GREAT FLOODS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1551, 6 September 1905, Page 4

GREAT FLOODS.

HUNDREDS PERISH,

By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Shanghai, Sept. 4.

Great floods have occurred at Shanghai. .Villages havo been domolishod, and hundreds drownod in Wusung and Puting districts.

An ' Auckland theory : History has ropoated itself in football. Wellington has dofeatod New Zealand, Auckland has dofeatodWellington, and Thames has dofeatod Auckland. Therefore, logically considered, somobody ought to recall tlio New Zealand team from England, and send the Thames fifteen Home in its place.

Like Humpty-Dumpty who sat on a wall, the new party of four are riding to fall. At least, from one end of tho colony to the other, that is the general impression, and wo cordially join in tho belief. But mere fall will not pacify tho colony. Kawakawa Luminary. It seems only the other day that John McKenzie was declaring in Parliament that he, and presumably the Government, was prepared to stand or I fall by the lease-in-perpetuity system. I John McKenzie’s: firmness and force I of character fastened that system upon tho country. Since that time, enormous sums of public money have been spent on the policy of bursting up largo estates and letting the land to applicants on the lease-in-perpetuity and other systems. Was this policy wrong ? If it was not, why does Mr, Seddon tolerate any departure from it I now? Having.acquired the freehold from one owner, Mr Soddon is prepared, if Parliament says the word, to I allow another owner, and a leasehold one at that, to obtain the freehold again.—Observer. An English cricketer who was rel cently married returned home to find his wife in tears. She had been read- : ing the report of a match between Gloucester and Yorkshire, and had I come to the conclusion that it was a

horribly barbarous game in which her husband delighted. “That Jessop is a perfect brute,” she sobbed. “ Why? How ? ” asked the husband in amazement. “ Well,” she went on, “ it says he cut Hirst twice in the first over, and knocked Haigh all over the field. He drove Brown junr., to the boundary, and on Rhodes going on, hit him clean over the pavilion. Hirst came on again, and what do you think that Jessop did? He skied him, and I suppose the poor dear man would have been killed only somebody with square legs ran up and caught him. That’s why I say Jessop is a brute, and ought to be suppressed.” This is how the Auckland Observe’' rubs it in “ They say that Y, T ellingI ton voucher bluff sounds uncommonly like Wellington football bluff. The best “ pack ” in New Zealand, fit to travel the world, was Wellington’s estimate of its football self, and then it went down before the dregs of Auckland football.” The Observer unkindly states that ’the Herald’s attempt to make a sensation in connection with tho unsettled Maori lands won’t work. The inhabitants would be more interested in the mysterious murder of a Chinaman.

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