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'People' are wondering what, in particular Masterrtoa has done that J. •O. 'Williamson, Limited, should have passed us by with H. B. Irving and "Hamlet." Even in "dry" towns ghosts are treated respectfully. •Erance has had great difficulty in securing the services of a Premier. And yet John. Payne, M.P., of. Grey Lynn, New Zealand, is wasting for a position of the sort. "Here we suffer grief and pain." Mr C. H. Poole, ex-M.P., of

Auckland, is leaving in a few weeks' time for America, where it is reported that a Presidential election is shortly .to be held.

A remarkable thing about the ruminations of the Njb.W. Totalisator Commission in, New Zealand is that, up to date, they have been unable to discover a solitary racing man who does not favour the fcotalkator. They all appear to have "tickets" on it.

Th© "Evening Post" thinks that the wild use of the word "Reform!" by some of the Opposition papers tends to make the word become mere ''jargon" meaaus,-something unintelli"jargon" anesCLas so>niething unintelligible. After" all, " depends chiefly mpon the reader.

The Labour paper in Auckland is known as "The Voice.;; It is said to be a modern adaptation of "The Voice that Breath'd o'er Eden."

A writer in the Dannevirke "News" is politely severe. He says: —'''Visitors to, the baths yesterday could not fail to -recognise That there is some splendid material here to work" upon."

" A memiber of the Masterton A. and P. Assooiatlon'is .Oomanittee innocently asserted' on Saturday last _'that "afternoon tea should not be sold in the morning." To, this moment nobody has .seen the joke.

The Stratford "Post" has come to the conclusion, after apparently deep meditation, that "there are on the farm many odd sheltered patclies which 'wiouJd very miudh more profitably be occupied an producing pumpkins in growing weeds."

[ Thus Magistrate Kemriok, at jwieiease the fine tor riding on foot- " paths, as previous fines appear to, i have had no effec+ The roads do not • appear ■to be bad—on> the contrary they seem to, be very good. However, it will be £he usual firae—this : time."

A river worm known a® the "gordius aquatieus" has been presented to the Otago Museum by aschoolmaster named "Abel." Which suggests that the "gordon. knot," after which the reptile is named', may sometimes be used by Mr Abel in lieu of the "cane."

Members-* of the Wairau Hospital Boayd are objecting -to the admission 'patdents\.lb;,'.th«ir'M ..tipii J; -'L3terasy, ; Wair au: ;.?*•: :isaid .to. mean! "more:'vVatei'." .'..:,'";-*--:;•.

A report has been circulated in On'istciiiurch that a gang of pickpockets is operating in the city. And the; newspapers cannot understand why people are not alarmed. 'lt isibly not'occurred to them that&the festive season is just over.