Te Aroha AND TE AROHA TIMES A WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 24 1900 Notes and Comments.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22217, 24 March 1900, Page 2

Te Aroha AND TE AROHA TIMES A WAIORONGOMAI ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 24 1900 Notes and Comments.

Tite' party for “10 o’clock closing-, won a very distinct victory at tlio Licensing- Election in Auckland on "W ednosd aj r 1 a st, th e full Committee in favour of 10 o’clock closing having bom elected. The election for the Ohino muri Electorate takes- place on Thursday next. Considemb'e activity is being shown on behalf of the ‘ People’s Committee.’ The five gentlemen nominated for this ticket, are not rabid Prohibitionists, or extremist 3, but are nevertheless perfectly unencumbered by the Brewery monopoly,, and would in their administration place the pe- >pl e’t> interest in the front, rank and' they have the full support of the friends of temperance; and will, we believe, command the confidence of those desiring an impartial administration of the Licensing laws. We cordially recommend our readers to. vote the whole ticket..

The Licensing- ' Election

Of late a deal of correspondence has been indulged in throughout the colony as to whether or no the Boer, pro-Boer-—or whatever we may call them—should he allowed to flaunt his un-British feelings on the highways and bye-ways. Wo like to bo charitable, but we-cannot say we alfoge l her approve of the thoughtless way in which some of thesp gentry give vent to their feelings in the land in which they have, for the present at least, mado their home. How would a Britisher fare if he was in Pretoria at' the pi‘csent time and spoke in a similar s'rain. Adi laide ‘ Critic 1 says of the pro-Boer —“When the impression was about that the South African war was the Crushing of a, little ißppublic by a big Empire, loyalists suffered the disloyally of the people who wrote and spoke about the Empirp.. There was a kind

Pro-Boers

of shamefacedness about the whole business. But now, when the cables bring through stories of reverses, of hard-fought bhttles, and of the whole tale of the deep laid conspiracy to catch Cape Colony and Natal unprepared, the feeling of resentment against the - pro-Boers is getting very bitter. The Empire’s politics may not be always right, but being into a war there, is no room in the Empire for dislo3 r alists.. There is room for the British haters outside the Empire they decry. Why don’t they ,go outside? The Empire will not miss them.. Their friends, the. Boers, and other British haters will not bo the better for them. But yet it is a pity the} r do not go ; they can be well spared. They would go, only it pays them to stay, which is again a pity. Soon,, if their tongues do not wag. less loosely, it will pay them to go.