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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 865, 26 January 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

Lord Kitchener is (the Empress says) the man to restore peace. He has been unfairly ami unreasonably accused of Citleity ; in fact, he is essentially a man of business, applying to war the obvious rules of adjusting practical means to necessary ends which every trader employs to his vocation. It it is necessary lo kill, he will kill. It it be the truest mercy to be merciless tor the moment he will he merciless. He is the man we want.

The Transvaal War has been full of life's little ironies. The Palace of Justice in Pretoria is the latest example. This gorgeous monument to Boer duplicity, but built with Inlander gold, was jusit eon,pit ted in lime to he used as ihe chief British hospital after Lord Koberls' occupation of the town. On the first of this month it was handed over to (Jeneral Baden-Powell as the headquarters of his police. After all thore is some justice about this palace—poetic justice.— Evening News.

Trooper Bueklaud, writing to his father iu Uunedin from Klerksdorp, says : —" Have I mentioned that very stringent orders have been issued against 100 tine. V ISo trooper i:> allowed to buy anything from a private house—much less loot—uuless accompanied by an officer. The lowest sentence for this dreadful crime is live years' penal servitude, and the highest; hanging. Our dear old M'ij >r, the finest an I host man in the whole army Major Davies —is dreadfully anxious about it, and says he has passed sleepless uights thinking over the possibilities of the business." Vanity Fair has the following from on •, who w.is with the relieving force at Zeerust :—The troops under Colonel Hore, who were surrounded by Delarey's commando in Auuust near Zeerust, were mostly Australian miners. In the ordinary course thev begin to dig trenches in which to protect themselves from the Boer fire ; hut as they dug they fouud traces of gold, in pursuit of which they gic.v so eager that they had got down to considerable depths in search of the metal when the relieving force arrived. The men weru wholly oblivious of the fact that the Boers were a- idling them ail the time they were digging ; and, indeed, the enemy had killed all the cattle and horses iu the hriger. Great is the power of gold. A great deal of interest has bi.en excited at Home and on the Continent through investigations recently made by the London Society of Antiquities into the matter of the discovery of Printing. As a result ot their researches the Society have discovered that the Chinese were not, as is generally believed, the inventors of tin 1 , graphic art —iu fact the first printer being none other than Adam when he imprinted the first kiss upon the a ir cle ■ k el' Eve, and, we are given to understand, made a good impression. I h't is toe kind of printing which is done at the Waikato AKUCS Office, fcood printing. Our plant is the most up-to-date in the district, ami most suitable for artistic work. Give us a trial and you wall be as n,dl pleased as Eve teas. W ado's Worm Figs, the Wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for auults or children. Price, Is.