PRESS COMMENTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12941, 4 December 1909, Page 5

PRESS COMMENTS.

LONDON. December 3

Includin gthe Rand Mail, the South African newspapers generally express the hope that the House of Lords will be reformed on the basis of strengthening the representative elements.

The Transvaal Leader, Pretoria News, Cape Times, and Natal Mercury, warmly suDport the Lords' action.

The newspaper Despatch, published at East London, deprecates Lord Crewe's reference to the colonies, which it describes as a misuse of the overseas partners in the Empire. The Canadian, newspaper comments on the situation are of a varied character.