Newspaper ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 15 October 1901, Page 3

Newspaper ideas.

We are called the backbone of the country; but >vh»b ie the Rood of a. backbone with the marrow Bucked out of it ?—Templeton Firmer. The Government can now no more cease to borrow money than they can cease to be' extravagant, and whether for a brief, or an extended period we oan only wait tbs climax. —North Otago Timw

As for the Upper House, that has been a refuge foe respectable old derelicts long enough, and should either be abolished altogether or uformed by sweeping out all the ancient relics over sixty years of age —Hastings Bulletin. r ' s Premier Heddon is said to be wearying of the demnition grind of politics, and people are talking of his being made Governor of the Orange River Colony, in Soatti Africa, after the coronation. Dick would bj a good strong man to turn loose on the Boers, —Melbourne Punch. Tbe Government are about to bring in a BUI to regulate the practice of dentistry. At‘present the pulling oat of teeth is such a profitable gams that all sorts of amateurs are putting up brassplates—they have plenty of brass in their own composition to supply one for every door—and starting in to make money.—Adelaide Critic. Attempts have been made to minimise the’gravity of the statements of Sydney Truth concerning juvenile immorality in the! principal Maoriland centres. But that Government has been compelled to introduce legislation bearing anon the subject is an ice-cold fact which will take more than a casual sneer or tVo to upset.—Christchurch Spectator. * Barnum was a clever advertiser of himself and his show, and the system adopted by the Premier on any and every occasionwhich has offered of doing the same for himself and New Zealand 1 suggests that he has oloeely studied the literature bearing on the parser of that remarkable Argos. •At the present moment ISTew Zealand presents an object lesson both.-in <progreMivtpolUics and inlsbour, legislation. It* W ahown tb* world not what to loiiUtei 'bnt wimt to avpld.*-Glasgow BL«al<t , , '"I * v 'V