GENERAL ITEMS

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1357, 18 January 1905, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS

A corner block in Vivian sirsef, Wei* lington, on the electric tramway routu, realised on Friday at Auckland £3200, or about £52 10s a foot. This as a, section e.f the corner of Vivian street and Tory street, an area of 149 perches, with % frontage of 60ft lOin to Vivian street and 67ft 2in to/ Tory street with a. butcher’s shop upon it, leased at £lB2 per annum. The property was sold under instruction from the executors in the estate of the late Jacob Joseph, and the purchaser was the Eev. H. Van Staverern, the Jewish Babbi* In one of the suburbs of Auckland n clergyman, was busy the other day nailin a refaotory orceper to the trellis wor’ ~ his garden. Opposite the gate esrual stood in the road-way closely obse the operation. .“ Well, little man, served a neighbor who was passing, glad to see you taking an interi gardening.” “ Oh,” said the yottn that’s not it. I’m just waiting to what Mr will say when ho hife. thumb.”—Observer. The question at issue (as the CiSfL’’' tenants’ right of purchase) is not as whether the tenant should pay for im ! ' provements which ho has made himself, and in which his interest is already recognised by law, but whether ho should be made a present of the increase in the unimproved value whioh has taken place through no exertions of his own since he first made his bargain. Mr Massey mayspeak of sock a process as a ecientiSe* readjustment, but to ns it savors of hafi-. faced robbery.—Wellington Post. If paronts, legislators and the Seeders of our communities, with their wives and youthful children, indulge in gambling what can be expeoted of the generality that is growing up ? It i 8 contemptible to beg the question. Oar national welfare will not bo advanced by “ howling ” at the totalisator and continuing tep gamble and encouraging the vioe at t'jia same time.—Masterton Age. - It is proverbial that any Act of Parlia» moot may be evaded, and at the present time the Magistrates themselves are giving exactly opposite decisions in regard to some of the clauses of thß new licensing Aqt. As a consequence the bona' fide trave.llor is very much alive in Wanganui and very dead in Oamaru. It is a costly process to discover what the New Zealand Parliament means by its meats.—Morton Advocate. If New Zealand is still to retain her proud commercial position in the van o 5 the produce supplying countries, she nanlt put forth her best efforts, ,and use every weapon that knowledge and science places at hand. Formidable rivals, stow compete closely with our produce ia She London market.—Stratford Post. * sg There are many persons in New Zea-' land who can ao more resist the disoass of drink than they can resist influenza and if you are going to treat the man wit’ delirium tremens to a course of gaol utt -" : ~' might just as reasonably hale ./ patients before the magistrate, r.nSiaPjjp them to gaol for being so wicked, as to fa. a victim to the scourge,—Lance. In his amended divoroe petition, Calon*3: : , (Buffalo Bill) t doolares that ais wiftat attemhtsd (,o. poison him. refused fco re% ceivei his,I friends, and tried to humiliate 3 him by appearing in old and soiled clothes Commenting on the “ encroachments ** in South-Western Persia, the St. Peters burgh Buss declares that once that reei'nn is in the hands of England, Russia ca n iiavo no access to the ocean, * During the absence Jon tcjus of ft* e Bargy, the well-known French actor,' ~f the cook in his Pang insulted the butler, and the fatfar, to revenge himself demolished most of his master’s crockery with revpjver bullets, & Fair-haired people have the best b, lof hair, 14,0,00 ato 260,000 being quirn ~ - ord,aar y orop on the head of a fair mauo* ux ■ _ The longest underground thoroughfare in Groat Britain is in Central Derbyshire whore you can walk seven miles upon a ** road connecting Bevoral coalmines * The American Federation of Labor has unammous y adopted a resolution in favor of the exclusion of Japanese from the mted States and its iu ß ul R 5 goS : ‘n B !