THAT the sons of Austiaha Canada Maonland and Af 1 ica — those beast 1\ kaw limes' of «i shoit vcar or so ago — sliould bo selected to finish the Boei job ma\ be too much to expect from the Wai Office It would suielv be a, confession of incapacity — Clutha Fiee Pi ess " * * * How man> men will lotuin to New Zealand from South Africa a,s good men a-s they left? Veiv few How many wall be piepaied to go bark to the peaceful occupations of cultn ating the soil and cleanng the bush- Yew fow —Thames "Star " Mr. Pirani has been the sworn foe of anything shady his aim has been to have everything political fan and above board. Men of his stamp aie few m number and Ins retirement from the House is a decided national lov- — Eg mont Post " * ■/■ ♦ With all his faults and despite grievous deficiencies in taste and man ner. Mr. Seddon has made good his title to kinship with the bleed of political giants and the lace of pigmies onh make themselves ridiculous when they lav claim to equal honouis — Dunedin ' Star." * * * It appeals to us that persons start ing business m New Zealand under the Act (Workmen's Compensation) are very much like the erivl in the recent test case, only instead of putting theii fingeis under the guillotine' they put their whole busmen heads there.- — Haw era Star " -A 1 - This complaining about the Army meat contracts lavs the colonies open to a sneer of the Napoleonic kind which called us a nation of shopkeepers Our help to the Motheiland should be given without the semblance of expectation of reward bv way of preference in tiade. — Hunterville "Expiess " If the Piemier weie not the soul of tiuth, we should be astonished at some things w Inch he says and promises The man with an empt\ treasury who can flaunt a quarter of a million surplus in the face of detractors can do anything even though his coat, as Mi Hogg sug gested, is worn threadbare. 