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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1441, 29 April 1905, Page 1

Whilo driving along Parritoota Road, on th'e Moama aide oi the Murray, Now South Wales, Mr George Parkinson, a retired grazier, living at Echuca (Victoria), was thrown out of a vehicle, and owing to striking a fence his skull was fractured at the base. Ho died a few hours later. A boy named Atbol Druitt, whilst shooting near Camden, Now South Wales, was carrying a pea-rifle, and when passing over a fence the weapon exploded, the bullet entering at tbe back of Drnitt’s right ear,.and passing-through . the - f orehead,“jusfr over the eye. The lad "is 'progressing favorably.' The Queensland Goverment • statistician estimates the, wheat-: crop for at 2,159,668 bushels, -obtained from 150,958 acres, an average, of' 14.24 'bushels per acre. - As compared' with 1903, this shows' a 1 of', IJ 2B7vi-36 -bushels,- altbongh' the ‘ aroa-i under > crop was--; increased; by 12,862 acres. .... , Tho state of education ;■ in Russia - may. be judged by the faot that tbere ds ODly one village schbol for every 12,000 persons. 'ln' addition - to' 23,000' copies of the Scriptures given 'to tho -JnpKnesie' troopsv' the British'Bible Societies 'sold 102,896 copies -in'Japan.'No fewer than 57 Britishpeers-have no heirs to 'suoceod - them. l That-number of titles is,:-therefore; likely to bccome"-ex-tinot on the death of their-presont holders^ No doubt there is a Socialistic party in the *■ Colony—comparatively 'insignificant in- numbers ‘ and influence—whose 1 views' of-reform have-their-origin in a'collectivist sentiment ; but ■ it l is'y quite' a- mistake to suppose'that the Socialistio-’ideac-(pro-perly‘understood) hos'boen largely responsiblo'for the 1 progressive legislation of- : tbe lost fourteen - years; We sre ; a practical' people; and our politieal-and social-experi-' merits-' are'-'not 1 much 1 concerned' with theoretical-considerations.'-'—Dtihbdin Star. Hardly' a' youtb with " any* brains '‘will take up the J duties -of■ a pupil teaoher Ss a means of earning -a “livelihood; 1 and'we e are' drifting'rapidly-to 1-the s tim'e' when the schools of the colony 3 Ji ‘ manned ” by la'dy;'teachdrs," drawirig* J littler- pay'and without 3 the' physical- strength' to assert their power over the unruly-olementstbat present' themselves for-'education' st-’our primary-schools.—Oatnarri Times. •- Many electdrs who'have - supported- the Ministry > would haVe' no' "ob j action "to ' a chaDge' of regime if they that the newl'ulors wou!d"maintain~'tha!r policy of reasonable' and ' progressive ■ Liberalism which has toms to bo regarded os almost a’ permanent "characteristic"'of 'New' Zealand politics. This, howover, is just what nd one can be sure'about'; or rather, to be' candid, there is grove reason' for ' questioning whether a Government formod by the. present Opposition would observe the re-” quired condition; —Dunedin Star. " ' Not many New" Zealanders visit Australia. The average New' ZeaUtnder does not know much about'us, but''then"he doesn’t want to. He -is so 'wrapped up in the contemplation of ‘ hid own virtues that ho haß no time to study ours.'— Sydney Newsletter. Even if it really were the Bible the wrongly-styled Bible in-aohools partywisbed to introduce into the schools, and not a liberally mutilated edition of it in the shape of an “ approved Bible text book” ; and even if all the sects were agreed that they desired the Bible in the schools ; then j the prospect of sectarian conflict and religious hotrods duo to tho eect3 seeking to influence the appointment of masters and to secure control of committees and boards, would be quite sufficient justification for refusing to risk the experiment ’ which-it is asked shall be made.—Napier Telegraph;

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