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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 206, 6 September 1901, Page 4

The effect of Lord Rosebery's speech, and of further consideration of his letter, has been to convince many Scottish Radicals that his lordship may yet return to liie leadership of the party. To the bulk of Scottish Radicals this is the most assuring feature of the situation. Scottish Radicals are tired of counsellors. They want a man who will act. Their faith in Lord Rosebery's ability, if lie only has the willingness, is almost sublime. It recalls, to some extent, the old Scottish faith in Mr Gladstone.—Pall Mall Gazette.

xne very autocratic proviso called the matrimonial clause” enacts that a bank lerk shall be eclcbatc until he is allowed ly his bank to earn the idOO yearly :onsidercd necessary to qualify him for natrimony. As the directors of a bank lo not marry the lady, this very military dauso seems absolutely barbaric. Surely ;hc concerns of a clerk outside his bank ire of no interest to the management mless he happens to have increased his ncome illegally at the bank’s expense. The clauses seeking to regulate the lomostic affairs of clerks arc worthy }f a place in the Army Act.—Free Lance. A reported engagement between a young Wellington couple lias been repudiated by the uidy concerned, who tells a curious story. A father passionate individual, who holds a good position in the city, and who has been paying tier much attention, induced her to go for a row in the harbour on a recent Saturday afternoon, and it was while out on the brir.y that he pressed his suit, and with such ardour that she became positively frightened. The result of his impassioned appeal was a refusal, and lie became so furious that he threatened that il she did not accept him he would capsize the boat. The lady, seeing that diplomacy was required, smiled, and said she had only been joking. The man then gladsomcly pulled ashore, but, on landing, the lady would have nothing further to do with him. Her father at first thought of laying an information against the fellow for threatening the life of his daughter, but, on her account, but desisted, and allowed the matter to drop. An important advance in the method of packing butter for export was advocated at the recent dairying conference promoted by the National Dairy Association at Palmerston North. This method is to coat the inside of the boxes with paraffin wax. At present the butterboxes are lined with a heavy-weight parchment paper, but that does not prevent the edges of the butter being tainted by the wood. On the other hand, boxes coated with paraffin wax' (a perfectly odourless but effective protection and quite impervious to moisture) have been proved to hold the butter free from the slightest taint. Another advantage claimed for the method is that the paraffin wax would save the loss of moisture which is now often absorbed by the wood. A shrinkage would still take place, of course, but the degree could be controlled, as the weight of blitter when unpacked in London would be the same weight as when packed in the colony. The cost of the process is only between a half-penny and a penny per box. The advantages of freedom from taint, saving in weight and general reputation, would more than counterbalance this trifling outlay. The system has been in vogue for some time in Canada, and has been adopted at the leading factory in the colony—the Dunedin factory of the Taieri and Peninsular Milk Supply Company, Messrs J. Nathan and Co. are introducing the system to the North Island