THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1906, Page 3

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Wo have boon governed 100 often _ b) dangerous anil fam*ieal men. But this is the lirsL time in our history that wc novo hoen nskcil to (rust the destinies oi tlio Umpire to o Cabinet of Amatcurs,--"Blackwood's Magazine. ■\n Anglo-Enssian understanding cannot be elected unless Britain mate great concessions in regard to Tibet, Persia and Afghanistan.—"Slovo," St. Petersburg. The transformation of Lgypt from a hankrupt country seething with rebellion and discontent to a condition of absolute peaccfulness and financial stability in the snort period of twenty odd years, i« undoubtedly one of the greatest achieveincuts in the" history of British Iwnpiro making.—" Mail," Frankfort. Wo protest most strongly against any reduction in the personnel of our Army, simply for the purpose of saving money. Wo do not believe that public opinion will justify any injury to our fighting services, even in'return for the payment of members of Parliament. •'.Manchester Courier." The accumulating reports from authentic sources, supported by the eager apologetics of the English Radical Press, left no room to doubt that the Liberal Government is seriously contemplating tampering with our Constitution in order to ensure a Boer majority in our first parliament, we thought the danger so incredible that wc took no steps to meet it. It is only'within the last few days that it lias been brought home to us that the Liberal Party in Great Britain, or at any rate, a powerful section of it, the section which for the moment seems to bo dominant, has, since Majuba, learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.—" Star, Jonan- ; nosburg. '