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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1378, 13 February 1905, Page 2

Mails despatched from Sydney via Vancouver on Dec. 27th., arrived in London on Feb. 9th, In 12 marriages out of every 100 one of the parties has been married before. The largest pontoon bridge in the world is at Calcutta, and is a permanent structure. About 60,000 wedding rings are deposited every year at the municipal pawnshop of Paris. In England one man makes a fortune to eight that become bankrupt. At Galgong, in the Harden district, New South Wales, a farmer, having lost everything, was seen on horseback galloping madly round his blackened paddocks as if bereft of his reason. In bad times, the colony would not have been able to stand the burden which the present administration has placed upon it. Their policy is essentially a fair-weather policy. It makes no provision for a rainy day ; indeed, it does not appoar to enter the heads of the Ministry that it is possible for any diminution of our prosperity to occur.—Napier Herald. The conditions imposed by the Licensing i Act are drastic in the extreme, and remind < one of the Btate of affairs in a country like 1 Eussia. One can hardly conceive that it < is a law operating in a country like New Zealand. By this Act a gross injustice f has been dono to the public, and the in- 1 suit to their citizenship is beyond compre- I henßion. Anyone would think that the £ public were a set of barbarians whose e liberty was controlled by the State.; — 8 Greymouth Argus, *