Untitled

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 374, 25 March 1902, Page 4

The Auckland Herald thus refers to that City’s Mayor : —Mr Kidd has consented to allow himself to be nominated for a

further term as Mayor of this city. It would have been hard for him to refuse

the pressing solicitation of the very representative meeting held yesterday afternoon at the Council Chambers. For this personal appeal was supported by a requisition signed by 800 citizens, and in. eluding Dr Logan Campbell, Bishops Cowie and Lenihan and tho leading business men of Auckland. It is the more necessary that Mr Kidd should retain the office he has filled with so much zeal and energy, as a great amount of public work is in progress with the direction of which he is intimately associated, and which might be unduly disturbed by his retirement. At the same time, the city owes a debt of gratitude to him, not only for his past exertions in the public interests, but for his willingness to continue, at considerable personal sacrifice, a trust which in his case is far from being a sinecure. Mr Kidd's unassuming affability has made him a popular Mayor, but this genial character is but a small part of the qualifications which justify the urgent desire for his retention of office expressed by his requisitionists, a desire which we may safely say will be endorsed by the citizens of Auckland.

The result of the drought at Goodooga (New South Wales) has been a general exodus of the inhabitants, and business is at a standstill.

Quite a number of visitors from Australia and England have arrived in New Zealand recently for the deer-stalking season. Most of them are bound for Wairarapa.

“ M'Kinley got his deserts. My term will soon expire, and then I will see that Roosevelt gets the same dose,” said an intoxicated United States soldier at For Colombia, Washington. This hss bee punished with ten years’ imprisonmen