PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1545, 29 August 1905, Page 3

PERSONAL.

[Bulletin.]

©earn Selwyn, whose widow was re •cently fouried at Newcastle, came to Australia to grow sheep and cattle .and live the life of the pioneer squatter.' He came of a clerical family, and was only a short time out when he determined to cut the sheep business and take to the church, Newcastle, Morpeth and Maitland were the scenes of most of his church labors. His father j -was an English canon and his mother the daughter of a bishop; ghe was cousin of Bishop Selwyn of Melanesia, and his widow, just deceased, was the daughter of a clergyman, The Selwyns are long livers, most of them reaching 80 years and several getting past the 90th milestone. ggThe late no-confidence motion in Wostralian Parliament was a first* .class exhibition of political acrobatics. After turning 14 complicated somer-.-fla/iilts, the three parties alighted exactly where they were before, and 1 tfho Opposition has felt pretty sore and stiff in the knees since. It missed Hanson, its acrobat-in-chief, who is BonWaly 111. Nanson is a clever man, but 'he is led astray |by his anxious ambition and is always running after two omnibuses at once and missing them both.

Premier Carruthers, of N,S;W.; “ Intemperate advocacy of a wholesale reform delayed that reform more than !jmything else.” Well, did anybody .ever accuse Carruthers of intemperate advocacy of wholesale reform? Im•,temperate sitting on a rail, and a tendency to get drunk on compromise, .are more in his line. Premier Morgan, of Queensland, favors the proposal to do away with the useless and time-wasting Addross-in-JReply, which invokes a general chat on everything. under the sun,, and leaves everything just where it was. It is strange that that utterly needless palaver and promiscuous gossip wasn’t abolished long ago. ■ ■\ -■ - ■