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Globe, Volume II, Issue 119, 17 October 1874, Page 3

Editing a paper is like carrying an umbrella on a windy day. Everybody thinks lie could manage it better than the one who has hold of the handle.

A man of average talkativeness speaks three hours a day, and at the rate of one hundred words a minute ; that is to say, enough words to till about twenty-nine octavo pages in moderate print every hour, six hundred pages in a week, and in one year tifty-two pretty large volumes. The Morning Pont gives a lengthy summary of the proceedings in connection with the remission of Gardiner’s sentence, and adds, “The whole subject, whilst bringing under notice the lawlessness and immunity from crime that for a brief period prevailed • nthe colony, is highly illustrative of the gradual emancipation from even the slightest home control that is still exercised in our possessions which enjoy constitutions of their own.”