Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 174, 11 July 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

The invitations to the reception by the Duchess wore very mixed, and soma who got them were not unknown at shilling hops. Also horse thieves, pickpockets, and others with indifferent reputations —anyone, in fact, who, had the means to buy themselves in. That was the only test “ social status.” But then this is a truly Democratic country, therein the man who bas done time in gaol is looked upon as quite as respectable as the judge who sent him there—and possibly more so. If it wasn’t for one the other couldn’t exist. —N.Z. Bulletin;

According to the Premier, it is the intention of the Government to go in for State-owned ocean tramps. Rather a large order-, but a wellin formed correspondent states be has reason to believe the Cabinet is in earnest, and proposals under this head will be the cardinal feature of the Financial Statement. As the purchase or construction of each such vessel would cost fully £75,000, the probabilities are tbat something like three-quarters of a million sterling will be asked for by the Treasurer to give effect to the proposal—Free Press. Says Wellington Free Lance : The sly-grog policeman is often more sinned against than sinning; but some of the dodges of the craft are despicably mean. Two “ sailors” who were of ibis variety, recently stayed in a boardinghouse on Banks Peninsula for a week, the last day of their stay being honoured by the appearance of the whisky bottle. The “sailors” drank the Whisky, threw a shilling down, and departed. Fine, £5. N A mofe flagrant case of the vile methods of informers is a recent New South Vales one, in which a policeman, sent to bury a man found dead in the bush, became sick, and stayed, with a boundary fider. The man nursed the policeman for a fortnight, and frequently administered whisky. Hating recovered, the policeman insisted on paying ten shillings for a bottle of whisky the man gave him to “ see him on the road,” and' he at once laid ah information for selling; and a conviction " wanglecorded. It is with unhallowed jcjr we bear that the policeman is now wearing a tight-fitting costume of tar and feathers in plade of the uniform he disgraces.