GENERAL ITEMS.
Tim Free Lance states — That a negro waiter in London was admitted into select society by posing as a Maori chief. This is a hint for real chiefs. That a motion at the Presbyterian Conference, “ that the dress worn by the Moderator be in future dispensed with,” caused smiles. The suggestion reads like a defence of prehistoric raiment. That Kaffir servants stick to Now Zealanders. “ Friday,” a First Contingenter, appears in a photograph given by a weekly paper, amongst other blacks attached to the Seventh. That the Premier has joined the small army of non-smokers. That ladies shopping in the eitios of the Commonwealth carry around copies of the tariff and the free list. Living goes up 15 per cent, in Sydney. That, while the “ clomenc.y of the Crown ” is to bo extended to some New Zealand gaol-birds in June, there is no talk of an increase in the police force. That a proposition, at a meeting of town councillors down South, to the effect that the secretary should be presented with an “ honorarium,” was said to be out of place by a councillor, “ as the secretary couldn’t play one."
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 263, 15 November 1901, Page 3
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