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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1370, 3 February 1905, Page 2

It is rumored that a new brewery is about to be started in Hokitika with a powerful syndicate at its back. Mr Kaye, a Christchurch merchant, who has just returned from a tour in Australia, says South Australia has had the best harvest on record, and the wheat was of the finest quality ever grown there. In the nick of time in last October splendid, rains fell, and the weather had since bees favorable right up to the end of the harvest. The result would be that the consignments to Europe would give entire satisfaction to buyers. In Victoria tho conditions had not been quite so favorable, but the quality was fair, though tho bulk of the grain was not nearly so clean and well harvested as that from South Australia. Queensland is endeavoring to find a us® for banana leaves. It is .said they can bo”'; prepared in such a manner as to be suitHi able for plaiting for hatß, much in the same way as other straws are utilised for light summer headgear. In particular coarse leafy straw hats have come much into vogue of recent years among young*" ladies who affect the picturesque, and it is-*' quite feasible that the dried banana leaf may prove “just the thing.” Anyhow, Mr Grant, of the Queensland AgeDcyGeneral, is making inquiries in France,4: where these coarse, broad straws are prepared and made into hats, and will report on the mo3t approved methods and modes of manufacture. To the market for coarse straws there is no limit. v

An ingenious tost of sobriety is now be-' ing experimentally adopted in Continental towns. On entering a publio-house the would-be drinker finds that the only way to the bar lies along a platform 3ft - high ' ascended by three steps. This platform is about 12in wide and 50yds long, following a zig-zag coarse, with here and there an obstacle to be stepped over. One who has already had a drop too much is thus prae.‘%* tically certain to fall from this narrow ana™ difficult pathway to the padded fl 00r especially to receive him. Sober ones aro served in the order in which they reach the bar ; if they require another drink thev must traverse the platform a second time w and so on.

A writer in tho Sydney Bulletin thus prophesies what sport is coming to • “ Samuel Johnson once declared that »h B rum was assured of a nation wholly over to trading, which brought about “ internal increase and entailed 'a mere gambling Iwith values, without aby“111 ■ addition to the sum-total % i wealth. Were his ghost to re-v^Ti J earth to-day and take passage from hisba loved London to Australia, he would hi compelled to re-model his aphorism „ b f / ask how long could a people ex ; st ?? an< * / wholly devoted to sport-even withTk*' aid of thtT foreign money-lender ? For »*•* are apparently rapidly ■»*,„. forwti epoch wherein all mu/ablefbodfed* 0 be?s men and womou, will bo n m f«J- lea : botb ; bailers, cricketers, cyclists bna?* • f , oot ” scullers, anglers, [swimmers/ pedestrians, pugilists, two-UD Kni«l' P ycrs » ms players, rifle shots and fockevL”’ l®- 1 ?' ' most of the older and physical. 7® ’ Wi ? ,,a will earn their daily broad m7i ü ßpablo barracking, betting, training, sweep-promoting, g’ h °.® . and gambling. The

will live by sbop-keepfogT r ’ * any ' entertaining and preachi,,’,, -run ponies all tho week?,' ItT few will , temperance on Sundays. 6 talking possiblo that, in the days tc®' Sours6 ' it is championships will be'heldS° me . all the which will beco|ff n Australia, ground of the world^atrdoviM 10 .tbs play* by charging the ; other na^^rl ais 8 revenue sion—so much to laud, so or adrnisremain, and so much ' a Week to races and sports them goingV 'on to tha days, the Australian XT. \ ’ W Federal Cabinot ;$ & A. N 1 Prime Minister ; Latljf Folej tho High [CommissioLerehip 1 lucrative post of referoo ove a ... iSyB national Boxing Matches ; and Jff’’\ den, Swimmer Cavill•and Foot!# it jl ham will .'constitute tho Hiefc W the - disposes then august body being of a sportiX' hat is what we ate cotuU, g Cter '