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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1401, 11 March 1905, Page 1

Tbe advanoe ia rents has oreatod quite an acute position, more acute, perhaps, in Wellington than in Christchurch, and eitber the municipality or the State will have to take the housing question in hand. Christchurch Times. Thus a Bulletin London correspondent on Walter Kirby, the Auckland tenor; — “ I’ve heard moßt of the tenors here, but for mere beauty of voice there is scarcely a man in England who oan reach him.” Maud Williamson iB just now engaged in dramatising Stanley Wayman’s “ Count Hannibal,” Hawthorne’s” Scarlet Letter,” and also Hatton's Russian novel, “By Order of tho Tsar,” which is almost ready for rehearsal. The Labor Party has really become to the Farmers’ Union like a red rag to a bull; it has got on the creature’s nerves, and one result of the ailment is tho delusion that everybody elso’s nerves will be affected in the same way. Instead of making tbe Labour Party a bogey the union is making itself a bore by the wearisome repetition of this stale device.—Wellington Post.