WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 1

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The Territorial officer who is reported to have said that training need cause on.y a slight interference with games is probably optimistic, but where there is clashing games must go, The .training is too vital a thing to bo sacrificed to a besetting love of sport.—Christchurch ' Press.' * # * The adulferatiou of food and drink and the (riving of fa.>e weights attract little atteution from the authorities, yet they are notoriously rife in rertain quarters, to the great injury of honest traders and of the public o.t large.— Auckland "Herald.' . * # # The Government claim, and it "is generally admitted, that the settlement of the land under the leasehold tenure lias led to remarkable prosperity, and has. moreover, been » profitable v«rcstiuv.i:t. 'liven '.ri'.y j*;. .*->,,. i"; hesitation about proceeding with settlement on similar lines, and at greatly aceelerafced speed? —Southland 'News.', - •_' * « * Sir Joseph Ward's baronetcy may connote metit to some section- or other of Eng.ish society; but in New Zealand, to put it mildly, it has created no enthusiasm. It will probably be -taheh. therefore, to the place wbarc it may be'.worth somethingThe ' Dominion.' * * * No sensible rrason hns been assigned for the release of Terry, and to set him frea would be a distinct menace to the' publis safi-ty, .s'n.d■ w-r.ild go to .prove'that, the mCutii and moral qualities of the peop'e of ."N/w Zrabnd were on the decline—Waihr •Telegraph.' * a » Th-o foreign birds that have invaded our land, and who periodically make such extensive inroads on the farmers' crqps, will never replace the native songsters of New Zealand, and the least \vc can do for this fast dUap praring race i.-. to preserve iuviolats for them their inland refuges.—Gisborae ' Herald.'

Constant effort i.i being made to take all temptation out of the way of the young, and we fear that a race may be evolved which wi.l tc as flabby in its moral nature rs in its piiysica.l, which* will b.?, sober only because it cannot drink, will not gamble for the lack of facilities, will nut. steal because the policeman is watching.—New-Plymouth ' Herald.' * * # Hereditary titles may be a mistake, but tlie\ aie ii'.t so great, a mistaKC as to justify niiimbew oi I'aihamciit behaving like ill-mannered .--chooiboys ami maiung tllciiisclvcs rt.-iiculous. is sili_, euongn to really tnink tnat tile I'ai'liarnent of our ioyal mul satisfied iJomiinoii nas the same ngnt tiiie to flaunt and insult tin: Crown as nau tile war-emoittcred camgiCb.s of tnc tiecrued American ••colonies,' already the LinUM Status. To g.u; at aJir .lo.s'-pii Ward unut-r cover oi niaKing a stupid claim as to tne relation lir.i..r.u. ijii..ii in Sow Z*-at;uid liuju -j uieir King .in:: Ins cuurlc-aits is unworUiv oi ieii-i-cKpectiiig inc-ii, ana should be [uoperiy put an end to t>y t.ie rniiLuai agn <•- iiienY of all pi'.itj'.'S i.'i tne iiu'.ise.—jiiit'Kland ' 1.1 era Id. " * * # We must conftss to some astonishment that tne acceptance of a hereuiia.rj, tiiie oy ttie i'rinit! J'liusU-r oi Jvew Zcaianu nas not evoked a' larger amount oi vigoiuiiß criticism irom the suic of ms: House and the c«..uniry. A recent, ocpartmeutal return sliuwea mat tnere aio iA>* landtiolders in J\ew eZalaud aoove tne lU,OuO acre limit, who own oetvve.cn Uium over 4,/O'J.OJU acres ot land oi an uinniproved value oi nearly iJc;DJ,UX). Here, surely, is the basis for a hereditary aristocracy . ready n.uu'c. We cannot ayive that, it is possible to prevent a pnvati' person in ttiia country from accepting a. duchy or an earldom if the Crown wislies to bestow it. We hold that it is tiie positive duty of democratic Liberals here to follow the example of their foreman■'.rs in France and America, and absolutely furhid the acceptance of -hereditary titles by the oliicial representatives of the country and its {Jovernment.—Auckland ' Star.'