BULLETIN PARAGRAPHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1048, 16 November 1903, Page 4

BULLETIN PARAGRAPHS.

It would he a graceful concession to our worried friends at Home if •the new Federal capital were called Cohentown. It might “ help to restore our credit,’’ too. Two years ago Victoria expended .£290,001) on old age pensions’; last year, £210,000 ; this year it proposes to spend only £150,000. Under Kyabram, Victoria’s bowels of compassion will soon wither away altogether.

.The Freetrade Labor member is a trades-unionist that won’t tolerate an Australian who works for Is a week under the Australian union wage, but welcomes the products of the foreigner, who works for 10s a week less than the Australian union wage. A wine-grower on the hill-slopes behind Adelaide has patented a new wind-mill, made of highly polished kerosene tins, with marbles inside. Jfhe flash and the noise together have so far formed a complete protection from starlings and sparrows and save the expense of continual shooeing. The walking craze struck about its lowest depth of imbecility a week or two back in Melbourne, when some humorous ghouls arranged and brought off a match for one-legged men. The spectacle of the unfortunate' contestants painfully, pegging along the Brighton shore to provide a publican’s holiday made even the winkles weep. Dr Gilbert White, Bishop of Carpentaria, has come upon a race of blacks in a state of unexpected physical health and vigor in the region of the Mitchell river. Disease and degradation were supposed to be stamped upon the tribes thereabout, leprosy being prevalent. The Bishop, however, says that the tribe is quite exceptional—“ physically a very fine race, and untouched by disease.” It is complained that the Tasmanian potato trade is being ruined by the farmers’ custom of putting sundry shovelfuls of earth in each bag to increase the weight. Which is a very foolish thing for any Tasmanian to do—foolish in more senses than one. This • reckless exporting of the Flyspeck will lead some day to there being no Flyspeck left.