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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 160, 18 July 1901, Page 3

Hunt-orville, Waitara, and Dannevirke are going in for drainage schemes, and Dr Valentine is to advise in each case. CAN you knit ? Here is a rare chance Baldwin’s 4-ply Beehive Wools, in a few good colors, at 3s per lb. All other colors at 20 per cent, less than usual price.— C. Rosie & Co.

An attempt made by a settler of Wai-kouait-i to copo with the small-bird nuisance has been attended with very satisfactory results. After one setting of poison, strychnine being used, 800 birds of various kinds were picked up. This is probably a record.

There is no gainsaying tho fact that we are imitating the very worst features of the British \Var Office. Wo are paying, comparatively, huge sums for cocked hats and feathers, gold lace, and other trip - peries, while we begrudge or deliberately

refuse the commonest necessities of our citizen soldiers.—Carterton Leader.

A member of the Euginedrivers’ Union stated, at a meeting of that body at Wellington, that it was surprising that the roofs of many of the engine-houses in Wellington were not blown sky-high, from the fact that boys, who knew nothing about the business, were in charge of tho boilers.

Mr John Hutcheson, says that twice the wages paid to coal or to gold miners would not induce him to go down shafts to live, in the damp and other surroundings, eight hours a day of the short lifo allotted to miners. He favors eight hours for miners from bank to bank.

A curious pulpit reference to the elections was made at the Presbyterian Church, Queanbeyan, X.S.W., by the Rev. Mr Moffitt. This clergyman denounced the See Government, and urged voters to put them out of office. The entire sermon was a repetition of the indictments made by the Opposition, and Mr Moffitt concluded with the statement that the recent droughts and other calamities were proof of Divine anger against the See Government. The recent census showed a substantial

increase in the Maori population of the colony, but the Rev. Mr Bennett, of the Anglican Maori Mission, speaking at Wellington, said that he could not believe the increase was so great as the figures appear to show. In an appeal in favor of affording better educational Opportunities to Maori giris, Mr Bennett said there was yet hut one girls’ school for Maoris, the Hukarere school at- Napier, and through it 455 girls had passed. Of these only 29 might be said to have turned out failures. It was erroneously supposed by many that roost of the Maoris sept to schools aiidjeducated afterwards went back to Maori customs. He would guarantee that for one such ease brought forward he could cite 20 of persons who had not gone hack. But there was this fact to be faoed—the young Maori, after being "educated and acquiring European customs, and wishing to marry, looked about in vain amongst his own people . for a woman suitable to become his wife. This was another strong argument in favor of education for Maori §irlsi