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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2130, 12 July 1907, Page 2

The misery of headache is quickly banished by Stearns’ Headache Cure which promptly cures all kinds ot headaches, and neuralgic pains a. well. No one should bo without it. Advt. '

•v Wellington citizen, living in Newtown, has cleared £O7 in the year from 150 fowls kept, practically m confinement, The only attention the birds received was in the morning and at night.

Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board oPl'nid. (says the .“Westminister Gazette”), has promised « > by which railway companies and nUi '< corporations will be compelled <■ • close subscriptions to political bodies, and such subscriptions will be . U ;‘. ' t . ed to he illegal. He did tins " “ to secure the passage o U “ r ’° ', and North-Western Railway Company’s Bill. The ■arguments in In'out of allowing the companies to Jj nte to political associations aie well known. The companies are ratepayers and taxpayers, and have, an interest in the complexion of P* bodies in consequence, but the ’'"p meets on the otlior side 11 !, iuvi ', r keeping those great corporations wedding large sums ot money out oi tin political field are overwhelming*

A visitor to Picton. who has not sot foot in Marlborough for two yoais expressed his astonishment to a ropreontativo of the local paper on Saturday evening, at the rather remai liable progress made in Blenheim and Picton during that short period. Jhe ninny now building recently built, and'in course of orection in - 1 ,c t°“ surprised him, as he had known the place when a new house was a novelty As an installed of tho value of land in tho town a few years ago, lio stated that a portion ol a section ho had been worried to purchaso at a value of £IOO per acre had changed hands the otlior day £I6OO per acre, I first came to Picton, ho added significantly, ”£IOOO would have bought tho town.” Horse dentistry has made such forward strides of Into years that the following paragraph lrom tho bpoits oi the Times” (Now York) scarcely liuliishos cause for surpriseA curious phase in handling thoroughbreds came to light when it became known that Gilpin has been cavorting around the track daily with a set of lalse teeth. Tim horse had lost the use of Ins grinders, and was unable to masticate Ins food properly. He lost flesh and became So weak that Booker sought a veterinary, who located the trouble, and advocated several lalse teeth. A cast of the horse’s mouth was made, and a plate holding several guttapercha teeth was firmly secured to the front teeth. The horse improved m health and strength, and is nyw a good selling plater.”

Dr.'Morris chief examiner of teachers for the Public Instruction Department, of New South “Wales, on a visit to New Zealand, interviewed at Timaru, mentions a rather curious laet, namely that in Now South “Wales, New Zealand is known as “the country of continual drip.” They have the impression over there that we have a good deal pf rain here. In the North Island he found farmers complaining of too much rain, but in the South Island lie found the complaint was to much drought. In this connection Dr. Morris said that when be was in Oamru be bad been told that tliov had not had a really good rain there for the past two years, and in one field he had pointed out to him ten plough teams which had been turned out because- the ground was too hard to plough. He had been told that the drought had never been known to he so severe before. Notwithstanding this, it strudk him that New Zealand was a very flourishing country.

A gentleman who attended many of the functions in connection with the Imperial Conference has remarked (says the “New Zealand Times”) upon the apparent injustice of the reports as far as certain of the colonial Premiers were concerned. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr. Deakin were both, as a rule, treated with considerable liberality, while the New Zealand Premier and several others were rather indfferontly reported—indeed, were altogether ignored in some cases. This lie ascribed to the fact that the order of the speeches was generally dictated by the seniority of the colony represented by the speakers. Thus Canada, as the oldest of the dominions beyond the seas, generally came first. Australia second and New Zealand third, with the other colonies following. In the ordinary sequence of things, the earlier speakers were most liberally treated while those following were favoured with very meagre reports. Mr. Deakin was moreover attended by an Australian journalist who assisted ill reporting his utterances.

A highly amusing incident occurred at the Palmerston North Police Court recently. iV will be remembered that a while ago the Borough Council apxioiuted an Inspector ol Bicycles,* whose function was to he. to chase all and sundry cyclists who dared to ride on tho footpaths or without lamps at night-time. The other morning this official, in the course of his travels, bailed ill) a boy who was riding on the path and asked his name. While thus engaged, a man pedalled gaily past, also on the footpath, and the inspector set off in hot pursuit along the same track. Then appeared on the scene another man, whose name hail been taken by the Inspector a short time before, and who at onco saw an opportunity of squaring up accounts. He ranged ini alongside the Inspector and acquainted him with the fact that lie would be under the painful necessity e! laying an ittf urination against him for breaking the law he was specially appointed to uphold. The outcome of the- whole affair was the appearance of the Inspector at the Police Court to plead guilty to the offence for which lie had summoned others. The fine was 10s, plus 2s costs, which wao imposed, and will somewhat reduce tho 50 per cent commission he will get from other cases. In the . “Contemporary Review” M. Paul Sabatier, while profoundly regretting the measures taken against lUonsignor Alontagini and the confiscation of his papers by tho French Government, contnds that it is impossible, on the pretext that the sjesuro was a violation of the public international law, to ignore those pullers, or to go on .as if they had not been published. Hence his paper, which (says tho “Spectator”) condemns tlio intellectual, moral and religious bankruptcy of Pontifical dipfomancy, and the shameless tactics of the Clerical press. He sums up in the following weighty sentences: — “Catholicism is not injured, nor even religious authority, as tho centre and instrument of Catholic unity; but what has been irremediably destroyed is the influence of an authority which calls itself purely religious and desires tho henifits of that idealism, and yet involves itself mischievously in all the political questions. People think the Curia will absolved by the public conscience by stating, for instance, that a celebrated secret society does the same, or that all embassies are agencies of the same kind as that of the Rue de l’Elysee. Supposin that were absolutely demonstrated, it would not follow that it is excusable to indulge ill similar action. The diplomatists of tlio Holy See are not ordinary diplomatists; not only do they take precedence over their colleagues, but they are eelesi-astics—-that is to sav. representative of Christ.”