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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1794, 27 June 1906, Page 3

The Auck'aud Observer on Rua : Unless KiDg Edward comas by flying machine, or some miraculous meaDS, to Gisborne within the next few days the Maori prophet Rua will be discredited utterly in tho eye 3of his followers. Rua made the mistake cf flxiog the date in bis prophecy as to tbe Royal visit, end preoiseness in suoh matters is fatal. Seeing that tbe moon is just as likoly to fall as King Edward ia to come to this end of the world, Rua will simply have to suffer from bis want of knowledge of his business. There is a rival prophet in the field, one Weroia, who knows his way about rather better. Tbe other day he declared Rua to be “ all same as Dowie, tjo muoh te humbug ” Wereta, of course, oonsiderß him* self the ody Simon Pure, but ho has eviI dently some acquainianca with the other I humbugs of the world. Wo have had such a run of good 1 luck that we have forgotten the bad times of the eighties. But if they were to return we pity the Minister to whose lot it would fall to take over the reins of Government. The taslc of Sir , Harry Atkinson in 1887 would bo a , trilling one compared with that.— r Napier Herald.

Educationists are the most conservative class of tho community. Here in the twentieth century our boys and girls must be learning Latin because, forsooth,' it was the language of scholars, and covered practically the wholo availablo literature for study three or four centurios ago. We suppose that for eighty per cent, of the boys in a school like the local Boys’ i High School the tyne given to the study of Latin is time absolutely wasted. —Christchurch Times.