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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 32, 29 November 1901, Page 4

' The detentiou of shipping at Capetown still continues, and on September 11th there -were 10 steamers and 42 sailing vessels in Table Bay, with 40 vessels 1 in the several docks.

It is understood that the Right Hon the Premier will turn the first sod of the railway extension to Ross prior to his departure to attend the Kin'g coronation in London.

The Post says :—There is an extraordinary provision in the - Municipal Corporations Act of last session which has probably escaped the notice of a good many people. We refer to the clause -which enables a Council to appoint committees -which may consist wholly or in part of persons who are not Councillors. Clause 62 provides that any such committee shall be subject in all things to the control of the council, but it is contradicted by clause 61, which reads as follows :——" El very committee to -whom any powers or duties are delegated as aforesaid may, without confirmation by the council, exercise and perform the same in like manner and with the same effect as the council could itself have performed the samej' '

The next item£ that- strikes us is the tax on soap. Why soap ? We have always been a cleanly people in Australia. Is this an insidious attempt on ishe part of the "fat man" to push the worker further down in the scale, of humanity by making him dirty by Act tjfaparliament.—Sydney Newsletter.