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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 210, 9 October 1914, Page 6

There is nothing of "the melancholy Dane" about Mi- Joseph Hamlet.- Such an exuberant and cheei ; £ul soul couldn't go wandering round communing with his father's or anyone else's ghost even if he tried, and although it would have spoilt the play, his .namesake might have been "born in Ireland" with advantage to himself, if not to literature. Mr Joseph Hamlet wants to represent Sehvyn in Parliament. It is a natural and laudable ambition, but unfortunately there is a stumbling block in the shape of an official Reform candidate, and whether Mr Hamlet's candidature is regarded as "a huge joke" or not, it will certainly have the effect of splitting the Reform vote. Consequently, the best man to detect .any clement of humour about it is Mr Dickie, and if he lias the added advantage of being an Irishman he will, enjoy it mightily. But we think it a pity .that Mr Hamlet thought it necessary to wash so much party linen in public before addressing him elf to political matters. This kind of thing only provokes reprisals, aud does no candidate .nor his party any good.