WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7020, 7 January 1910, Page 8

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

We have, been hitherto under the im-' pression that the people of the East are, too poor to pay a price for the meat, which will pay the grower, although they would eat as much as we could' send at the low price they could afford to pay. There are, of course, rich men in China and Japan who could afford to pay well, and therefore a trial shipment or two might be a step in the right direction. At all events it would be worthy of the spirit of enterprise which should distinguish a practical people. We think, however, that the Canadian and American markets have the , most to offer us for the future. Moreover, it would be well to do anything to promote trade with our Canadian fellow-subjects.—" Southland Daily News."

The announcement that the Hon. Minister for Mines will tur.n the first sod for the Trans-Teremakau water supply during his present visit, and that tenders have been called for the Big Wanganui river bridge, givesj a roseate hue to the dawn of the new year. The news is very gratifying,- indeed. It makes a very good beginning, and sets a tuneful note for tuo year. The two works involve an expenditure of about J>25,000, but it is not tho monetary value of the outlay that is important. It is the consequent advantages which will result from this expenditure which forms the most pleasing colouring to the promising dawn. —"Hokitika Guardian."

With, the English voter, the verdict rests, and it is for him to say whether a policy of threats—a policy,, we have no doubt, that can be made effective—is sufficient to frighten him from recording his protest against the most glaring and audacious attack upon- his individual rights and liberties of which history tells. To assert, as has been asserted by supercilious and ill-balanced critics, that all the Lords have done is to ask the people to decide the matter, and if a majority of the people vote against the Government then .the matter 13 settled, is to betray a lamentable lack of appreciation of the factors that have led up to the crisis. The Btruggle that the Lords have wantonly provoked cannot be ended by one defeat of their opponents; and in this fact rests the hope of tho ultimate triumph of Democratic principles—Dunedin "Star."