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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1031, 26 October 1903, Page 1

Six thousand people sleep in ihc open air in London every night. The St. Lawrence river is closed by ice four months in the year. King Edward has sent his photograph to the Paris Municipal CounC *A health resort exhibition Is a novelty adopted by Vienna. Tame snakes arc used in Morocco to clear house-s of rats and mice. The sight o£ a snake seems to terrify the rodents. Coral reefs grow very slowly, rlio German scientist Ilcilprin says that the rate is one foot in one hundred thousand years. . A Buckingham vicar has appointed a Mr Smitcr to succeed a Mr Thrasher as superintendent at a boys Sunday-school. The Kcsteven County Council have granted Sleaford £2849 towards the maintenance of the main roads during the ensuing year. John Fox, licensee of Hie & reyhound Hotel, Arahura, West Coast, ■was fined two pounds and costs ior Kflling liquor after hours to travellers who had not completed their juuey. The Liberal party has among its members a few men who object to the tactics of their chief, and are not afraid to say so.—Stratford Post It is remarkable that while we now ship nearly as much butter as Canada, our cheese exports ren^* D almost stationary;.—Carterton Observer. The Farmers’ "Union is a strong body, but the people of the colony are stronger still. Besides, not every, member of the "Association nor ■every farmer necessarily believes in freehold against leasehold .-Greymouth Standard. The Government wishes 1.0 pose as highly moral in its endeavor to suppress lotteries, but says nothing at all about the income it receives by way of tlie Government, totalizator tnx.—Grevmouth Standard.. •]

Political influence arid patronage, like the poor, have always been with us and it;seams hopeless to >expect a ’different result whife the present conditions exist.-Matfaia Witness, Mr Dutlife is a Little _ lander,” and he considers it is no part of this colony’s work to bear any share of the burden of Imperialism. He cannot or will not see that there is any necessity for British expansion.—Carterton Leader. We have a right to demand protection against trade monopolies ; but in gaining that protection we have o establish another tyranny, equally intolerable, we had better put up ■with the ills we have than liy to TtosewcTnow not or -Whang*™ 'Advocate. . ,

A fisirius boat sen nets miles off the mouth of the Wairaurahiri, some distance from Rtvertom and instead of hauling in moki as thev anticipated, they obtained nets fulfof trout, aggregating three tons and some of the fish weighing up to three pounds each. At the inquest held at Taih'apc oil the body of Miss Dalziell, killed by a coach accident, the jury returned a ,•verdict exonerating the driver, but added a rider that m their opin on drivers of passenger vessels should not leave the box when there were passengers aboard; At the Fciding Police Court on Saturday a porter named Leslie Polite aged about 23, pleaded guilty “ charge of robbery, and was remanded for sentence. He had been employed at the Denbigh Hotel for 1 couple of years, and in his box and under a wood heap in the yard there was found a miscellaneous assortment of clothing, jewellery, cigars. etc,