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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1015, 7 October 1903, Page 3

"At present 536,000 children arc receiving elementary education in the London Board schools. Phthisis and tuberculosis arc answerable for 52 deaths out of 200 among post-office employees. Over forty-one million pictorial postcards were delivered by the Swedish post-office last year. Plans are being prepared for an (extension of the British Museum, cs•timated to cost £200,000.

Bridge whist is said to be supplanting poker as the popular gam>bling game on the Atlantic liners. An organ in Cromer is now blown by six fans, driven by a four-horse power electric motor. The hansom cab is being introduced to Berlin. It is all very well for the Premier to ‘ talk of members being bound to stay in Wellington till the business of tho country is finished, but, after all, that is meant for the gallery.—Hawera Star. It is a suicidal policy for farmers, oven a small section of them, to work against tho ! present Government. The whole trend of the Liberal policy has been in favor of the farmers, —Carterton Leador. The fact that the Opposition could so cordially join with the Premier, constitutes a striking testimony to tbe all but universal recognition in New Zealand of the value of Mr Chamberlain’s servioos to the Empire.—Napier Telegraph.