WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Evening Star, Issue 14508, 28 October 1910, Page 1

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Tho Chief Justice expresses the opinion that "the Hine charges are not such as should be investigated by Judges." It could he. wished that "he had gone further, and stated the strong objection which exists agam-t the practice of taking the Judges from their proper duties and gelling them to investigate all sorts of scandals. It is most improper that a Judge should be asked to go into matters, in the capacity of a royal commission, which he might be called upon subsequently to deal wiih as a Judge. Christchureh 'Prc»-.

Some drastic reforms a.ro necessary in our parliamentary methods, and if the Government, would only adopt practical recommendations tho most desirable special committee which could be seL up would be one to inquire how deliberate waste of time and deliberate legislation by exhaustion. c;in be avoided.—Auckland ' Herald.'

I The House has been so badly handled dur- | ing tho present, session that there.is prospect ; of serious trouble for the Government if they attempt to compel members to stay hero and work under the forcing conditions which would be necessary. Probably tho House ■will sit for -.mother month, at the end of which time there will have been a heavy mortality amonsst tho Bills now on the I Order Paper.—The ' Dominion. W confess thai we haw not quite so much I faith in municipal control as llr J'.l! has, hut if the Health Depatrment is not j>reparcd to undertake the whole work of inspection from the paddock in which the cows arc grazed to the consumer's back door at which the milk is delivered, the next best tiling will bo to place the responsibility , for this necessary precaution upon the local ! authority.—' Lyttelton Times.' ' If he can induce the House to sit, for nveni-y-two hours on every day of the week but Sunday, Sir Joseph Ward should be ablo to get through in three weeks, and to enhance considerably his steadily-growing reputation as a past master in the art of legislation by exhaustion. —Wellington ' Post.' At present members appear to think that if they stay in Wellington four months that is all that can be expected of them, and if at the end of that time the work of Parliament is still unfinished it must be left till the following session; their convenience, apparently, is of more importance than the interests of the country.—Timaru 'Post. 1 The lesson to be learnt from New Zealand's policy of cutting up the large estites has not been overlooked or ignored by Australians. Land settlement on smaller areas is a policy which has "come to stay" in Australia as in New Zealand, and the. sooner the lamenting capitalist recognises the fact tho better.—Marlborough 'Express.' * * * We are disposed to believe lhat the latter part of our inevitable railroading work may eventually be thrown into the region of local government. It is true that no feasible plan ha.s yet been devised in this direction, but that is no reason why one should not bo evolved.—Wcllingtou 'Times.'