Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 172, 6 July 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

Sir Joseph Ward’ K.C,M,G., ia gifted with an enerery and a capacity for work which recalls Sydney Smith’s exhorts* tion to Lord Brougham not to do more ■ •work than six ordinary men oould undertake—New Zealand Tablet. It will bo a bad day for the British race wqentby drop this natural manlineis and pride of race to Cringe and beg of Government for work as a means of sus' enanoe. —Greymouth Argna. We believe ourselves* that before long five thousand farmers in New Bealan'V enrolled in “ The New Zealand 1 arme. ’a Union;” wili speak "to the Govrrnnu nl ju a way that our rulera ase, as yet, unaccustomed to.-fca ß tefbon Times. The proper taxable estimate, it saems t 0 u ,, is moat fairly realist by ascer taining the annual return I ’and put to its mo g st profitable and Ultimate us % and thereupon to calculate the capttalned value of tba» amount at the curreut mo o! interest. This ia a process which has* every element el fairness, whilst that obtobing at present is nothing short of an act of oppressmn.Petohe Chronicle. / Mr Commissioner -Tunbridge got a silver cigarette ,caso |rom which be may

get puffs for . the R yal pur. He also received a photo, an ! was informed that the police force was the ffti'St in the w<r!d. The Royal pai especially admiod tl e : r whici| hej said reminded them of ’Ome —Exchange. How isthis for a prohibition district The Tapanui Courier says : —“ The boys got in a two ga’lon lar to celebrate the Book’s arrival. Two of th:m got * poUoded,’ and the medico fixed them nip. 7 * Piok-me ups’ were in strong demand last week. Some men have a terrible craving for alcoholic liquors. Clutha should try and get licenses back, and shut up the grog shanties. Drunkenness is increasing at an alarming rate in many of the cities. Scores of intoxicated youths can be seen nightly in some of the big towns. The lax administration of the licensing law fosters the evil, and some hotelkeepers never close their doors night and day. TheTaieii Advocate soya 5 —A smart commevciai man in Dunedin says that there are some very clever mining swindles *in the ah” just now. Dredge ing shareholders are being tired out, and Weary of waiting, they will clamour for liquidation and their desires will be promptly attended to. Then ?he knowone* come in. Cunning little-“ shindy .Uita” will be foimed, • dredges and good cl dins will bed ought for an add song, and then the shekels will come rolling in and the cunning know! ;g ones will he rewarded for their patience and virtue.” Our own opinion is Ihst a good many mining m n oug-it to be studying geology at the Heads um-'er the tuition of lir'j Phill'ps.

Precisely in what way the royal visit will sirengtlien the bonds of empire no one stems able to define. It, D ve’y certain the future Kng ha* learned nothing of his \ ieit. Surrounded by iha stato of a min io court, he has absoh tely no chance of b co ning acquainted with co onlal conditions, and when lie a; m s the throne will know just us mu ;h ub ul the new world as if be had seen a passable kinen itograph of the scenes aping:he road. There are some thousand* of more or less nondescript persons who have been done the honour of being p rmitted to shake hands with the Du -.e, ami we u-.vo hiard. of some who under similar circumstances have worn a glove ou idle honoured hand for ever after. But, alas, history tells m how evauesc nt loyalty is which is evoked under such circumstances, and the sycophant of to-day may become the enemy of to-morrow.