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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 280, 5 December 1901, Page 4

What we should like to ascertain is this • —Allowing for the increase of the adult population, does the number of teetotallers increase or not? If it does increase, then the non-abstainers must, ot necessity, spend more in their refreshments and, if it does not increase or diminish, then we can assert that the cause of temperance retrogrades. If we consider for a moment the condition of the Old Country, we find that prosperous years make prosperous brewers and distillers. But a time of slackness turns the tables. The facts seem to lead to the conclusion that the moderate man in adverse times takes nothing, but in favorable times is able to afford himself a little latitude. • Which ever may be the correct view of the question, one thing, at least, is certain: That nothing even approaching a satisfactory alteration of whatever the state of things may be has yet been discovered, and that if some indisputable tables were made public, something useful might be done. —Observer.

Probably no session of Parliament for the last twent}’ years has effected so little useful legislation.—Napier Herald.

Of course, it is recognised that Sir .J. GWard is the only possible successor of Mr Seddou, and the prevailing opinion is that when Sir Joseph’s time comes he will completely reconstruct the Cabinet.— Westport News. We would rather see wool at sixpence a pound than the carcase at any price.— Hunterville Express,