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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 3

What is believed to be a Roman coffin of great antiquity has been unearthed during some draining operations on the Stanley, estate, near Derby, England. But from any point of view that pan be rationally defended, the Government have no more right to cross-examino an applicant for land as to his practico or views in regard to marriage, or as to the size of his family, and have no more light to favor married or unmarried, as the case may turn out, one against the other, than they have to institute a similar form of inquisition when a person desires to buy groceries, To get back to sound principles of land settlement it is necessary to abolish the lottery as a means for disposing of the right to acquire Crown land for settlement purposes.—Napier Telegraph.

Tho Palmerston Show, like everything else, has, writes the Wanganui Chronicle special roporter, its humors, and just hero it may be interesting to record a small piece of economical advertising perpetrated by an evident admirer of Swan’s pale ales. The big colored posters exhibited by the Association are familiar. In ono of these, representing an interested crowd inspecting tho porky occupants of the pig pens, there is the picturo of a smartly attired lady in the foreground, apparently gazing at the monster pig. The witty man, whoever ho is, has inscribed the legend “ Swan’s pale ales ” on the lady’s hat, followed by tho qusrry “ Where is the ale ?” and the answer 11 In the hog’s-head 1” The London Model Yacht Club was founded in 1884 by a number of enthusiasts, including several noblemen, retired military and naval men, and a number of private gentlemen. Tho membership is over 50, and the clubhouso is in Kensington Gardens, the Club’s racos boing competed for on the Round Pond. A large proportion of the members liavo built their yachts themselves, and it would be difficult to exaggerate the porfect dotail with which these models are constructed. Each is compieto to the smallest detail, and is a veritable working model of a racing yacht. Their cost varies from 4220 to 4225 and more, Tho rudders are specially contrived, and are of various sizes, to be employed according to ciacumstances. and are made of a double skin, arranged so as to accommodate a series of leaden bars botween. The rudder is weighted with these bars according to the estimated force and dirootion of the wind, and by a judicious manipulation an almost taarvellous exaotitu<3o of course can bo attained'