Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 135, 30 November 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

The mother hen cannot always ■shield all Her chickens from tffi hawk, and New Zealand is the furthest wanderer from the pro tenting wing.—Wanganui Chron icle.

Altogether the attempt to digest what nas been dune during the past few months hy oar law makers leaves one with rather a bad lasie in the mouth. Woodalie Examiner.

George Keid’s opinion of a brother politician : ■* lie has a cool cheGt —so cool that that if ha put milk imo his mouth it becomes ice cream before he gets it down.” —Alelbourne Punch.

Mr Seddoa has been a strong man, hut the basis of his strength has not bean of sufficient strength to weigh down his polifeal aspirations. He has striven to be a statesman, but cannot rise above the more politician. —Ellesmere Guardian,

A statesman is an individual who can succeed in deluding his fellow-count,ry-men until such time as be makes n pile: ergo, it will ultimately bo discovered that Bar ton is a statesman after all.—Sydney Truth.

Vv r o feel sura that there will be much dissatisfaction throughout the colony over the increase ot payment to members, more especially as there are so many public works which are being deferred for want of funds.—Eketahuna Express, The presentation business is now worked for all it is worth ia* the Railway Department, and when officials .are removed from one district to another it is quite the tiling for porter Jones or shunter liroivn to get a testimonial. —Tapanui Courier.

Mr tvMdon has once more proved himself the strong man of Parliament and the Opposition, when the crucial test came of prolonged and determined fight “ caved in” ingommoubly, ami left the honourable gentleman an easy victor. —Blenheim Express.

The lack of grass iu New Zealand caused one small sheep farmer to feed his .lamha ou oatmeal and diluted whisky. The old tea, party should have this practice stopped, otherwise young sheep so matured might develop iuto dipsomaniacs. —Sydney Truth.

The Seddoa Government will go down to posterity, not as a Government that has done good to the colony, hut as one that has, by its short sighted policy towards the schema of Australian Federation, committed the colony to a policy of isolation. —Southbridge Guardian. We hope that Captain Russell may remain in public life for many years to come, for, however much we may dissent from soma of his political views, we cannot fail to recognise his many splendid qualities as a spirited leader, a courteous gentleman, and a constant friend. Lyttelton Times.

In our opinion is it rather hard upon the Premier, whose remarks (regarding the despatch of further contingents) were natural enough on the occasion when they were uttered. We fall to discover the intention to send more Contingents to South Africa, but we agree with our contemporary that there is no necessity for doing so at the present juncture. —Timaru Herald.

There is no town in the colony where the dwellings of the people are so densely bunched up together as they are in Wellington, and yet this, of all places, has surrendered itself blindly to a system of rating that offers every inducement for building high and building close— a system that discourages the keeping of gardens and open places.— Wellington Free Lance on unimproved rates, It’s a peculiar Coincidence that when any important political conference has to take place in Meiboms'the date almost invariably is arranged about Cup time. The conference of Interstate Premiers* for example Doul't less it is only a coincidence, but it does seem strange that all the men-of-war on the Australian station should also find it necessary,, for weighty reasons, to rendezvous in Hobson’s Bay early in November every year,— Sydney Newsletter,