Newspaper Notions

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 80, 11 January 1902, Page 7

Newspaper Notions

IT is about time that the method of appointing Governors was abrogated in fa\oui of an elected Governor. Palmerston 'Standard " * • * Judging from the bankruptcy vtati^tacs, the financial position of the trading clashes was, never better The Official Assignees throughout the colony are practically out ot employment Mercantile Gazette." * • » The Sun" calls the Journal' an Anarchist and a ruffian, and the Journal" calls "The Sun" a blackguard and a mercenary hireling. It isn't polite in either of them, but it is better than telling lies about each other.— Boston Pilot " * • • And what will be the position of labour in this colony next winter when the bulk of the contingents will, in all probability have returned should private employment fall off, and the pr^ sent stringency as legards loan mone\ continue 5 - Ohristehureh "Press" » * * The fact of the mattei is that Pi • mier Seddon is m a tight coinei hi<surpluses are bogus the exchequer is badly lined, and the borrowed million more than moitgaged l Yet he prates and preaches that "we had better co slow "—lnglewood" — Inglewood 'Record * • « The Government has not fulfilled aJI its promises with regard to the encouragement of rifle shooting. We have heard nothing of late of the nfle clubs which were to be established to enable civilians living some distance from, volunteei centres to obtain shooting practice cheaph — Christ church Times * * * Things political die disgiacefully low at the present time, but it will be worse for New Zealand if the time arrive* when a party in power can succossfulh contiol all elections. Triumphant Tarn manyism will then be fhmly established and it will be found much more difficult to destroy it here than it was in New York. — Rangitikei Advocate." * » * The shrewdest man in the colony (Mr. Seddon) is setting us a good example, for he is putting his house in order, discarding the unprofitable cooperative labourer, and pinning his faith to the working settler. The new year will not catch him napping 1 Be fore bad weather comes he shortens sail and clears his decks of top hamper Mas+erton Times " The Dunedm 'Star" can hardlj be commended for reviving the suggestion that accommodation should be found vi New Zealand for suriendered Boers We should either have to establish a Bo^r camp on the lines of those in Ceylon and India, or absoib the Afnkandeis as ordinary population. Both sugges nous a,re open to very grave objection^ — Christchurch "Times" The young New Zoalander, stirred b\ viet 01 y and glory in other lands, may not care for the agricultural prospect before him, and would prefer to take his chance elsewhere, perhaps in Sout ll Africa or the Argentine. The examplt may become contagious, and so a flood of emigration may «.et in from the na tive '•oil to fertilise other lands by the onererv and skill that has created the reputation of New Zealand — Masterton "Star." * * * A Dunedm woman borrowed a shawl from her next door neighbour -he pawned it for five shillings, then '■he visited another pawnshop where she got a pair of blankets, on the weekly pay ment system, paying a first instalment of five shillings Then she went bad to the first shop pawned the pair blankets for 19« released the shawl, in; 1 went to Mosffiel fo*- a day with the IJ s she still had left — Dunedm "Liberal ' * * * How can a Governor be expected to exeicise the little discretion entrusted to him with justice and impartiality when lie is depending upon the favour ot tb < Ministry 101 a few hundred pounds f hi^ year for furnishing his private apait ments, for a few pounds next jear fo' tiains'on private company's lines, for «» few hundied pounds another year to oav t.he Customs duties on goods which ha\e always been paid by previous Governor*, themselves, and so on The whole thing is an abject faice — Palmerston "Standard."

According to a weekly trade journal, a Sunday-selling expert MMgeant has been using a skeleton key m his efforts to catch a licensee If it is true, he should be dealt witli the same^ as> any other burglar. — Sydney "Truth.'" » • * It, by any possibility, the British officers can turn then trappings, their katohen ranges, pianos, and billiard tables over to the Boers, and get them to use them a,s the} have done, the war will soon be o\ er — AVaihi Daily Telegraph " New Zeaiandei-s hare passed tlu<>uu;li pinches" worse than any thing the most pessimistic have suggested is now in front, and with a return to sanity in legislation and economy in admmi^tiation the future can be faced with confidence. — Hav\era ' Star '' » ■# * New Zealand can, we think, be trusted to work out her glorious future unaided, and m spite of detraction and misunderstanding seems to us to have a destiny which will be best realised in isolation rather than comparative absorption — Petone "Chronicle * ♦ • No bigger blunder was ever made than the co-operative levelling down that compelled an employer to pay equal wages to an efficient and an inefficient workman and such law cannot remain very long on the statute books of this or any other country. — Tapanui 'Courier '' * # » The theft of Prmce Alexander of Teck's gold watch and purse on board the Ophir is much to be regretted, but there was no necessity for the correspondents to emphasise the fact that the robbery was discovered iust after the Ministers had left the Ophir — Montteal 'Stai " (Canada) * * * Oh' Oh'— The tender of Mr. F. McParland has. been accepted foi catering for the Eighth Contingent while m camp at Trentham Mr McParland was the 'cateier" at the Newtown camp during the royal visit He is a strong Government suppoiter, as all sue oessful men should be — Palmerston 'Standard * * * So great is the business done that the postal authorities prov lde large books of printed receipts with the word ■"TattersaJl" across the face A stranger looking at one of these receipts might readily imagine that the G P O and "TattersallV were a nartneiship concern — Sydney ' Telegraph " * * * It is quite a common thing foi men to go to a, pub at haJf-past ten on Saturday night and stay till twelve without having- a drink. What they go there for is to who is going to preach next day and for that puipose the landlord cuts the advertisements out of the papers and keeps the list in his pocketbook. Drunk indeed 1 The policeman who w-ould say a man was drunk would swear anvthing — Manawatu "Farmer."