LANCE ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1047, 14 November 1903, Page 3

LANCE ITEMS.

It cost Tasmania £20,000 to kill the smallpox visitation. Tasmania will have to “ go slow ” for some yoars in consequence. A man was recently fined 40s for offering trout for sale. He could have bashed a policeman, or half killed his offspring for less.

Thore may be objections to Chamberlain’s proposed visit to Now Zealand. Wo want no one hore who might overshadow King Dick. Thousands of ex-irregulars are walking the streets of Johannesburg in a “ deplorable state,” according to an ex-New Zealander now on the Rand. If it is not true that the Newtown licensing appeal case is to bo abandoned, people want to know why tho new hotel should be placarded for sale by auction ? The Prohibition Party still hold the opinion that it is an interference with the liberty of tho subject to prohibit the drinking of alcoholic drinks—in private. While the country is anxious to see that the people get wholesome meat by employing inspectors, that most unwholesome animal, tho pig, is not inspected. Most frequently ho has tuberculous growth (like a bunch of grapes) on the liver. Why this remissness ?

The question as to the payment of members of Licensing Benches is being generally discussed. Wellington Reform Licensing Committee would scorn lucre. Try them. Within twenty years Now Zealand will suffer from droughts as severe as those in Australia. Four anda half million feet of timber wore cut by one sawmill last month.