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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 19 July 1902, Page 3

The Conference of delegates of the Farmers’ Unions of the colony, which sat in Wellington during a portion of last and also this week, might very well have been called the Parliament of Farmers. They took their business very soriously—so seriously, in fact, that Mr Reece, of Rangiora, had to remind them at one stago of the proceedings that they were noflegislators, but merely advisers. Still, there were the makings of many a legislator in that gathering, and it is not beyond the bounds of the possible that some of those same delegates will be called up higher when the general election is concluded at the end of the year.—Lance. If Mr Seddon were really sincero in his preferential trado claptrap, he would encourage trade with the other colonies and the “ dear old Motherland ” instead of hampering it. Also, if ho cannot build his locomotives and railway carriages in New Zealand, ho would order them from Britain instead of America. Then the scandal would not exist of having our railway sheds filled with what he himself has denounced as condemned rubbish, in the way of locomotives and carriages, at a time when all the rolling stock in the country is urgently required. But Mr Seddon’s policy is one thing and his platitudes about preferential tariffs and the - dear old Motherland” a different thing altogether.—Observer. See our Grand Display of Photo 1- rames Albums, Cruets, Brush Sets, Ping Pong, Writing Cases, etc. Scores of Useful and Dainty Articles, direct from London. A 1 value. —C. ROSIE AND CO. Old Age Pensions in this land Have proved a marked success, They give the old a helping hand, And keep them from distress. There’s only just one other thing That’s needful to ensure Sound lungs, that we the praise can sing Of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE,