Newspaper Motions

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 37, 16 March 1901, Page 6

Newspaper Motions

WAIHI has advanced during the last three 01 four years bj leaps and bounds. No other town in the colony has displayed such marvellous vitality — no other town has expanded so rapidly — and its growth has not by any means ceased. — V\ ailu Daily Telegraph." • * * They say that New Zealand lias a woiids record tor house hrcs. — Sydney ' Sunday Times." • * * Whatever Mi. beddon's faults may be, he certaimy possesses the \lltue or sticKing to ins friends. — Palmeiston limes. » * * The Maoris were heavily exploited h} the Imperial omceis tor meies, mats, and otner curios — ail generously piesenteci." — Blenheim "Express.' 1 • * ♦ They say that there is not a scrap ol soiled linen in Strattord. It was all washed white and clean at the Mounted Rines' mectin^ on Thursday. — Stiattord "Post." • * * Australian editors must mend their ways, and enlarge their New Zealand telegrams, belore they can hope tor political wedlock witli New Zealand. — Australasian "Review of Reviews." « • ♦ At a recent fire in Wellington, a quantity ol champagne and spirituous liquors vanished, and now various "plants" have been discovered by the police. More will probably be heard ol the matter. — Masterton "Times." • • • Never, in the history of Masterton, has there been such a plethora ol travelling companies in pursuit of name, fame, and stray sixpences in this pait as during the past few weeks. — Ma&terton "Star." • » » Perjury is now a fine art in the local court, and it is practised with impunity at almost every sitting; and if only hait-a-crown is at stake some people will he as if a kingdom depended upon it. — Tapanui "Courier." • • * Mr. Theo. Cooper, the newly-appomt-ed judge, is an active membei ol the AucKiand Chnstian Endeavour Association, and is a total abstainer. Thus four of the judges of the colony are total abstainers. — Clutha "Leader." » • * That New Zealand failed to join the federated States is hardly sufficient reason that she should be excommunicated at the General Post Ofhce. There is now no letter-box to receive letters for New Zealand. — Sydney "Daily Telegraph." The Australian soldiers in Africa were physically and mentally the superiors of the British-born soldiers, and when picked men from several British regiments recently visited Australia the "native" soldiers were seen to hold their own in sturdmess. — Sydney "Mail." • • • When the Imperial troops were in Christchurch the local volunteeis "lushed" the banquet with sucli unseemly haste that several ol the "Tommies" who had not finished gave up their seats and the remainder of their meal to the hungry crowd. — Nelson "Mail." • « * Instead of sending a contingent to Australia, we would prefer to see the money spent in moio fittingly entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Yoik while in New Zealand — the most expressively loyal of Great Britain's dependencies. — Inglewood ' 'Record . " • • • Maonland Government has ordered twenty-two locomotives from the Baldwin Engine Company, of Philadelphia, for use on the railways of that colon > It is to bo hoped that the order won't be executed out of pasteboard and putty like those furnished to tins State — Sydney "Truth." • • • It is not so vciy long since the pha.so "Another lunatic from Wangamu" u,is •served up at the breakfast tables oi Wellington almost a« regularly as th« morning cocoa, and it was not until it dawned upon the manufactuiers of the libellous suggestion that the lunatics, no matter where they were from, were all consigned to Wellington, that it was deemed right to relegate the fabrication to the oblivion of forgotten back numbers. — Wanganui "Chronicle."

Wo cannot pi of ess to have any admiration for Mr. G. W Russell as a politician His attitude of independence, which might otherwise be useful, never seems to us to ha\ c much of a foundation tor honesty about it — Dunedm ' Witness." . • * What is the tiue position to-day .is ic"-aids Federation in New Zealand' Absolutely no public opinion exists. Fiom the published evidence taken bcioie the Commission now sitting here, nothing could be more evident — Auckland ' Star." • * • Ur. Seddon we expect, will find that in "the very weakness of the Opposition will he their strength, and we shall not be surprised to see a \ery large deseition from the top dog's paity before many weeks of the session have gone by.— Woodville "Examiner." • * * Whatever the Austialians may think of the San Francisco service to New Zealand, there can only be one intelligent opinion , it is the shortest, quickest and most reliable route to London, urn as such must be supported and encouraged —Auckland "Herald. * * It is evident that the peace of the woiid at present is but skin-deep, and xt is just as well for Britain that she should be preparing, as she is, tor a contingency which maj speedily arise, though the exact time and place of its coming no one can foresee.— Tauranga "Times." # «. I am surprised that it never occurred to Mr. Seddon to call foi volunteers tor the Federal Contingent, said votunteeis to pay their own expenses, but be accl edited as the colony's lepresentatives. We could lend them uniforms it they have not got any of their own.— Dunedin "Liberal." ♦ • * We notice that Louis de Rougemont has returned to Australia, and we rise to suggest, with due courtesy and humility, that the "Freetrade and Liberal Association" might give that gentleman a job compiling Freetrade statistics for the coming elections.— Adelaide "Critic." * * * For some years past the Wellington band has given us the highest standard of brass band music in New Zealand, and in this way it has been a valuable educational medium to the smaller bands, who have repeatedly gone to the contests knowing tull well that they could not hope to win against their city nvals.— Palmerston "Times." • * * It is reported that one of llic native ofhceis of the Bengal Lancers expressed his astonishment when informed that Mr Seddon was the Prime Minister ot New Zealand. He thought he was somebodj hired by the Government to go about with the Indian Contingent and give "the same old jabber-jabber everywhere. — Ashburton "Mail." * * • It may not be generally known that Australian flour is superior to the New Zealand article, being drier, and therefore capable of absorbing more moistuie and producing more loaves of bread from a given quantity. The fact was brought into prominence by the cvi- , dence given before the Federal Commissum.— Napier "Telegraph." * * * Mr. Ward is a man of large ideas and great enterprise, but sometimes enterprise, like caution, can be carried to an extreme, and result in disaster. It is wiser, as the Scotch put it, to "ca' canny" than to risk a large loss to the whole colony in acquiring a cable service for the benefit of a comparatively small pait of the population.— Napier Herald." * « ♦ The Federation Commission might save the countiy many thousands of pounds by reporting at once that in the interests of the New Zealand manufactuieis it is not desirable to join the Federation, for anyone with half an eye can see that that will be the effect of their report four months hence. The whole thing is an expensive farce. — Carterton "Leader." * • • Now that the Premier has been to Aushaha, seen the inauguration of the Commonwealth and hobnobbed with the leaders of the federal movement, wO hope it will not be long before lie gives us, cither by means of a pamphlet or public address, Ins lmpicssions on the siibiect of federation and the con- ( fusions he has drawn therefrom as regards New Zealand. — Tauranga "Times." « * # Mi John Hutcheson seems to look upon himself as forming with Mr Soddon an Oligarchy oi two 1 mining the colony, and to imagine that ho has got a gnovance because his partnei m the dim has acted a little too independently His pride seems to have boon hurt because the Premier did not ask him if he might visit Australia recently, and that, therefore, he is now entitled to pout, like a precocious youngster who has been spoiled. — Napier "Telegraph."

A man who neglects to place himself dud his wife on the roll under the present liboial franchise gives reason for people to doubt whether he is as intelligent as he would like people to imagine him to be.— Taieri "Advocate." ♦ • • The "Spectator" thanks Parson Elliott, on behalf of the workers of the colony, for this dose of flogging he has given Seddon, and trusts R.J.S. will not bring in a bill next session to abolish the Fourth Commandant or enable him to sit on the reproving cleric. — Christchurch "Spectator." • • • The legislators of New Zealand, in older to encourage industries, have placed a tax on commerce. To foster the artizans, they have built up an artificial system ; and this system, this order of assisted industries, of compulsory v ages, and of interference between n orkman and master grows, as an opium eater grows, insatiate. It must nave more and yet more, and then more will not be sufficient. — Ellesmere "Guardian." * • « The proposed New Zealand Flour Mining Co-operative Association, Limited, is an example of the disposition of a combination to control our most important article of food. We are not desirous of allowing a few men who have a faculty for making money to proclaim definitely that we shall pay what they like for the family loaf, and we are glad that, with our tariff regulations, it is practically impossible for them to effect that purpose. — Auckland "Observer." < » • There is no diedge in the district on w Inch local opinion is so concentrated as the Grey River Company's dredge — certainly not one in which so many Greymouth people possess a direct pecuniary interest. It would be only trying to disguise the real state of affairs to say that there is not a good deal of discontent amongst* the public at the way the dredge is being worked. — Greymouth "Argus." • * • The New Zealand Flourmillers' Cooperative Association, a combination of millers formed with the object of raising the price, has commenced operations. The manager is Mr. T. Meek, and the agents Messrs. D. W. Virtue and Co. Singular, is it not, that two gentlemen bearing such significant names as "Meek" and "Virtue" should thus laise the price of bread and grind the faces of the poor. — Dannevirke "Advocate."