GENERAL ITEMS.

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

GENERAL ITEMS.

It Is too late in. the day to revise -■if- (the principle mat taxation and representation must go together, amt .until imporial federation shall have advanced, far enough to give formal l expression to. this principle in the ro- ' lavtons existing between the Home country ancl the colonies, our contributions .to the navy, must continuo V' .to be entirely, voluntary, and spontaneous., We do not say. that the scale of contribution might not reasonably be more liberal, especially in the case of .Canada, and as Mr )*- iialfoiur promised the deputation that [the Colonial Conference' .will be at liberty to discuss this as well as any, other colonial question, an initerim adjustment may, perhaps, oe amicably arranged.—H.Z. Herald. m Australia a Governor's private secretary .told an irrepressible repor--Sjter to go a place warmer than Aus- ' • ttralia with "the beat wave splashing ■over it.- The request was seized upon for a ; readable item ; but a KaJdicat paper then chimes in with tnese r- nasty remarss : “ The fact suggests the need of revising one current notion of natural history- Governor's private secretaries in Australia have ' valwaya been loosed upon as pinkeyed rabbits, without the- shadow oi a cuss in them." .George Bean, who figured in one of the most exciting criminal cases in (Australia, has resumed his old occupation of a ferry-boat master. :rue long t-erni of gaol has left its mark on Dean, but he is still a youngT looking man. • A South Australian brewer 'decided twenty-one years ago that as he had not long to li,ve he would show A his sympathy for the old fellows in, r the Home for, Incurables by sending them half a barrel of beer each ween as long as he himself lasted. He is. . still keeping up. strongly, though he is nearly ninety years of age. A isy.dney, paper states : “ There fare more vicissitudes in politics, .than in any other, calling- on earth. Who - remembers Joe Winter nowadays . Winter was a .Victorian Haborite, •and held Albert Park when he died iii 1895. Many nominations were made for Winter;’s seat, and some of' the candidates, who, were snaalljbore individuals then -are large-bore persons' nowadays, and vice-versa, j. b. Tucker, was nominated in tne iLahor interest* and won. .Tom Bent (now Premier) got 19 votes, and lost his deposit. Daglish lost his l£oo along with Tommy Bent. How Bent is Premier of Victoria, and West Australia-. Sam Manger, anorther defeated candidate, now bpfds a safe seat in -the Bederal Farlia-

J~. -Ta' 38-: .Taylor ftesrtSmonial is not doing as well as was esgeo - The crowd Who cheered, etc., on the niaWeof the veudict, aren.’t good atpSig wffia it cornea Jto The Eineh. t.iChristchurch. Spectator. A; lady. - writes m a Sydney, paper s' + *-tea ‘ Up at iUlm-arra the bubopS&xat has poked his hateful to lo.ve’s yowpg dream with ghastly -'"consequences in two cases. m one. a. loves calling on his beloved- caught *he Plague from her andr dxed t «. the other, a girl who Persisted- an visiting her lover when he was a victim to, the disease, succumbed to the contagion.. .Wonder- whether the average married man or parrie man would rise -to the height of call ing on the lU&-E,ar,tneE <m a Plague S- &£& Se both caught in the usual thunderstorm,, is oppressed _ 7. - different fears when his Wife doesn t *£» Sto. ■ *»*%*gs£S£> -a^ravatingly Sver the proslect of an increased iiixes&maker's bill. E.' Vic Education Minister Sacbse is now eiv«j wer ,° Government officers wore trying to hoover rway of P-iehing him for lose -y- juajeate.—Budotin.