Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 171, 4 July 1901, Page 4

Newspaper Ideas.

Is there any good or useful purpose to be served by the publication Of Divorce Court reports'?. We utterly fail to discern eVory doubtful advantage. But the evil results are beyond question, and their extent is incalculable, it ministers to the taste of those who have an unconquerable itch for prurient read* ing. But it makes the judicious grieve, the censure of which, to paraphrase Samlet, must o’erweigh a whole community of others. And it assuredly tends to a quite abnormal prevalence of ’ childish precocity.—Waihi Telegraph. ' The truth is, in or out of the House, there is ne life in the Opposition party. The struggle against Seddoni-m is re* garded as hopeless.—fiunterville press.

The parents *' do not like” to teach their children necessary truths, neither does the State. So each child has to worry onthisfor her own eiperieno jo fc as if no one else had lived in the wuild before. And it is to ignorance in the childhood ifa o’ vious and we'l-known truths that much of the '“ perverted fox mariu” is due—Chri-Hohu.ch BpecU - * tor.”

There have been some very dinvlj f.allu.es in Parliamentary life in New Zealand, but noue more hopeless and complete than Mr Charles Lew's, and - his constitn-mts and the people at largo Will sigh with relief at hia voluntary retirement from a stage on which, at the best, he cut only the sorry figure oi h political iftoant.b fir and mirthless b . v firm..— Auckland Observer.

The Colony’s recept.on will go tr still farther bind the present relations between this and the Mother Country, and the news of the undoubted loyalty of 6ur people will be wdTie : to eve y shore, and the spirit of good feeli -g evidenced will red'Und with credit >0 the new land which has been aptly termed “God’s Own Country.”—Grey* town Standard.

The aim of a member in a pe- - sesssonal or pro-sjsaioual address sho . d be to sinn -up for the benefit of h.s constituents the political position, pa h, present, or to come. He has to pres<. b them with a picture, not with the n erO raw material, out of which they might, if so inclined, construct a picture far themselves.—Dunedin Witness.

Corruption and bribery reign aupremb in W- lington—members are bought an 4 sold, most of them appraising their poor, contemptible little :onls as being worti only £4O sterling in addition to their riOnorarium--but if a man can keep on fighting in the drink-tainted atmosp' A of our House of Representatives, then I e is die more entitled to our regard.—Sout * bridge Guardian. Y*ais ago the Melbourne Argus wroth many leaders to assure the world at ’arge that the legislation New Zealand .vas then bringing in wou d ni st assuredly land that country in financial perdition. These statements do hot reconcile— they don’t “ gang” together. If readers had only good memories and logical minds, how humorous they would find these papers which havO “ fixed opinions” to uphold and manfully uphold them, in defi nee of the most obvious facts.—Melbourne Bunchy If the Government is impotent to pre-

vent the sending of the money td T ttt'i Ball's svVeeps, from New Zealand', the colony should in some way be protected. It is a force to debar people from tr.king shares in sweeps in thd colony, yet they can with impunity send it elsewhere. The present system, or want of system, may suit as a blind, td, humbug people who know no better, but it is a great loss to the S'r-ate without any compensating advantage in the way - of a lessened amount of gambling.—Gisborne Times.

UaleaS it can be clearly demonstrated that the .average boy is.,hotter* taught than tho average girl, one of-the maid arguments for paying men better thad women falls to the ground.—Wanganui Chronicle.

We bdieve that Great Britain couli have been a much greater nation to-day —far more respected and beloved, \ty the people of other nations, and would' - have exercised a far greater and more beneficent influence over the whole world—lf she bad not resorted to ahni bo frequently in the past, and if a policy of kind conciliation and respect for the national rights cf other pebples and races had been adopted, and the passion for conquest had not been so generally indulged in.—Onehunga Chronicle. Blow many wars has not J ngoisni prevented, and how many bloody ware has nob “ peace at any price” caused ? Northern paper. We long for the time when New Zealand will shake itself free from the fetters wbicfinoW bind all classes in the commuuity, and when every man in thd colony, is, as he was twenty ' years ago- r dependent upon his right hand, .and in no fear of “ Him who must be’ obeyed.’* The colony may have progressed—but it has lost its birth fight of liberty in the process,—Mastei ton Times. The compressing of five moqtho Parliamentary work at Wellington into three tends to confine legislative work to the physically strong rather than tn the mentally acute, to bring about slip* shod results tfhich find their amendments in the law courts, and 1o ondu’y hamper minorities.—Napier Telegraph. ,j_ Only in Auckland will be .found such thoroughfares—float! g with mud in winter, diversified with loose tolling stones in summer, and at all times and seasons presenting a surface which seems to have been modelled on a “switch* back,’ 1 slightly reduced in scale.—Anoka . land Star. t

Bir J. G. Ward has well earned bit distinction. If any Cabinet Mini-ttf merited honours be did. I'iom a telegraph messenger boy be hac, by bis own | grit add industry, succeeded to the I proud distinction he now holdet-Napier (Telegraph.