Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 136, 3 December 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

So far as a prodigality of wasteful and altogether unnecessary expenditure is ‘concerned the past year has been unique—Clutlia Leader. The Wellington City authorities cannot see six inches before their noses, and never could. A more,pur blind corporation could hardly be found in Christendom—Picton Press.

Two “ c iminal ” cases were'brought I'.g-iinst two business men hero tor broach of the Shop Act. Oar laws are not they manufacture *• criminal»” Tor isucu petty olibuces.— Boston Herald.

Nelson is discussing the construction of an ambitious ship canal, which wit; convert tlio lowa into a port with docks and omer appurtenai c -a, and lam enable it to compete with Wei ling ion.—Napier ( Telegraph.

'With regard to the increases honor ariuin of members, unless wo artgmaily mistaken, the p-'oole of tlnoniony will speak -very ’-plainly'on thimatter when the next general election is 1)<-Id. —Carterton Observer.

Mr Sodden will never Btipprcs.--on • ki-:*_j among small boys mud he •ntjjpre-.se.-! the small boys them solves. And if ihe birUMate’contimios to go from oa(1 to w orsu as at present mis will happen very aeon.—.Dunedin Tablet.

A niimuir lias been current during tin- pa-.t few days in Groymouth that tii) Govornmonfc intend taking over the Goal Creole and Point Elizabeth mines as State coal mines. Wo cannot vouch for the authenticity of the statement. —Hokitika Tiaras.

Night after night, week in week out, a select coterie of Oppositionists played the game known as “ full galleries and limelight,” and bat for that disgraceful waste of time, the session could have been curtailed or much more work done. —Carterton Leader.

More plundering ! Among theitems on 11io fSnpplorm.-nuiry Estimates was iho lollowmg: Additional allowance to members of Parliament who were nn-mbcrti Federation Commission, A motion to strike out the vote was lost by twenty-three to fourteen.— Pabucr.sion Tunes.

Gambling in miring shares has h.-come ipihe a craz-s in New Zealand of "late years, and it is well that the pubdc have at last awakened to the tin.; stale of things. There is sufhoient evidence id j-i.--.lify the assertion that the game has bean systourati caliy worked in Umgo.— Hannovirke Ad vocate.

Tiio manner in which legislation was carried through during the last few days of Parliament is little short of disgraceful. Tire House wasted so modi time iit the (■in ner months of the session that it had barely begun to work when members were itching to get hade to their homes. —Christc.mrclr Times.

Urn.' Premier in a judicious way has contrived to keep himself very largely iu the eye of, Royally for some years past, and there are very few things the King would deny him, except perhaps me Crown jewels' or the head of Mr E. i’lraui on a charger. What form his reward will take depends largely upon his own desires. —Coro Ensign.

We had a taste of the much lauded “drastic dicipline” in New Zealand at the time of the Maori War. and volumes could be written of the disasters in a small way that followed it. Sir Hector is a fighting man—as good as stands in the army, but to come a distance of sixteen or seventeen thousand miles to preach “ drastic discipline is lather good.—Waihi Daily Telegraph. In no country in which the English language is spoken is Urn declension in the birth rale so striking, and, for many reasons, so unaccountable and so interly indefensible as in New Zealand—a country the most favoured by Nature in lue world, a country that could maintain a population of thirty millions, though it has a population of omy about three quarters of a million. —Tuapt ka Times. J; seems, however, that Mr Seddon is loth to let the Conciliation Boards go. 'They ate Ins own creation, and their abolition writes failure on that part of his policy. However, he has decided to give the new system a trial until next session, and, unless wo are much mistaken in our opinion, this moans that Conciliation Boards will quietly pass out into darkness and ooiivion.—Auckland Observer. Before the New Zealand Parliament there is now an act that provides for the safekeeping in the colony of relics of Maoriiand’s young days. Very likely it is found necessary to pass such an Act for fear of another visit from llovalty, who like the putty Jook,. would give in return to the Maoris for priceless curios a copper medal or signed photograph that any pawnbroker would think twice before lending threepence on it.—Sydney Newsletter.

Among those who frequent the Chinese dens are young girls scarcely out of their teens, old women who have spent the beat part of their lives wallowing in vice of every description, aud men and boys who have become infatuated with the gaming table, and who are bringing ruin and desolation on their homes and families. All this, and worse, at present exists in Greymoutb.— Brunner New*, on the Chinese opium hells of Greymouth.

Mr Chamberlain would, no doubt, accept any further offer of colonial troops, as we learn to day has been done in the case of Canada ; bulj it is not the men ho wants, but the object lesson to the nations of the sustained supnort of the self governing colonies ol .ha Empire. When more men are neeuod, wo shall be the first to advocate their going hence, but there is no present need, and the evident desire of the Premier to send further troops to the front can only be dictated by a spirit of vainglorious -Jingoism.’’ —Evening Post. •