the monoy-londora and without increasing the general debt of the colony. That is a very desirable object, and one that should have had more weight with the Commission than it appears to have had. —Napier Herald.