Newspaper Notions

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 79, 4 January 1902, Page 7

Newspaper Notions

IF Mr. Earnshaw's design uas to upeet the Caversham election an^l lose it for the Labour cause, h" must congratulate himself upon lm success — Dunedin "Liberal." • * « Premiei Seddon. of Ne^\ Zealand once kept a public house There he served his apprenticeship at drawing measure*. — Melbourne Punch "' • • ♦ For an unassuming colony we win to be getting on very nicely in the way of taxation, and to be keeping up the lead as the. best taxed country m the world ■ — Waihi ''Telegraph." • » * It is admittedly hard to get butter out of a dog's throat, but the difficulty is not a circumstance compared -with getting a true exposition of Government expenditure. — Inglewood "Record " » * * The actual expenses of a member while in Wellington cannot be more than £2 a week — unless he has failings and vices that the electors should not be called upon to provide for — Oamam "Times " # # . While the Farmers' Union means the extinction of the adventurer and the party politician whose only aim is to feather his own nest it means the evolution and development of the statesman — Marton ''Advocate " . • • As to tihe increa&e in departmental expenditure, rt is patent to every man m the country that innumerable billets have been "created for the only apparent object of rewarding political supporters and election touts —Hamilton "Argus." # Our Premier m a judicious way has contrned to keep himself very largely in the eye of Royalty for several years pasts and there are very few things the King would deny him except, perhaps the Crown jewels, or the head of Mr^ F Pirani on a charger —Gore 'Ensign • ■« * Premier Seddon's message of straight talk to Campbell-Bannerman is worthy of imitation, but it would be better, perhaps, to hold public meetings throughout Australia to pass resolutions of similar effect —Sydney 'Sunday Times." • * * We think civil servants should not be made Commissioners-y-either they must have a preconceived idea that the Ministers or members can do no wrong, and bring in a, report which suits them, or else they suffer the displeasure of in power. — Rangitikei "Advocate • • • It is most regrettable that Mr Earnshaw a man of great natural ability and wide political and industrial experience, should have been so led away by his sectarian prejudices as to raise a cry which has never hitherto been raised at a New Zealand election — Blenheim "Express." » * • The following address, which was on a newspaper from England reaching the City Council office a few days ago. is somewhat unique It was to the fo l lowing effect — 'To His Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Christchurch, the Municipal Council Chambers, Durham-street Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, cure of the Lord Mayor's clerk.'' — Christchurch -''Press " • * * The raising of th£ /ehgious bogey in the Oaversham. electuli, by Mr. Earnshaw, raised a chorus \>f disapproval as might have been expected, seeing that his charges axe obviously untrue, and candidates for Parliamentary honours would do well to remember that colonists are fax too enlightened now-a-d.?vs to allow sectarian strife or nartov\minded bigotry to influence them — Hokitika "Times " • • • To-day we are preparing to send another Contingent, not because oui beloved Motherland is in any danger not because there is the slightest fear for her prestige not because a pledge -> f our loyalty and our patriotism is necessary, but because our men are wanted to do the hard, the thankless, the bitter work of the finishing up of the campaign, while 'pampered puppydom' feasts upon dainties specially prepared by professional chefs, reclines upon sprinf mattresses, and covers its aristocratic limbs with eider down! — Carterton "Leader."

C onquenng kings their titles take From the foes they captive make . Colonial knights their title.s take From the fools they subjugate 1 — Adelaide Quiz. • • • It Imperial officers had been as a class dependent on their pa* there would have been no reports of mobile columns being encumbered with pianos and kitchen ranges, 01 of nightlj jollifications with English beer at 3s 6d per bottle. — S\ clnev "Sunday Times " • • • There is evident h going to be a scramble for one of the vacant M L Cshi.ps. A correspondent of the Otaki paper urges the claims of Mr George Mcßeath. a local hotel keepei Mr Simcox, district coroner, and Mr John Davr.es countA chairman — Masterton Times." • • » Campbell-Bannerman and his pioBoer backers here and elsewhere appear to think that the British should not only mind, feed clothe and medically attend tihe wives and children of the pncm\ hut leave their farmhouse H'sorts untouched also — S-\dne-s 'Sunday Times • * • It is a,bout time m the interests of contractors as a whole that the local bodies put their feet down strongly upon the system of returning deposits in the eases of contractors who do not choose to take up the works for which they have successfully tendered — Auckland 'Observer." • * • The prompt offer of the Eighth Contingent was the act of a patriot and a statesman the rebuke to the pro-Boer politicians at Home was an inspiration of genius , the Wellington speech, with all its offensive vulgarity, was hardly up to the level of a third-rate professional politician — Christchurch "Press." The Government remunerates itself and its satellites for creating strife, doubt, discord, and mutual distrust between master and man. The people demanded labour legislation, and we trust they have now supped their fill of it. Perhaps, some day. in the near future they will demand something a little more rational — and get it — Gore Ensign Pienuer Jenkins, who came fioni America a& a, book agent twenty-five years ago, last week voted against any man getting work on the conversion of tramwaj lines until he has lived in Adelaide for a year. What would have become of Premier Jenkins in his early days in Adelaide if a similar mle had been in force as to book agents o—Adelaide Cntic » » ♦ We of the Commonwealth are as anxious to ha.ye the war ended as the peoHe of England aie< we are as much concerned as they and as desirous that the Mother Count rj should not be called upon to submit, for a much greater length of time to the exactions of this sapping struggle If a big blow is to be struck, Australians will be eager to heln in making it effective. — Melbourne Punch " • • • As foi the ridiculous lesoluuon parsed h} the Wellington Trades Council by a narrow majority we did not think there were twelve men m anj one town in New Zealand who, after the war has been going on for more than two years, would have so publicly paraded their utter ignorance of the causes that led up to it. — Christchurch 'Press " • * • One oi the enemies of the C athohc body in our House of Representatives informed us. many months ago. in a moment of indiscreet and outspoken candour, that the next election would be fought out on an anti-Catholic cry The recent Ca,versham ejection bore out his statement in quite a striking wa.y. It was the preliminary skirmish — -thei fir,t affair of outposts — -in the greater campaign that is coming. — Dunedin 'Tablet " •» * • What more natural then than to do one. for Great Britain and two for ourselves," by allowing the former to take charge of a thousand of our able-bodied young men for a year, to feed and clothe and make use of, thus creating a thousand openings here for those unavoidably discharged from public works and for others returning from the war etc — Tauranga ''Times " • • • There is a general consensus of opinion that after the Premier has attended the Coronation, he will cease to take an active part in M.L politics. Sir J. G. Ward is the only possible successor to the burly Premier, and when Sir T( '•eph's time does arrive, he will thoroughly reconstruct, the Cabinet Of course, this is all in the air, but less unhkelv things have been foretold. — Dunedin "Star."

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