Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 101, 12 September 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

To* Farm*™' Unioa has alroadj a big membership roU, but it tus y«t to be trird in the (ire. The solidity of its r*nks, tt.e earnestness of its members, *nrt the strength of their loyalty to the Union have all to be tested, »nd the test may not only be a severe but a long one, extending over many years.—Tuapeka Times. Should Mr Seddon happen to drop across Sir George O'Brien in England, well, we pity the traducer of New Z«srlandt—Marlborough Press. The Premier's many appointments to tke Legislative Council, for instance, are quite sufficient to convince anyone that he is no admirer of the agriculturalist.— Palmerston Standards And if a New Zealand Contingent is to be sent Home to take part ia the pageantß connected with His Majesty's coronation, next) year, the bullet-shy should be scrupulously weeded out of it.—Marlborough Press. The wonder is that the pro-Boara do not perpatually denounce the barbarism aod brutality of our soldiers in firiog off dangerous rifles and things in localities where their saintly Boers might get hurt by the ballets.—Mount Ida Chronicle.

And, by the way, why should the Union be confined to men? Why not include the farmer*' wives and daughters, who milk the oows, and make the butter, and feed the pigs and calves* and look after the poultry ?—Hastings Bulletin. Two Newcastle boys were sent to the Sobraon for a month for stealing a Testament. Looks like disooun>giug juvenile piety.—Syduey Truth, lb only now remains for tha Unionist agitators to make Parliament do the work the Court is too honourable to do, and legalise still further spoliation and robbery.—Elleamere Guardian. New Zealand has interfered wich private enterprise to a large and mob* unwiirrau table extent, and when the day of reckoning arrives the puni*hment for transgression will fall heavily on the labour party.— Maeterton Times.

i'ArMBiB recognise that the high protective tariff and the tyranny and aelfUshtieas of- Tradas Unionists, which add inordinately to tua price of the goods they must purchase, po ft very long way toward? neutralisiug tiie couseg*ions they have received. Unlike these people, the farmer does not want all the cake he can grab J he is prepared to livo and lot live—Waikato Argus.

For whether he is addressing in the roughest L»nciM»hiro vernaoular the diggers of the West Coast, or dining with Vice-Royalty, or enjoying himself in a country pnb, or feasting at a Maori pah, or preaching prohibition to pruhibitionista or singing " The Wearing o' the Gret-b" at a publican's shivoo, or taking part in a Ma*ouio investiture, or opening a Catholic bazaar, or addressing a congregation of Sunday tchdol scholars, of firing ehain-lightnittg epithet* at his much enduring secretaries, or blackguarding a recalcitrant Cabinet Minister, or cozening a caucus—in each of any of these capacities and a hundred others Mr Seddon is equally at homo. "The Boss can shako a leg in any company."—Christchureh Truth'

Woolley’s mission to the colony Is to obtain rest and dol’ars. Ha travels on guarantees furnished by places thaj want to hear the “Great American Orator.” Great snakes l —an orator I Otago Liberal. The misunderstanding between'some of the South African contingents and the New South Wales military authorities with reference to the rates of pay the soldiers were to receive whilst on active service is, says the Sydney Star, about to be settled in favour of the men. In the Assembly the Premier, replying to a question, said there was no doubt there was an entire - misunderstanding > had arisen on .the point; He had, however, determined that the men should not be ' disappointed,' and towards that end he intended to place a srun of £12,000 on the estimates f->r the consideration ofParliament, in order thafjustice might be done men, who Were under the impression that.they were entitled to the 4s 6d per day, as well as to the Is 2d per day, '

The Doa-idin batchers fiaye^wd-ttwl^ "the recent award of the Arbitration Court.'*; The dispute referreS to th«r Court was in refererce to the allowance <>* 5s a week to Buopmen,oir ineat to tha* of 12s a week in a sliop kaployißß three handsi Yet in snch * shop the extra penny a ponnd will nsem an increase of about £4O a week in th© botcher's takings. No wonder the cob» tomerafail to see where " the equality of sacrifice " comes in.—Fne Press; " Money is very plentiful in Wellington at present. The hotels are full o* boarders, and the bars are crowded with thirsty pleasure-seekers. Latt Saturday afternoon 9000 people viewed a football, match; in the evening 20,000, well dressed, paraded the streets, and four theatres and a dog show had the placard "Standing room only." It is estimated t*>at the population in the Ftnpire City daring seven hours on Saturday spent £IOOO in amusement. The rumour that i he colony is racing to bankruptcy seems about as weak as the cold tea rf a sixpenny restaurant—Carterton L-ader. •

To subsidise a foreign service avowedlyhostile to British trade is, in our opinion, an act of gross disloya'ty to the Mother Country. To give a sttbsily for an inferior service argues extreme foo'ish-. ness as well pa dis'oy&lty. There is no ikelihood that Australia will subsidise the American service. What- both'New Zealand and the Commonwealth ought to strive after is the establishment of aa all-red service via Vancouver.—Pre«. It is greitly t<> bo regretted that Mr Seddon's rigid economy in dealing with the public finances did not commence considerably earlier. In oar opinion he h tie most extravagant Treasurer the colony has had since the days w&en the Orey Ministry nesrly brought temporary ruin upCa. New Zealand. This year's Budget, though the Premier clamed that it was eoonoaai jal, w s more extravagant than its predecessor a.— Timaru Herald: