Supreme Court.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 269, 22 November 1901, Page 1

Supreme Court.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

Nelson, last night. In the Supremo Court, before the Chief Justice, May Gifford was admitted to six mouths’ probation for concealing a birth. Walter Williams and Jabez Hall got six months’ hard labor for theft of Government moneys at Motueka Post Office. A total of noarly £250 was missing. Both prisoners had pleaded guilty in the lower Court.

When he appears at public functions, and speaks with his native directness and absence of “ claptrap,” Mr Seddon shows himself at his best.—Paeroa Gazette. A great many who can afford the trip go to Hobart, a New Zealand desert, the metropolis of the South, annually, for weeks, or even months, at a time.—Our Home (London). For sheer 11 cussedness ” commend us to the Bailway Department. A little common-sense drilled into those who frame the time-tables is what is urgently necessary.—Woodville Examiner. Members of the House of Representatives now get .£3OO a year. Wo are seriously thinking of contesting this electorate with Mr John Stevens after next session with such a bait in view. Manawatu Farmer. Changes-there may yet ensue in the New Zealand political world which may afford this worthy gentleman (Captain Bussell), an honest politician, an opportunity of serving his country as a Minister of the Crown. —Marlborough Express. If the Government wish to convince opponents that a State mine can be made a payable concern, they will develop the fields that possess the most advantageous conditions, namely those in Mokihinui district. —Westport News. “ Measures, not men,” is what the country requires, and if half the “ men ” at present occupying seats in the House were carefully placed under water for twenty-four hours, the country would be all the better for the result.—lnglewood Record.

Our members run in packs like wolves, or Tammany combinations, simply for individual gain. Some of them are not worth their salt. A few are positively harmful, and very few of them are worth the full amount of per annum.— ' Rangitikei Advocate. The sternest moralist must admit that with recent revelations as to the way the dredging boom was 11 worked ” by certain Dunedin people, the speculator on a horserace has a much better chance of getting fair play for his speculation than an investor in dredging claims. —Marlborough Express. The return of the Yorks to England was a whole-hearted affair. It was the demonstration of the peoplo and for the people. Tommy \tkins was so unaffectedly glad to sec us. He was not roped off from us, nor monopolised by the colonial aristocracy, and it will be long beforo his memory has been effaced from our minds. —Rangitikei Advocate, While laws bavo heen enacted for shortening the hours of labor, the men who framed these have set a bad example bv compelling the messengers, clerks, and others- employed during the session, to work long hours. Evidently' t the “ .Liberals ” do not believe in practising what they preach. —Palmerston Standard. From every side we hear of depression, but the majority of the members in the House calmly steal out of the pockets of the people .£4.500 for their own House.— Ellesmere Guardian. Possibly tho most appropriate commentary to make in regard to the proposal is that as those who professed to condemn the snatch vote by which a douceur of forty pounds pocketed the money all khe same, so those who are shocked at the latest proposal will brace themselves for the inevitable now it has come. — papier Telegraph.