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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 5 November 1901, Page 4

The cautiousness that ia everywhere being displayed may prove a good thing —we Biacerely hope it will—but thesituation, with its furboding o' evil time-', is an uneasy one, and jdub* cause anxiety to people in business. L.bouc legislation is largely reeponsibie for it.—Gisborne Her«ld. An inane proposed has been that Ministers should be fined £5 each, and M'a.H.B. £1 each for every Bill sacrificed during the annual slaughter o£ the innocents, There is already more legislation on the M.L. Statute Book than is found necessary for the whole of the. remainder of the British-speaking world. And that the prospect of mora is deferred for & brief year or two is. timely rather a matter for congratulation than sorrow.—Chriatchurch Spectator; Even the purblind press may yet recognise that the question is not tha*» Maoriiand butter will pay an extra* penny a pound duty, or that the Victorian " brolly" )s advantaged, but that Kingston's tariff ensures Tasmania'ssolvency. Of what use the advantage* of Freetrade to au insolvent State t Fat is hats would be cheap, and th* Calico Jimmy would cootiuue to offer for sale sixpenny cap*' and expensive gamps, but to wh<t pnrpoao if poor John tiuiiib were out of 'work ?—Hobart Clipper.

if the Government admit the equality of ihe soxe«, it should send aiong aa many girls a 8 boys into the service, seeing that under existing conditions they are admittedly equally qualified. 'ln tho meantime, however, those girls who wish to kill time for a few years gre> keeping out boys who want to do some* thing more. The boys waut to keep their billets s>o that ultimately they may keep the girls.—Free Lance. New Zealand is at iasc attracting tho> attention of Englit-h papers, bat tog, Premier would probably pr.ier the criticism* to appear moie favourable to the legislation of a coaotiy that is Bupposed to lead the war. As a matter of fact, however, the "grandmotherly legislation" introduced by the present Governmentis going too far, and if English witters e«n assist in any way to stem the tide, they will be the means of doing, * fcood tarn to the colony.—Grtytowa Standard. ',■ '■..■■■■, . -\ . .