Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 180, 25 July 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

The Royal smiles and the wine of Impenalism have evidently gone to the head of the Premier, and his ambitions for the present appear to be altogether above the small things of the colony. .—Lawrence Times. Underwriters are much agitated With respect to the Slate Fire Insurance Bill. They have suffered pretty well in fire losses during the past two years, and the current year promises to be quite as bad as its predecessors. Daring the first six months, according to the statistics compiled by the Mercantile Record, there were 187 fires in the colony, involving- an insurance loss of £241,332, and of this the North Island is reapmsible for the 10-s of in 125 fires. When there ace those continuous and heavy losses, the only oohrse open to the Underwriters is to raise the rates, although it is not the happiest mode of applying a corrective. State fire insurance ;s open to many serious objections, but it the people: demand it tb6y must get it. Experience alone will demonstrate to them the risky nature of fire tmderwutlng.-’-Pree Lance.