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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1651, 18 January 1906, Page 3

The Bulletin iadulges in a little banter: “ Once again some persons have proposed t' at Premier Seddon should be next I Governor of Mainland. But Seddon, as Governor, would want to pull the strings all the time. Hoii Grey was Governor first and polit'c’an afterwards, whioh is a different case. Anyhow a person who allowed people to yell • Dick ’ after him in the street instead of ‘ Your Excellency ’ couldn’t be tolerated for a moment.” The notion that Mr Gilrutb, good man though he is in his own line, should prao* tioally ask the Government to make him head of a department, is ooolnes3 itself. Even the best of men are not indispensable, and the principal loss to the colony, f Mr Gilruth oleots to go, will be the value of the experience be has gained in ts service.—Observer. The Auckland Observer gives this patriotic paragraph Stated in the South [bat Post Offioe clerk Lundon, the least onlpable of the offenders in connection with the voucher soandal, is to be transferred to Auckland district. And this is talked of as a punishment. A transfer to Auckland is the kind of punishment that a good many civil servants in the other island would not mind even the sacrifice of a little seniority to secure. No great weight can be attached to the decision of a body in which an industry (that of the farmers) that accounts for thirteen millions of the fif- |

teen millions of last years’ exports has no voice. Oswald Warwick has finally abandoned the notion of winning nautical fame by sailing round the world in the yacht Kia Ora. He has not exactly burned his boat, but has sold the Kia Ora to a party of Opotiki people, in order to clear off the debts attaching to his unlucky trip from Auckland, and the mishaps at Tauranga and Opotiki, and has gone south overland. Probably Warwick was wise in can* celling his hare-brained scheme, but there are Auckland people interested in the yacht who may have a word to say in the final settlement.—Observer. Thus the Wellington Lance, in an article on bowlers The ability to play a canny bowl is a better passport to the heart of a timber roller than a note-head with a coronet on. Most bowlers have been athletes, of course, and most “has-beens ” of the football and cricket fields run to flesh. Bowling is a successful struggle against the onward march of adiposity, and the green the Mecca of true democrats. Think, too, of the qualities it demands from a man: a keen eye, steady nerves, self-confidence, even temper inured to ups and downs, and a good! judgment. What man thinks of the sordid cares of business as he leaves the green with somebody’s Feathers, or Ho and-so’s Ferns? What cares he about-seven o’clock dinner as long as the green is true, and the rival team keen. Then, the smalljijealousies inseparable from games of V skill ? Merely a spur to greater perfection. And when the tournament is all over, and the veterans present their freshly-peeled faces to the adoring gaze of their families and employees, what blissful times for all concerned. Never an angry word for months. There is do time for angry words when all their words are needed to “ fight their battles o’er again.”

wanted. WANTED —A MAN, to prepare sausage skins. Must bs experienced. £pplyMANAGER, Okitu Bacon Faotory. THE SEASON’S FASHIONS in Drapery and Mllinery, now on show, comprise a large s'ock, of Exceptional Excellence, unrivalled in style and quality. COMMON, SHELTON & CO., Limited, Universal Providers, Peel Street. OPOTIKI DISTRICT. FIRST CLASS FARMS TO BE SOLD CHEAP. X* ft AS PER ACRE FINE (T&O .JLW FAUM of 500 aores, fenced into 10 subbivisions; 350 acres good grass, 100 aores very useful bush, 50 acres swamp permanent water in every paddock. Will now oarry 1000 sheep. House, 5 rooms ; dairy cowshed, buggyshed, etc. School, 2 miles; oreamery, 4 miles; Price, £5 10s per aore, on EASY TERMS, viz., £SOO cash, balance 5 years at 5 per cent. jOQ PER AORE RICH SEASIDE LAND, 250 aores unimproved, 50 acres first class flax and ti-tree swamp, ea ily drainable; balance good dry land, ex* celleni for grass or root crops; § easily ploughable. Harbor frontage; sohool 1 mile ; wharf and post and telegraph office, 3 miles creamery, 3 miles. Prioe, £3 per a ore. Terms: One-fifth oash, balance in 2 years at 5 per oent. SAMUEL VAILE AND SONS, Land and Estate Agents, Land Auctioneers and Valuers, 95, QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.

I.KA. REMOVAL NOTICE. 'THE INTERNATIONAL LAND 1 AGENCY HAS REMOVED ITS OFFICES TO LOWE STREET, Opposite Maeonio Hotel, and next door to Mr W. Miller’B, C. B. DuLAUTOOB, Manager.