Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The sudden use of a tittle-known word is sometime sur P r MP^'^p Morgatfs^iftde to the muttennfs- abd^^ie f6rmaj||^^n: they were to have a Welsh party, a Scotch party, a Labour party, and, a Temperance party , . what, was to beoonie of.the great Liberal party ? Theymight as well shut up shop altogether, and hand over the reins of 'government to the Conservative party for the next 20 years,. To this list m :^y hftjad(||(| ! two Irish parfci^;fea^^a|pndint Labour or Sop!Pmtc^i I r.ty#and ■Mr LabouTheaseof^be word in this case is almoit^ilSlSined by the enumera* tion bf^|lte : number of parties, the Great Liberal Party has got split into. " Fissipavous "is described in the dictionary to be reproducing or multiplying by fission or spontaneous sellLdivision, a mode of asexual generation by division into two or more parts, each of which, when completely separated, becomes a new individual"; it is the usual process among the protozoans, protophyfces, and other low organisms. . •'Fission," the act of cleaving, splitting, or breaking into parts. The human foody isitself compounded of innumerable microscopic organisms which multiply, as the infusorial monads do, by spontaneous fission.