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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 January 1911, Page 2

It is a typical-custom of the present lay. for. fashionable hostesses to offer up i great to tlieir guefcs. No *'groat " iinn'er in Paris is complete without tiie . presence of. some, famous explorer, author, dramatist, artist, or—aviator. It .is fatiguing- to be a hero or a'genius nowadays.—"Cri de P<}.ris" (Paris). After having • heard the result of tb.a ■poll declared in Norwich Market-place, f a man named Edward Fox, of Essex - ! street, went 'home and hanged himself on, a staircase. A Liberal and a Laibour candidate were returned for the oonvstituency. • Eighty-seven miles of anaiple .planks and- 6,000,000 nails were -used' in making ; the roller-fikatdngl rink at Olymapicj London. . . / On th.e-, ( Telephone.—"ls that ..you, 'darling?"- .''Yea . . Who -is speaking?" Waiter .—i"We are quite up to date here, sir.—all the latesiij appliances. 'That steak was cooked by electricity." Guest (wiKo has been wrestling. with H.he sljeak .'.for some c th>en/ would you just, give it another fehock?" We .should regret, the abandonment of a ifunction wMeli < helps to {'keep the University in touch with , the civic -community, a.nd we suggest tha,t ithe executive of the Otkgo Students '■ Association .should - immediately take steps to. bring about- ja ' suitable understanding. ( They shoul'd undertake, to do their utmost to .secure the observance of the compac. ! ir.ade some years ago,, which, aftei all is based on very, liberal and | reasonable principles. , . On the ot'ae; band, 'the Chancellor and the Senate should try to; give fair play to;' whatever sense of/humour arid .proportion th'ey may possess, and refrain from taking a.'.tragic .View of. the. situation. , Also the speeches a.t the .orradua-tion ceremony should not be of too ponderous- a kind. Heavy disquisitions are relished 'as little by t'he general public as by the -students.—Dunedi-n c ' Star.'' . With- a mileage shorter by 43£. miles than the South' Island. trie North Island earned £15.500 more at an expenditure iof only £3200 -more. This .greater net gain of over £12,0'00 in the North Island as compared to. the 'South Island is for four iweeks only. Our North. Isl'ahd railwiays are a gold mine to the Department, for the larger investment of capital by interest-bearing lop.ns has gone {•'o the south with its vastly-preponder-ant mileage. Mr -Millar promises various improvements in .grading /and so forth 1 , which for some undefined "reason are to be paid for out of earnings, that is to -say, by the levying of high charges on present userf for the benefit of future users, br.i he says no. word ;of the desira.blenes-h of multiplying the geese which luyq such golden eggs.—"New Zealand Herald." I •; r W'h'jle the Commonwealth has benefited largely in t'he, past through the Sau Franciisco service. for which we had made ourselves chiefly responsible. the Australians were not prepared to let us -come into the Vancouver contract on fair terms last our competition should injure them. Th'i-S' -policy, we 'think, f.vtas not only unreasonable and ungenerous, but ishort-sis'hted and un-states-manlilce. and under 'fclie- circumstances we can 'hardly be blamed ■*or taking our own' course. The .painful sensation that Sir Joseph Wlard.'s supcesful negotiations have produced ip Australia is > n sign, and a measure of the immense importance of the -new service to us and the value of the advantages we htave secured.—Auckland "Star." ' i