THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 100, 3 June 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

PERIODS OP ARTISTIC, VIGOUR. , The periods of artistic vigour "were very, conscious of two ; , considerations / which we forget j. that the, art to which all the other plastic arts should .be subordinate is architecture, j and that no form of art will have vitality unless it is one of the roads .along which a genuine emotion and a genuine hunger for the beautiful find characteristic expression. Our painting and our sculpture have been divorced from architecture, but as "painting is relatively the, expression of a genuine sentiment on our part we have more or less successfully adapted it to an independent existence. But sculpture has not that saving grace -of intimacy. Our public statues represent nothing more than the desire; to iavo statues; and they cannot help telling that truth. —'' News and' Leader." OIL IN BRITISH TERRITORY.

If, then, there is any desire iii Downing Street to secure the advantages of an oil supply in British territory, a new, efficient, and costly policy must be taken in hand. It will be interesting to see whether oil wells can push the Government into action which they refused to take so long af nothing more practical and lucrative than British honour and prestige was in question.— "Express." AN INSTRUMENT OF PROGRESS. The kinema came among us as an amusing toy. It may remain as one of the greatest instruments of progress. "We have reached the stage of accepting it as a necessary part of .'life* As a show it pervades the country and the life of the people, having, no doubt, some ill-effects in jexchange for many good ones. Persons who contract the kinema habit may thus waste valuable hours, just as they do in the gratification of other tastes, and the imitative faculty may be turned to evil or to good. But the higher applications of the kinema are yet to come, and they may astonish many.—'"Evening News". CLondon). Mlt HOXiMAN AND THE CAUCUS.

He (Mr Holman) has no right to disobey the Labour League unless he asks to be released from his pledge and goes back to the constituents who elected him under it for their endorsement of his new attitude. A stage has been reached at which Mr Holman's duties as a premier under representative gov eminent and his duties as a member of the Labour Caucus have come into direct conflict, and he must either knuckle down to his pledge and to Mr "Meagher, ox do as he suggests that Mr Maagher should do, seek the political fresh, air outside the Trades Hall.—'Daily'Telegraph:" • ' MEXICO AND IMMIGRANTS. ; ! : It is evidently a matter .of the utmost importance to Mexico that, the immigrants to be attracted within her borders shall be industrious, thrifty, and law-abiding citizens, and it is . no less, evident that such persons will not risk their persons or their property'where they cannot feel assured tliat at least some reasonable effort will be: made by the authorities to protection of the, Jaw.—''Jiveaiiigrost" (New York),