NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9065, 10 April 1906, Page 5

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.

(Received April 10,' 8.4 i a.m.) . LONDON, Apiil £ The Spectator eulogiics the atttfede of the great self-governing colontfea upori the clear and temperate' 'tone of the colonial press, upholding"" tfhe true doctrine of ; Imperial relations; 1 Autocfebmy ; if once given, oaainot be whittled away. .Jliie^ paper adds 1 : Lord- Elgin was not justified in interfering -with ' the courtmaxtial; • XtDe. Times' ' Johain^ittg correspondeiDh says the hands 1 of the clock of conciliation have been put back' 'many years' by the events of the last few months. The Boer leaders have been encouraged in the belief that they will obtain political supremacy and aie unlikely to. calmly, watch the hopee deliberately raised "by the Liberal Government dasfied at the eleventh hour. If the Government) resolved to uphold British infcene&te it must expect a recrudescence of racial amtagonism in the bitterest form.