Newspaper Notions

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 81, 18 January 1902, Page 7

Newspaper Notions

IN Auckland, the brewers are all Jews , in Wellington they are R.C's Holders of tied houses say that they fare just as well under Oi) - lot as under the other. — Sydne\ Bull tin." Mr. Seddon the New Zealand Premier will, if the King desires it, send a Maori contingent to the Coronation — London "Express." "Young Australians who can't be bus 1 ' rangers want to be lawyers " Calledfor criticism by an observant EnghJi visitor. — Melbourne "Punch ' * •> To borrow and squander would be • joyous policy if there were no day of reckoning, but the power to pursue this is limited by fixed laws — Auckland "Star." * * * If Mr. Barclay could be persuaded to visit the Contingent camp and bestow his opinions — by way of address valedictory or benedictory — on the men he might find there the result would be worth recording — Dunedin "Witness '' * * * Whatever ma' be said of Mr. Seddon it must be conceded to him that he he accomplished more for the working classes than any other statesman 01 legislator of our time, in this or any other country has done — Auckland "Observer." ¥■ *• * In a recent application for a prohibition order, the defendant pleaded very hard with the Court that it short H post-date the order till after Nen Year's Day and not cut off his liquor just as the holidays were coming o;i The Bench, however, put it in force at onee — Waihi "Telegraph." While we did not raise a.n> particul 1 objection to the arrest of Chinese an r l the prevention of gambling by Celestials who-, may we ask, do we strain at tl n Chinese gnat and swallow our own can, . in the shape of huee gambling hells "i the city of Wellington o—Carterton0 — Carterton "Leader."

We have been requested by an old age pensioner to state that if the lady whc appropriated a supply of onionb from his garden on New Year's Day waits on the owner, he wall present her with a packed of seeds, in order that she may giow her own in future. — Te Aroha, News." President Roosevelt will not consider the idea of American mteiference with the affairs of England in South Africa We should think not. What if England were to talk of taking up a stand with the people of the Philippines against the American invadeis — Melbourne 'Punch " It is a noticeable f act that most of th<men who are ready to return to Safrici have not even yet obtained permanent employment. Which shows how lucky Seddon is in being about to clear out a thousand men, at the cost of the Impel ial Government. — Chnstchurch "Specta toi ' * * * What makes German hostility the more remarkable is that we have in this country a very large German colony, which we believe, finds no reason to complain of its treatment, and that wherever our flag flies there are German^ making money under equal laws and with every advantage that belongs to our own subjects — London "Times " * < + Thank Heaven, we have at the head of affairs in this colony a man who makes his voice heard throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire, and who has shown himself a true Britisher in the matter of the South African war. Were it worth wasting on such a contemptible individual we could pity Barelav m hi^ lavmgs. — W T oodville Examiner " » *■ * Max O'Rell has been telling the San Franciscans that New Zealand democracy is essentially different from that of Australia, and that the result is Little New Zealand has eight large cities while New South W 7 ales and Victoria have only on© each." It would not make a bad catch question in a Sydney school examination "Name the oigrht large cities of New Zealand '" — Svdne\ "Sunday Times " » • * Members of the party .should also hold the opinion that the best recognition of Mr. Seddon's service will be to vote for him at next election, though of course, it will (Mitneh depend on his attitude to the country party whether he is sent back with a majority or relegated to the cold shades of the Opposition.'' If lip is in opposition, we may however, depend that it will be an O"~osition w ortliv of the name — Rangitikei "Advocate ''

When things are dull in most place*, New Zealand, like Africa, can always be relied upon, lor something fresh. — Sydney "Mail." « * # The Tweefonteias of all campaigns and of all periods, are the only incidents by which we can rightly judge of the magnitude of the crime of sleeping upon outpost duty. — Napier "Telegraph." *• * * An old gentleman, when passing a youngster selling newspapers at a street corner, remarked "Are you not afraid you will catch cold on such a wet night, my little man?" "Oh, no," replied the boy "selling newspapers keeps up the circulation, sir'" — Napier "Telegraph." * • • Conscription, as it is known on the Continent, is unnecessary, and would not be tolerated, but Englishmen in future v i need to submit to some form of general training in the use of arms, if the nation is to rest secure. — Christehuich 'Press " * * * Men and newspapers have changed then politics, and immediately they have done so honours and emoluments have been given to them or disabilities formerly recorded against them have been removed. The inference is that it ..s this change of "political colour," and not any improvement in their capacity to serve the country, which has led to the altered treatment. — Hawera "Star." * * * Many years ago, Mr. Chamberlain said that British trade was so carried on that he was forced to the conclusion that British manufacturers really believed the colonial and foreign purchaser should kneel and give thanks to God every night that there was such an individual as a British manufacturer. — -Carterton "Times." * • * As an individual, Mr. Barclay might rave and ramp to his heart's content, and take his chance with an indignant populace. The trouble is that he speaks as a representative of a New Zealand city constituency, and his remarks will probably be transmitted to the Pro-Boer camp at Home, and thence to the misguided Boers in the field. --Wanganui "Chronicle." * # • We do not object so much to Mr. Barclay holding the views he does on the merits of the Boer war, for this is a free country to su certain extent, as we do to his unnecessary parade of them at the present time, especially when he rfhows that he is prepared to take the barest and baldest assumption for gospel truth in a way hardly to be expected of the most credulous of humanity. — Palmorston "Standard."

The great blot on the Government administration xn connection with the despatch of the Contingents has been the discreditable manner in which politics' and personal influences have been allowed to interfere with the selection of the officers.— Ohristchurch "Press." » * * Well, if Seddon goes Home for coronation he can go at his own expense. He needn't ask th» country to "foot the hill" after shutting down public works Dick refused to be knighted, but he's left his country benighted. — Carterton "Observer." • • • The present seems an opportune time to urge upon the Home Government the establishment of an Imperial zollverein or "customs-union." This has long been urged by many colonial writers, and now that the Home authorities are bubbling over with goodwill towards the colonies, they could scarcely, with decency, refuse to, at least, seriously consider such a proposal.- — Bruce "Herald."