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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 1

England has possession of a great many of the best parts of the earth, from which the other nations are excluded. To constitute the Empire into a trade union, and restrict these nations in such trade as they have now with Britain and her colonies, would produce an exasperation of which it is not difficult to estimate the amount, and which it is certainly not desirable to provoke.—lnvercargill Times. After a congregation had attended the humiliation service and prayer for rain in a church in a northern suburb last Wednesday, the male portion were immediately called upon to take their coats off and work their hardest to protect the edifice from a bush fire.—Sydney Sunday Times. Is the lease in perpetuity system going to put an end to speculation ? Scarcely, for the unearned increment in the course of the 999 years during which the lease has to run will afford almost as much scope for speculation as a freehold.—New Plymouth Herald. • One salutary effect this heavy loss has already bad; it has caused the fire of Imperial purpose to burn with a more intense and whiter heat than ever throughout the colony; and never was there such a strong and general demand —not for | vengeance, but for a continuous, deter- | mined, effective p.roseoution o£ the Imperial aim.— Dunedin Star.