Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 152, 14 January 1902, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

It is about time tnafc tho method of appointing Governors wag abrogated in favour of an elected Governor.— <■ Palmerstown Standard. Judging from the bankruptcy statistics, the financial position of tho trading classes was never bettor. Tu3 Official Assignees throughout the colony are practically out of employment. —Mercantile Gazette. The San calls the Journal an Anarchist and a ruffian, and the Journal calls The Sun a blackguard aud a mercenary hireling. It isn't polite in either of them, but it is better than telling lies about each other. — Boston Pilot. And what will be the position of labour in thisoolony next winter, when the bulk of the oontingeuts will, in all probability, have returned, should private emplayment fall off, and the present stringency as regards lonn money continue ?—ChristcUurch Presa. The fact of the matter is that Premier Seddon i» in ft tight corner: his surpluses are bogus, the excheqiK-r is badly lined, and the' borrowed million muro than mortgaged 1 Yet he prutas and preaches that." we bad better go slow-." —lnglawoodJßecord. The Government has not fulfilled all its promises with regard to the encouragement of. rifle shoolitjg. We have heard nothing of late of the rilld clubs which were to be established to enable civilians living soma distance from.volunteer centres to obtain shooting practice cheaply.—Clmsichurch Times.

Things political arc disgracefully low at the present time, but it will be worse for New Zealand if tho time arrive when a party in power can successfully control all election?. Triumphant Tammanyism Avill thon be firmly established, and it Avill bo found much more difficult to destroy it here than it was in New York.-—Kangiiikei Advocate.

The shrewdest man in".the colony (Mr Seddon) is setting U 3 a good example, for he is putting bis house in order, discarding the unprintable cooperative laboured, and • -pinning., his faith to the working settler. The new year will not catch hiiu< napping. Before bad''weather shortens sail and clears his decks of top hamper. —Masterton Times.

The Dunedia Star can hardly be commended for reviving the suggestion that accommodation should be found in-New Zeaiand-for surrendered Boers. We should either have to establish a Boericatnp oh tho Unas of thoße in Ceyldn and India, or absorb the Afrikanders as,ordinary population. Both suggestions are open to very serious objections. Christchurch Times. The you&g New Zealander-, stirred by victory and glory in other lands, may not care for the agricultural prospect before him, and would prefer to take his chance elsewhoie, perhaps in South Africa or the Argentine. < The

example may become contagious* and so a flood ot emigration may set in from the native soil to fertilise other lands by thfc energy and skill that has created the reputation of New Zealand. —Mastorton Stat.

A Dunedm woman borrowed a shawl from her next door neighbour. Shepawned it for" five, shillings, then she visited another pawnshop* wnere sho got a pair of blankets on the weekly payment system* paying a first install menfe of five shillings. Then she Went back to the first sb"op, pawned the pair of blankets for 19s, released the shawl, Brad went to Mosgiel for the day with tha 14s she still had DuaedinLiberal, . ... , r ;

How can a Governor be expeoted to exercise the little discretion entrusted to him with justice . and impartiality when he is dopendiug upon the favour of the Ministry for a few. hundred pounds this year for furnishing his private apartments, for a few pounds next year for trains on a private company's lines, for a few hundred pounds another year to pay Customs duties "on goods which have always been paid by previous Governors themselves, and so on? /The whole thing is an abject farce.—Pahnerston Standard.

According to a weekly trade journal, a Sunday-selling expert sergeant has been using a skeleton key in his efforts to catch a licensee. If it is true he should be dealt with the same as any other burglar.—Sydney Truth. If by any possibility the British officers can turn their trappings, their kitchen ranges, pianos, and billiard tables over to the Boers, and get them to use them as they have done, the war will soon be over. —Waihi Daily Telegraph. New Zeidandarsha've passed through ■' pinches " worse than anything .thb most pessimistic have suggested is now ■i) front, and with a-return to sanity i:: :pgislatioa and economy in adininwtrii ion, can- be. facedwith j'ju^^|l^^^^ffior«StßJ^^.^^^^^ H^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^Ht grapT^^^^^^^^ It is quite a common thing for- men to go to u pub. at half-past ten on Saturday night and stay till twelve without having a drink. What they go there for ia to see who is going to preach next day, and for that purpose the landlord cuts the advertisements out of the papers and keeps the list in hie pocket-book. Drunk, indeed ! The policeman who would say a man was drunk would swear anything.— Manawalu Farmer.