WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1024, 13 August 1898, Page 4

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

As the law stands it is almost impossible to stamp out the evil of ' tote ' betting which is notoriously on the increase. — Wanganui Herald.

The Prohibitionist party should realise the absolute futility of their aims During the last few years they have lost ground at every point. — Dunedin Star.

It is fathered by Mr Frank Lawry, a gentleman who has initiated several mea suns of more or less importance — generally the latter. — New Plymouth News.

The latest Banking Bill, like its predecessors, seems to be the medium by which certain members of the House can discharge the grossest personalities at each - other.— -Marlborough Express

The amount of tinkering that has gone on since the State came forward and prevented the closing of the B.N.Z 'a doors would have been sufficient to wreck any institution. — Carterton Leader.

Study of the present land laws of New Zealand and comparison of the same with the tenets of Henry George will convince the unprejudiced of the similarity which exists between the two. — Coromandel News.

The first musical item on the recent Sydney Orange festival programme was the ' Gloria,' from Mozart's ' Twelfth Mass,' sung to English words. King Billy, forgive them ! for they knew not what they did.— Sydney Bulletin.

The whole bungling business of traveller and lodger, and illegally on premises, wants knocking out Freedom, a definite licensing law, and then an inaistance, that is required in of place the present nonsence. — Hauraki Tribune.

it is a remarkable fact that when Ministers find themselves in a minority in the House on any proposed measure, they • want it to go to the people,' bat when they have a thumping majority 'the people' are never thought of. Queer — isn't it ? — Southern exchange. %

If the children of the masses don't get their religions pap duly and daily it is simply because parents have lo3t their faith in doctrine and dogma — and also because the clergy are too indifferent to stir themselves. — Sydney Bulletin.

Some time ago we were told by a public official who toured a portion of the North with a Cabinet Minister that he was amazed at the way in which positions and appointments were made in favour of Roman Catholic supporters and friends. — Auckland Christian Worker.

'What is the derivation of the word Jingo ?' is the question agitating the minds of English philologists. Nobody seems to know who Jingo was that he should be sworn by. Perhaps it was intended as a wide name for Jove! — Melbourne Punch.

Children are supposed to be turned out of the State schools when they are thirteen years of age, yet the Factories Act forbids them being taken on to factory work till they are fourteen. In the interval they have to loaf, and have a year in which to learn idleness — Southern paper.

While male printers are walking the streets or being supported by charitable aid, the Government have continued to augment the number of females set to work as printers in the Government Printing Office,and there are now forty-nine girls employed in that department — Napier Telegraph.

We do not believe for one moment that any constituency would be likely to return a woman to the House, and this for the very good reason that we do not believe any woman of standing, of education, of acquaintance with the requirements of a public position, would come forward as a candidate. — Blenheim Express.

It must strike the most superficial thinker as being somewhat strange why the private insurance companies are so dead set against any usurpation of their function by the State, seeing that the exercise of such function — according to them — is accompanied by overwhelming loss. - It must also strike the most superficial observer that they thrive wonderfully well on their losses. — Waikato Times.

Technical education is the secret of the success of German manufacturers. — Melbourne Table Talk.

A grosser piece of misleading has scarcely ever been attempted even by the Premier. — Wellington Post.

Everybody said he deserved it—everybody except a poor woman who was very old and had no other son. — Bulletin.

Every man "who takes from the community without giving an equivalent is a thief and a robber. — Auckland Ohristiau Worker.

It is gratifying to notice that the people of Auckland are moving in the matter of urging railway connection with the South. — Hawera Post.

There are two men to one woman in this colony. Supposing one is married, what is the other fellow to do ? We pause for a ' reply. Take a wife— whose wife ? — Perth Clare's Weekly Good liquor and no prohibition, longer hours and no useless clauses, and reform in control of houses, so that a man need not necessarily buy from the owner of the house — therS is the Licensing Law as it ought to be — Paeroa Tribune.

Ferocious punishments for slight offences, decided by the Spooner imprisonment case, is an old and evil inheritance from the mother country, from which it is time New Zealand had shaken herself free. — Hawera Post.

■ Great Bismark undoubtedly was, and his constructive work will live after him, but it is doubtful whether the Prussian spirit he breathed into the German Empire will not yet, in the less skilful hands of other men, prove a danger to Europe. — Wellington Post.

The republics of the ancient world are supposed to have fallen to decay because they contained no principle of the direct representation of the people. The Parliamentary Governments of the present day are threatened by too much representation of the people —Melbourne Table Talk.

Children born of healthy parents, that previous to vaccination were bright and chubby, have immediately after the operation sickened, and, if they have not actually succumbed, have never thoroughly recovered from the shock.— Wanganui Yeoman.

Where is it all to end? Why should not a shop keeper be compelled to provide for his assistants not only a dining-room but also a dinner and afternoon tea, and other triflti3? Why should a man be allowed, after his eight hours' work is finished in the factory, to go home and dig his garden ? — New Plymouth Budget.

Those who most strongly support the elective executive principle have failed to win their way to Ministerial rank, and are very bitter against the present system of Cabinet formation, as they recognise the impossibility of ever gaining the goal of their ambition as long aa it obtains. — Wanganni Herald.

There is no longer room for doubt that the future is with those who advocate the Referendum, and the time is not far distant when there will be a demand for longer Parliaments, fewer representatives, and the settlement of political controversy by reference to the direct vote of the people — Reefton Times.

Unfortunately it is only too trae that the tone of public life has become lowered since the average legislator adopted the belief that his duty was to be the agent of local interests rather than the representative of so many hundreds or thousands of people on questions affecting the community as a whole. — Melbourne Table Talk.

Why do doorkeepers allow women with children in arms to attend concerts and theatrical performances ? You always find the infants jambed in the midst of the audience or in the front seats. If we must put up with the equalling kids, why not have a small gallery built near the entrance for their special benefit ? Then when the pain in the tummy came on they could be speedily removed. — Adelaide Quiz.

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It is an ideal spirit for men and women, and as an after-dinner cordial, Wolfe's Schnapps is unsurpassed.

At<ii the Ladies op Auckland get their Music Boobs tastefully, neatly, and cheaply bound at Mb J. W. Hookeb's (successor to Mr W. Leys), the well-known Bookbinder of Wyndham-street (two doors below the Gaa office).— A dvt.