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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1439, 27 April 1905, Page 3

Two years ago the sheep stocks of New South Wales had been reduced by tbeloog continued droughts to less than 26 mil- ! lions, ii fallen from nearly 62 millions • p I'v’l \O/ experts are said to | V*-.'*' y end of the year there tfjt, ion sheep. <^ii , he''contract for the erection of new fteV/hises for the D.1.C., extending from Panama to Brandon streets, Wellington, was let to Messrs Mitohell and King, the builders of the new Bank of New South Wales on Lambton Quay. The price is about jE33,000. The Tyser liner Marere passed several icebergs on the rjin from London to Melbourne, one of them being only about three days’ steam from Port Phillip Heads. It is dpnbtful if ice has ever been seen nearer Port Phillip Heads, As showing the ravages of tho small birds on the wheat crops in East Taieri, Otago, a prominent farmer in that locality had a crop which promised to yield fully 40 bushels to the aere, but owrng to this pest the crop has only threshed out nine bushels. .

“The dainty drawingroom, with its pastel shades of silk and brocade, and its delicate furniture, looked suddenly small when Mr Seddon came in,” writes Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, in the Daily Graphic, describing an interview with the Premier of New Zealand in a Christchurch hotel. “ Mr Seddon has a way of making things and people look smallrin his presence. This is the type of .rntin to tame an unbroken young oolony, to ride it with an armed'heel and an iron hand, to sit out its kicks and buckjumps unmoved, and finally to drive it forward in therace of nations to a place far ahead of anything that a less determined rider could have ■readied,’’. . ' .