Sir John McKenzie was an apostle of thrift, and the sworn and unflinching foe of land monopolists and all their Protean devices. He wanted no drones in the hive. Only the men who are honest and improving occupiers of the soil remain there. Even State help will not take the place of industry. The drones are weeded out by their own thriftlessness, and the fittest only survive.—Free Lance. A boon, unwittingly conferred by Kruger on the civilisation of the world and on the causes of Freedom and .Justico, is that he has brought within the sphere of practical politics the federation of the whole Anglo-Saxon race.—Waihi Daily Telegraph. Why should we not have a General Insurance Society for Buildings—not merely a fire insurance one —a society which would insure buildings against any and every form of danger, against the ravages of decay, or earthquakes, as well as fire V Blenheim Express, The southerly buster at its height, With wind and rain and sleet, Is bound to give us every night Wet clothes and cold damp feet. Bad coughs and colds must then prevail, We’ll try to make them fewer, And take a dose of never fail— Some Woods's Great Peppebmist Cube.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 186, 14 August 1901, Page 1
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