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Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 2 March 1912, Page 22

They do some screamingly neat things at the Ambigu, Paris, at times. In a recent revue at the theatre two uproarious Congo niggers sang songs in French, German and in a desperate desire to know their nationality. This is an allusion to some recent international deals in land, and is all the more pungent for being probably prophetic.

The position is now quite clear. Sir Joseph Ward voluntarily retires into private membership to enable the Liberal and Labour sections to make common cause against tne forces of monopoly and reaction. He relinquishes the marshal s baton, but he does not abandon the soldier's knapsack, and will be found, alert and active, m the .ranks of progress whenever /gating » ™ r , ward Our Tory friends have got rid of "Wardism," but the dislodgment of Ward will be a very much more difficult process The way has now been opened for a fair fight without favour. -New ZeaUi'l "Times."

If only the fire-eating German editors could be persuaded to become a little less belligerent in the tone ot „eir articles, and the German Navy league ceased to expect the German Fleet to be equal to that ot Britain,there would be a good deal leS acrimony of feeling between the people of the two countries.— Grey River "Argus." m •

The politician is a magician who can easily blow hot and cold simultaneously, and he can eat hie: cake and have it. So when a Mr J. Ryan, Jfan Occidental Hotel (Auckland) telegraphed to Mr Payne : bnall l bet in that you are opposing sTjSeph Ward ?" Grey.Lynn's member calmly replied : Jlave a St on both ways." .There has►been much of Mr Payne since an Opposi tion wave washed him high, but not d?y, on the legislative shore,, and there is to be much more of him for f time He is only at the befflaning of his hour on the stage. J±e is dressed for his part and a large audience is waiting for his worde.Wellington "Post.' _ "Shucks, what does the census ? the trouble, Uncle Pcthat durned enumerator wanted was a lot of Aggers. Would not pay no attention to the details of my rheumatism or my fust marriage."