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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1380, 15 February 1905, Page 3

y The leading sporting papera are rejoicing over tho large and increasing sums of money put through the totalisator ma<r>bine and are pointing to tho fact as■ bviSen“o* of a love of sport I Nero fiddled Awhile Remo was burning. Carterton jB ’We < -tland —the abode of old age pensioners, the place, where fathers and mothers beilove their sous and dangb.e.s r have a claim on every Government bills < m that of Prime Minister down to the y unambitious individual who polishes up \ of the big front door of ParliaiNmimt Buildings.-Oamarn Times. ral|| i. If it is necessary for children to lo rn bow to cook while they are at school, and \J necessary for all female school-teachers to 1 be able to instruct in the art, what a the T flatter with insisting that teachers shall $ learn how to run a poultry farm or milk V-WOWS, or drive sheep isn’t every ""'sohoot-toachor a competent typiste and ■Shorthand writer ?—Lance, n The folly of forming an independent | T _i, n , Party berets obvious the W JSoSaC Powered. The workers policy of t, ruminant political party. Tbo energy claimed in establishing a ''astty of theja own would be more than eufncicnt fcf/yAvitalise the existing Liberal if*- ’ party Chnstqbhroh Times. The love of tho syersge Briton for £ freehold title to; his land is deep seated and obstinate and the demand for that luxury may yet prove to be a politico} r '4, force of somo magnitude even in New Zealand. —Melbourne Life. The talipot palm of Ceylon grows to tho height of 100 ft., and its loaf is so large -J vl -that it will cover from 16 to SO men like >{K 4am umbrella* '- t .