Press Opinions.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 537, 3 October 1902, Page 4

Press Opinions.

Many enthusiasts aro of opinion that the New Zealand Cricket Council would have been better advised bad they arranged for patches with the Australian Eleven instead of negotiating the visit of Lord Hawke’s English amateur team. Those holding thi= view say that everybody would have gone to see the greatest batsman of the year—Victor Trumper. Auckland Herald.

We shall probably not err very far if we accept it as natural that for a number of years the Boer cause will smoulder in South Africa, occasionally showing signs of life by disturbing incidents such as this manifesto. But firm and unffiuching suppression of seditious movements, combined with a patient determination to accept no offence as coming from the Boer people, but to work unceasingly for their advancement and prosperity, will ultimately quench every spark of rebellion and thus justify the efforts of the imperial authorities.—N.Z. Herald.

According to the Ministerial dictionary, the only citizen who loves his country is ono who shuts both his eyes and his mouth and lets the Government do as it ehcCs? s * It is a definition apparently accepted by a very considerable section of the community, who seem imbued with a deadly fear of what might happen if loans were systematised and the finances carefully investigated and impartially administered. Why this fear ? Why this perpetual and insistent tirade of abuse and misrepresentation whenever the peculiar methods of the Seddon Administration aro called in question?— N.Z. Herald.

Year after year our members have returned from Wellington and have publicly confessed that they aro unablo to tell their constituents how our colonial balancesheet really stands. On Tuesday, when an energetic attempt was made to obtain information concerning the loans which have been floated and are being floated by the colony, Sir Joseph Ward cavalierly informed the House of Representatives that “ individual members 11 had not responsibility in the matter, but that this lay with the Executive of the day. In other words, our representatives in Parliament assembled must sit in ignorance of what has been done and is still being done in a direction which vitally affects not merely the name and fame of the colony, but the pockets of the taxpayers. —New Zealand Herald,