Newspaper Notions

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 74, 30 November 1901, Page 7

Newspaper Notions

MR SYMKS Ims come out ot the hei> furnace" ot the debate > n the Pa\ ment ot Members Bill iei -well and loolv> no worse noi moie miserable toi the knowledge of his nicreased screw. -Inglewood Recoid." ■* * * We learn tioin a private somce tint the labour legislation in. force in Nou Zealand has been cast up against Messi«Oadnuui and Smith, and has had a good deal to do with English people havi> c, 'shown no anxiety to form a company — Haw era Star." ♦ • * The drastic discipline" so tondh idolised b\ Sir Hector, has been carried out in South Africa at the cost of hundreds upon hundreds of lnes that might ha^ c been saved if the discipline had been a bttle less diastic and more humane — Waihi Telegraph " • ♦ • You can get accustomed to anything, even to earthquakes. Our weather bureau in Wellington might in time be able as a iesult of continued observations to tdl New Zealanders when to stand fiom undei cathedra] spues and sleep undei canvas bv gorse fences.— Duuedm 'Tablet ' Lord Ranfml\ lumself has studiously striven to become personally acquainte 1 with all parts of the oolonj and the spirit ot loyalu our people have dis played during the past two vearowes much of its force to his imobtiii* ive but fostering influence — Thames "Star " The Faimers Union it judiciously guided b\ cool and temperate men, will proie a'powei foa- good— on the contrary if other methods prevail it will crumble and fall to pieces It must not be run on part> lines paa-t\ politics must be altogether pschewpd —Hamilton Rumours ot a re-consti uction of the Ministry ai<>> again flvmg through t ho political atmo&pheie The Hon Thomas Duncan is said to be about resign, hi& successor as Mimstei o^ Lands beuig vanously named as Mr McNab Mr Hogg, and Mr J Steven' — Palmeiston Times." * * Wt h«ue beeu in the past wont to talk ot The Old Country , ' The Mother Country, ' and The Dear Old Mothciland." * In view- of the regularity with which we now boriow our million 01 two even- jear Great Britain is now becoming known to oui politicians as The Dear Old Uncle Land." — Opunake Time*. ' ♦ ♦ • As far as Masterton is concerned, the neu Factories Act will prove a farce, which must necessarily be played out m a perfunctory manner The country is as jet unripe for too many red-tape regulations The Parliament can mak« them, but the carrying of them out virtualh an impossibility — Masterton "Times ' « * * That gieat mastei piece of so-called LiberaJ legislation, the Bill which dofines defamatory libel, and provides an egregious heavj penalty foi '-up* 1 offence, has scrambled through the House and become law, to the great delight of those to whom the truth is an unsavory quantity. We might mentiothat we aie piepared to draw lots with any other Anarchist to see who shoots the redoubtable Dick.— Charleston 'Ht>ald ' ♦ • * Admitting that we lequire a bettpi class of membeis, and granting that this £300 honoranum. will give us th^ opportunitA of getting a better class then there is not much to say agains + the increase But will the people nsc to the occasion? Will they select men whom they consider worth the highei salary 9 We confess we have our doubt « and strong doubts at that .--Auckland 'Observer " ♦ • • Rumour h«s it that the perioimance of a certain opeia didn't come off in an Australian cit\ owing to the tenoi and the fascinating baritone chasing each other round with guns And it is claimed to be all over the fetching little comedienne of the company, who is the cause of more fights in the crowd than forty long beers. Just now folks arp awaiting developments in that big cit-\ and the divorce and perhaps other com ts loom largo in the near future — S\dne\ "Truth "

We would lathei see wool at sixpence a pound than the cajca^e at am puce Hunter* 1110 K\pras>s Piobabh no st smou of Paahament toi the last twenty ■se-ars ha& effected so little useful Icgisation Xa.pier Heiald " Aie the haiassing and paupoiismg ( onditions attached to the pa\ment of the old-age pensions responsible foi the ahnoimal number of suicides among the ie< ipientfc '■* —S\ dne\ Sunda\ Times." Imi t it about time the Bung push in out own House went in foi oO pei cent \w on their snows Legislating at night artei twelve houis beer-pushing and pulling must be haic? graft -S\dne\ New slettet Of couise it is lecogiused that Sn J G "VVaid is the only possible successor of Mr Seddon and the prevailing opinion is that when Sn Joseph's time coim* he will completeh reconstiuct the Cabinet Westport "News The British Aim\ has more than one llluvtnous General — we ha\ c just paid oui inspects to Scotland's 'Fighting Mac " so let us have "Tieland's Fighting Pat." or an\ of the others "Let 'em all come '"- -Hokitika Times " Mr F Piram, MH R is one of the (|iiooievt coon 1 - we ever heard mention of In or out of Parliament it is all the 1 same to him he keeps his name befoie the public in a manner that licks cremation out of any variety artist — Kumara Timers " Taking -ill the circs into consideration The Spfc pins its faith to Mueller the West Coast surve\or^ho is now Com. of Lands at Auckland and it i^ open to bet a sub. that befoie Christmas Gerard Mueller will be Sur- \ e*vor-General of M L — Christ church 'Spectator " Tile present law it, ldeahstic m its fanness when compaied with Mr. Seddon s libel law . which makes a hei o of the ruffian and stoDs little shoit of canonuing him while at the same time it degrades the independent journalist, howevei truthful and conscientious he ma\ be to the level of the common criminal -- \upklnnd ' Observer " Pi.nch's repoit that Piemiei Seddou is to be appointed to a South Ahican Governorship is repeated with emphasis heie and dbioad. Theie aie moie improbable things, and Dick would make a good Governor, but he is probably moie useful in Maoriiand than he would be am where else. — Melbourne Punch." The \ oung New Zealander — blessed with all that a fertile land can give him — is too prone to worship success and is apt to foi get that success is a failure if it is based on what is weak or contemptible, and knavei\ and trickery aie weak and are contemptible, even if endorsed b\ the decision of magistrates 01 the opinion of counsel and is called legal — Ellesmere "Guaidian We claim, and we intend to maintain, the right to rule our own home in our own way, according to our own will, but, none the less, we aie proud of the old land and the old ties, and we glory in the fact that we are of British stock and of British blood, and that we form part of the British Empire — S\ dne\ Newsletter " Tom Mann, the London Labour leader who took to beer-selhngm Coekneyville and was fined for unduly watering his boose says a good man's good intentions are not appreciated in the Big Smoke and ho is going to shift out and make himself at home in Maonland Tom will find the liking for watered beer quite as hmite<l in New Zealand as in London -Melbourne Punch The song of England at the conclusion ot the Boer wai will probably be — We don't want to hght But b^v Jingo if w e do We'll take good caie to know the stiength Of those weie 'getting to'" — S\ dne\ Truth haithquako risks howe\ei seem to oiler no temptation to e\ en the most entei prising imderw nteis. It has been suggested that the Government migh r nuclei take this branch of insurance seeing that it would not be interfering with am form of private enterprise — Chnst(hurch "Press." The tarmeis ha\e found out that the\ were intended to be the cats to pull the Ten chestnuts out of the fire at the next general election and with the sound, common senso peculiar to their class they decline to be made use of m fashion Hence the dead-as-a-door-nail condition of the so-called Farmeis Fnion - Carterton "Leader "