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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 225, 30 September 1901, Page 3

It is time that the enlighteued practice of the law courts were extended to the benighted Legislature, the slave of ancient and° unreasonable custom. —Westport News, on Standing Orders. We shall expect soon to hear the labor unions have joined forces with an employers’ union to protect themselves from being victimised by undesirable legislation which is ostensibly made for their benefit.—Waimate Witness. Mr Gilruth may be a very fine veterinary surgeon, but the farmers of Canterbury have come to the conclusion, after inspecting his pick of the blood stock of Great Britain, that he is no judge of horse flesh. His selections certainly compared j very unfavorably with the bulk of the I other animals on the ground.—Truth. Mr H. A. Stratford, S.M., of Dunedin, who has occasionally performed magisterial duties in Wellington, gazettes a change of his name in the following terms: —" I, Henry Aldborougk Stratford, of Dunedin, in the colony of New Zealand, barrister-at-law, Stipendiary Magistrate, etc., etc., do hereby give notice that, in compliance with the request of the Honorable Lady Henniker, and out of love and affection, I have assumed, and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to sign and use and to be called and known by, the name of Augustus with and before Henry Aldborougk, and the surname of His Excellency the Eight Honorable Lord Hartismere—Stratford-Henni-ker—in lieu of and in substitution for my present surname of Stratford. . The Marine Marchande publishes plans and notes of a five-masted barque of 9000 tons burden, which MM. Prentout-Leblend and Leroux, of Rouen, are about to have built, and which is to be the largest sailing ship in the world, exceeding in size the S'2oo-ton ship now building at Geestemunde, in Germany. This French ship will have a total length of 142 metres, or nearly 465 English feet, 4264 ft between perpendiculars, a depth of 294 ft over the keel, a displacement of 12,500 tons, and will carry 9800 square yards of canvas. The journal remarks that if the construction of the ship is commenced in September it might be put on the French register before the end of 1903, and would crown the fleet of 200 odd steel sailing ships built in France under the law of January 30th, 1893, which if it has cost money in building and sailing bounties, has, on the other hand, enriched France by the freights taken from the merchant shipping of other countries,