PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

If there had been no provision for a second ballot the Reform candidate at Grey would have been duly elected, though lie bad received only a fraction over \a< third of the vote®. 'He would have represented 2160 electors and misrepresented, in a party sense of course, 4056 electors. That is the sort of thing tihiat would happen all over the country at the General Election next year if the Second Ballot were abolished and the progressive parties were still divided. Naturally it is the sort of thing the Reformers would like "to happen. —Lyttelton Hme®.

The anti-militarists are undoubtedly a small minority, but that seems to be an insufficient reason for allowing them a monopoly of tiomis to Ministers and other forms of public agitation on the question. It would surely be a valuable thing if the voice of the great majority could occasionally reply in 'am authoritative and effective Post.

'At the last census the population of tlhe cities and boroughs in New Zealand was for the first time greater than that of the rural distriuts. The time is not far distant wfhen the Mother Country will be no longer ablfl fo eand emigration o?

physical find raontal stamina as to th» past. Indeed, judging from the «£><>▼« figures it sooroa- that the strength oS the Empire must deteriorate, unlew the Dominions profit by the leesona of older ooun tries and avoid tho evild that result from a preponderance of jbown dwellers. —Auckland Herald.

When ''Liberalism'' to dead ai*3 done for in an Wktono stronghold, and in * situat»n which was admittedly mocra favourable to "Liberalism's" hopes than any situation can «ver be ogain* it is dear enough, that tihere is no hope f«Mr the Opposition in the rest of the catihtry. We' heartily congratulate Mr M&hel on tih© splendid fight ihe has made for Reform, and the proud position £« occrupiesy awcf we wish him all oesw in the final round. —OHristohnrch Press.