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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 263, 15 November 1901, Page 4

In a letter to the Dunedin Stai’ Madame Jansen, of Musgrove’s Opeia Company, expresses her delight with her colonial tour. She adds :—“ You are at liberty to state my opinion of Now Zealand theatres as buildings, viz., most uncomfortable, horrible death traps, except the one in Wellington, and that one is only of a fifth-rate kind from an European standpoint.—Hawera Star. Captain Russell is to be congratulated on the fact that in laying down the chieftainship he retains the highest personal respect and regard of all who have been associated with him and. for the sake of the colony, we hope that the example of honorable dealing and high-minded policy which he lias set will long continue to exercise a beneiieial influence on the House.—Christchurch Presh, The next item that strikes us is the tax on soap. Why iaoap v Wc have always been a cleanly people in Australia. Is this an insidious attempt on the part of the “ fat man ■’ to nn* 1 * 11 , . . .. me poor worker j further down in the scale of humanity by making him dirty by Act of Parliament ? Is the time coming when only a rich man can soap himself over, and have a good liliee. and the poor one will treasure a

piece of soap as an heirloom, only to be brought out on Sunday for the children to smell and feast their eyes on'?—Sydney Newsletter.

GOOD MEDICINE. If you expect to conquer in the battle of to-day, iou will have to blow your trumpet in a firm and steady way. The man that owns his acres is the man that plows all day, And the man that keeps a humming is the man that’s here tn stay. Dut the man who advertises with a sort of sudden jerk Is the man who blames the printer because it didn’t work. The man that gets the business uses brainv printer’s ink, Not a clatter or a splutter, but an ad. that makes you think; And he plans his advert’sements as he plans his well bought stock, And the future of bis business is ns solid as a rock.