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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 251, 31 October 1901, Page 1

If it is given a fair chance, if its re sources are husbanded and developed, this country can stand by itself. To help forward its development by every available method, by encouraging the producer and the manufacturer, is the first duty of the Government. —Invercargill Times. * To our mind, the first plank of the Farmers’ Union should be insistence upon the reduction of Customs duties to a level which will constitute what is technically termed a “ revenue tariff,” as opposed to duties which arc levied in order to bolster up industries which, from the fact that such duties arc claimed to be necessary to keep them alive, are unfitted to the country at its present stage of progress.—Waikato Argus. Even if the salaries of members were raised to live hundred a year we might for a certainty count on them discovering a lot of little privileges that should only be granted to the “ salt of the earth,” as many of them regard themselves.—Grey River Argus. During the worst two years of the I'lack Death it is reckoned that the total death-rate went up to 107 per 1000 per annum; Kitchener’s prisons leave even that result liull-down on the fair horizon. They beat the death-rate of London in the worst cholera year ; in fact, they show a five times worse record than London | did in one of its great cholera visitations. Sydney Bulletin. If Mr Seddou had consulted his own dignity at the party caucus the other day he would have boldly announced his intention to raise the payment to JEoOO, or wou.d have definitely stated his preference to leave the question to the constituencies at the next general election.—Christchurch Times. Personally,'it is our opinion that the time will yet arrive when Great Britain and her colonies will arrive at a mutually advantageous understanding _ as to the imposition of preferential duties.in favor of British countries as against the foreigners. —Blenheim Express.

“ All that glitters is not gold.” A proverb old and true, Neither is a cough or cold What it appears to you. Do not treat it lightly, for ’Tis better to be sure, That you suffer never more, Get Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.