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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1051, 19 November 1903, Page 3

From 1880 to 1890 54 per cent, of the American increase of population went to tho cities. Between 1890 and 1900 only 30 per cent, of tho increase was urban, while there is reason to believe that tho percentage has declined still further since tho new century canto in. This is a hope ful sign, and is no doubt owiog to some general cause which will gradually become world-wide in its operation.—Exchange. The South American States are always so ready for a revolution, which seems to bo the national gamo in that part of the world, that it would take the barest hint we may believe to rouso the people of Panama to action. It would be sufficient to suggest that by secession they would have tno beneht of the whole of the Gnited States subsidy, instead of only a part of it, to bring about the present position. —Exchange.

If this couutry is to bo taxed to pay subsidies for a mail service every three weeks, mstoad of one weekly at only a fraction over tho cost of the former, merely to give expression to tho hostility of some persons towards British subjects with brown skins, we shall, presumably, follow this up by a measure to prevent Maoris being employed where white men are available. We fancy that bir William Russell, as he listened to this rubbish about Lascars, und recalled some of the attempts to prejudice him politically in connection with a proposal to introduce Chiuero navvies into New Zealand, must have experienced some vory 11 mixed " sensations. —N apier Telegraph. We take the following from a Yorkshire paper “ Home is not so much home in London as it was.. It is oftener a pretty, reception-place. Children are not welcome ; they put a restraint on gadabout mothers. The changes of recent years in domestic architecture have all been such as to make it easier for women' to lead a pleasurable, free life. There lias been, at the present time, an enormous increaso of tea-shops and restaurants, and a broadening doivn of the practice of having days at home —till every, clerk’s wife follows it.” reached.