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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1658, 26 January 1906, Page 3

The little Koyal William, a cutter of d(3 tons, which wallowed across from tlobart to New Zealand with the mail some sixty years ago, is still alloat and toiling for a humble crust. When the Union Company’s turbine steamer Mahono tore her way into the Derwent the other day, looking like a 1 streak of lightning with a red funnel, she met her impoverished forefather plodding into the same port with a load of wood.—Sydney Bulletin. Peter the Great once made a law that coats were not to bo worn in St. Petersburg below a certain length, and employed guards at the entrance of the city to shear off all portions of the long coats of his subjects which exceeded his measure. Seddon the Greet appears to be acting in a similar manner with private holdings. Every intelligent person favors small holdings in preference to large ones, but all do not believe in acts of injustice or spoliation. The Premier’s intentions are no doubt good, and if wm fail to reconcile them with ordinary notions of justico and right it is probably our own fault. We have not yet attained that sublime faith in him which leads many of his followers to believe that he is infallible upon every question,—' Wairarapa Times.