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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 3

The efficiency and honesty of the police force are of the utmost importance to the whole body of citizens, and the present excellence of the force is among the debts the people of New Zealand owe to Mr Tunbridge.—Wellington Post. In the matter of 'the new appointments to the Legislative Council which are announced, the general feeling will be that of satisfaction that they are not'more objectionable.. They clearly might have been so had the dictation of the Trades Councils been accepted.—Dunedin Star. But, talking of the North Island Trunk Railway, why should this be made an Auckland question at all ? The non-com-pletion of the line is injuring the South more than Auckland, because it is protecting us largely from southern competition, and assuring our own provincial markets to us. Auckland is prospering wonderfully, notwithstanding her isolation, and most probably in some measure because of it. Were it not for the fear some people have of the sea journey between One-, hunga and New Plymouth, and the advantage the railway would afford of travelling by land, we might be content to leave the line unfinished for the next twenty years. Probably, at the present rate of progress, it may not be completed even then.—Observer. " The Premier loves to assume the role of the professor of political legerdemain, and with a “now you see it and now you don’t ” introduction, he proceeds with his mystifyiug little soena.—Thames Adver-' tisor.

This isolation of the Maoris and cheeking the use of their lands is a barbarous idea, and is not only punishing the Maoris by withholding.from them the benefits of civilisation,’ but it i 3 doing a wrong to the European population of the colony.— Kawhia Settler. -

One thing that has been of material advantage in contributing to the general prosperity of the country has been the fact that New Zealand has, unlike some other colonies, possessed many centres of activity, but if concentration is to be further assisted by labor laws the future outlook will be gloomy,---Nelson Colonist.

What is needed now is a movement in favor of having cookery and laundry work taught to the girls attending the upper standards of the publio schools.—Stratford Post. . ■