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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 November 1912, Page 3

Ask local Drapers to show you the famous Roslyx Wiutixg Pads, Gd and Is each.

** Preaching in Liverpool, the Rev. Gordon MaqLeod (Presbyterian) said that though he did not wish to touch party politics from the pulpit, ho must plead for more fellow feeling among fellow men. A tidal wave of sympathy towards each other as brothers and sisters —this was what we needed in society to-day. His conscience compelled him to say that such Acts as the Old Age Pension Act and the Insurance Act —whatever defects these might have as at first drafted—were in the line ot: what he would term " God's politics." To use an illustration, was not a mother . who had struggled to bring up a family so that they became good workers in the nation as entitled to a pension as an Arm}' officer who put in twenty years' service aad possibly during all that time h?ul never faced, a foe '■ Was his work of any greater value to the State than hers ?

Napoleon's homo at Elba was up for sale by auciion recently, which brings to remembrance that the faJlen Emperor is alleged (says the London Chronicle) to have perpetrated the following sentence, which reads the same backwards a* forwards. It is :'• Abie was I ere I saw Elba." Now try it backwards. But it is certain that Napoleon, whose French was not of the best, could never have invented that perfect palindrome in English. Will the Massey Government Wear well —equal, say, to the ißoslyn AllWool High-grade Clothing and Unshrinkable Underwear " Delta finish? If so, New Zealand, will have reason to be proud ot its new Prime Minister.