Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 150, 9 January 1902, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

If Me Earnshaw’s design was to upset the Gaversham election and lose it for the Labour causa, he must congratulate himself upon his success.— Dunedih Liberal. Premier Seddou, of New Zealand, once kept a public house. There he served bis apprenticeship at drawing measures.—Melbourne Punch. ' For"an unassuming colony we seem to be getting on very nicely in the way of taxation, and to be keeping up the lead as the best taxed country in the world. —Waihi Telegraph. It is admttedly hard to get butter out of a dog’s throat, but the difficulty is not a circumstance compared with getting a true exposition of Government expenditure.—lnglewood Becord The actual expenses of a member while in' Wellington cannot be more than £2 a week—unless he has failings and vices that the electors should not be called upon to provide for.—Oamaru Times. While the Farmers, Union means the extinction of the adventurer and tha party politician, whose only aim is to feather his own nest, it moans the evolution and development of the statesman.—Mar ton Advocate. As to the increase in departmental expenditure, it is patent to every man in the country that innumerable billets have been created for tha only appearent object of rewarding political sup porters and election touts. —Hamilton Argus. Our Premier, in a judicious way, has contrived to keep himself very largely in the eyes of Royalty iVr several years past, and there are very few things the -King would deny him except, perhaps, t)io Crown jewels, or the head of Mr F. Piraui on a charger. Gore Ensign. Premier Seddou’s message of straight talk to Campbell-Bannerman is worthy of imitation ; but it would bo better, perhaps, to hold public meetings throughout Australia to pass resolutions of similar effect.—Sydney Sunday Times. We think civil servants should not be made Commissioners —either they must have a preconceived idea that the Ministers or members can do no wrong, and bring in a report which suits them, or else they suffer the displeasure of those in power-,—Baugitikei Advocate. It is most regrettable that Mr Earnshaw a man of great natural ability and wide political and industrial experience, should have been so led away by his sectarian prejudices as to raise a cry which has never hitherto been raised at a New Zealand election. —Blenheim Express. If Imperial officers had been as a class dependent on their pay there would have been no reports of mobile columns being encumbered with pianos and kitchen ranges, or of nightly jollifications with English beer at 3s 6d per bottle. —Sydney Sunday Times. There is evidently going to be a scramble for one of the vacant M.L.0.ships A correspondent of the Otaki paper urges the claims of Mr George Mcßeath, a local hotelkeeper, Mr Simcox, district hotelkeeper, and Mr John Davies, county chairman.—-Masterton Times.

Campbell-Bannerman bis proBoer backers, hern and elsewhere, appear to think that the British should not only mind, feed, clothe, and medically attend the wives and children of the enemy, but leave their farmhouse rssou-.ce alone also.—Sydney Sunday Times.

It is about time, in the interests of contractors as a whole, that the local bodies put their feet down strongly upon the system of returning deposits in the cases of contractors who do not choose to taka up the works for which they have successfully tendered.— Auckland Observer.

The prompt offer of the Eighth Contingent was the act of a patriot and a statesman ; the rebuke to the pro-Boer politicians at Home was an inspiration of genius ; the Wellington speech, with all its offensive vulgarity, was hardly up to the level of a third-rate professional politician.— Christchurch Press.

The Government remunerates itself and its satellites for creating strife', doubt, discord, and mutual distrust between master and man. The people demanded labous legislation, and we trua tthey have now sipped their fill of it Perhaps, some day, in the near future, they will demand something a little more rational —and get it. —Gor® Ensign. The following address, which was on a newspaper from England reaching the City Council office a few days ago, is eomewhat unique. It was to the following effect : l,l To His Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Christchurch, the Municipal Council Chambers, Durham street, Christchurch, Canterbury, cure of the Lord Mayor s clerk.”—Christchurch Press. ■ As for the ridiculous resolution passed by tbe Wellington Trades Council by a narrow majority, we did not think there were twelve men in New Zealand who, after the war has been going on for more than two years, would have so publicly paraded their utter ignorance of the causes that led up to it.—Christchurch Press.

Premier Jenkins, who came from America as a book agent twenty-five years ago, last weak voted against any man getting work on the conversion of the tramway lines until he has lived in Adelaide for a year. What would have .become of Premier Jenkins in his early days in Adelaide if a similar rule had been in force as to book agents ?—Adelaide Critic.

We of the Commonwealth are as anxious to have the war ended as the people of England are; we are as much concerned as they, and as desirous that the Mother Country should not be called upon to submit for a much greater length of time to the exactions of this sapping struggle. If a big blow is to be struck Australians will be eager to help in making it effective.—Melbourne Punch. What more natural, then, than to do “ one for Great Britain and two for ourselves ”by allowing the former to take .charge of a thousand of our able-bodied young men for a year, to feed and clothe and make use of, thus creating a thousand openings here for those unavoidably discharged from public works and for others returning from, the-war, etc.—Tauranga Times. There is a general concensus of opinion that after the Premier has attendsd the Coronation he will cease to take an active part in M.L, politics. Sir J. G. Ward is the only possible successor to the burly Premier, and tfhen Sir Joseph’s, time does arrive he will . thoroughly the ■Cabinet/, Of comae this is'all in the tic, but Jess 3&elj. thug* fiATebeen