THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 18 September 1906, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

AX OBITUARY. Nothing that a dollar was able *o buy quite compensated him (the late Mr. Kusseli Sage) for the pain ot parting with the dollar. —"New York American.'' HINT FOR ROSES. Many peop'e put off inseiting cuttings of roses until the Autumn, but this is often a mistake, and means an extra year before the plants are of flowering size and condition. —"Gardening World.'' GENIUS FOR ARCHITECTS. The architectural student should be encouraged to think for himself, to think originally, and to take pains, and we may succeed in obtaining a greater crop of geniuses.—"The Buil ders' Journal.''

OUR ADVANTAGE. Our power of rapid building is an advantage of enormous value, and we shall have the Dreadnought in Commisson before rival Powers have hardly laid their answers down on the slip.—"The Shipping World."

GERMANY'S NEW HOBBY. "Germany's future iies on the water." The Kaiser has said this a hun dred times, and yachting is mw ob'igory. Every good German now navigates, cruises."sails before the wind,' and sports a yaching cap.— "Journal," Geneva. POLICE CHAGRIN. The proposed abolition of the mo;oi-car speed limit has, we understand, caused much dissatisfaction among the Surrey constabulary, who fear that if it comes into force they w II be compelled to revert to the detection of crime.—"The Bystander.''

LATEST FEMININE DESIRE. Women, proverbially, has the last word, yet how often must she sigh that convention would grant her the first. Half the conversational ifficu:ties of which we hear are due to the fact that it is "bad form'' for women to take the initiative. — "Lady's Pictorial."