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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1818, 26 July 1906, Page 4

A wax flguro, life-size, of tho lato Mr Seddon is now to bo soon in tho Bourke street (Melbourne) waxworks. It is said to be a perfoct likonoss. Tho Tussniul Bros., of Loudon, also coutomplato adding tho lato Premier's figure to tho collection of celebrities.

gome 10 or 50 third-class passengers joinod tho Corintkic at Capetown, somo of thorn being booked to Australian ports, and others coming on to JSow Zealand. Iu conversation with one of those, a New Zealander, who has been out iu South Africa for some years, tho roporter learned that tho South African labor market is glutted, and many of thoso who flocked to that country are endeavoring to get away again. Ho expressed tho opinion that with a more settled state of affairs, which may bo expected a couple of yoars lienee, there will bo ample room for woikers of various classos, and more particularly farmers, in South Africa. On the goldfields, only tho leading bullion producing mines are at present anything liko fully manned, and little or no development work is proceeding, owing to the difficulty of securing Kaffir labor, and tho growing fooling against tho employment of Chinese. There aro, ho says, immonso bodies of low grade ore, which would prove payable under cheap labor conditions, awaitiug development. In the hope of bettering their position a number of leading Waikato King Country, and Tauranga Maori chiefs aro drawing up a petition to Parliament. The petitioners state that tho native land laws are in a state of great confusion, and so complicated that not even clever lawjers can understand them, much less Maoris, who are constantly put to heavy law costs in obtaining and protecting tho titles to thoir land and property. Tbo petitioners also state that thry have been deprived of the rights and privi leges of British subjects by reason of tho numerous restrictions contained in the Native Land Court and the Native Land Administration Acts, and aro impoverished through boiug unable to deal with their surplus lands. In view 7 of this they ask ihat during the present session tho whole of the Native Land Court Acts bo consolidated and ro enacted in a form which will bo intelligible to a person of the nativo race of average understanding, and that a measure be passed restoring their full rights as British subjects, and removing the restrictions against the alienation of native land. They wish to be allowed to manage and alienate their lands, subject to proper protection from fraud, retaining sufficient for the occupation and support of their wives and families.

Two recent social functions, functions that had been postponed until the King’s return, mark (says tho Tatler) a record —one, a ball, cost £SOOO, the llowors costing £2OOO, and the other, an afternoon concert, must have dipped into the purse of the lady who gave it to the extent of £IOOO One of the artist’s fees consisted of a cheque for £OOO.

No chemist, who sought in va3t agos Tho phantom Philosopher's Stone, Has handed down that which assuages 7 ho tbroit-trcublo always so prone. Till Woods, alter thirty years' trial" In tests both exhaustive and sure, Discovered a abarm to defy all Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure.