The World's Press.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7709, 11 January 1905, Page 3

The World's Press.

COLONIAL CRITICS. English people often make the mistake of not being well enough dressed when travelling in the Colonies. Their dowdiness is agreement subject of comment among colonials.—The Queen. OUR DAILY INANITIES. If an exact shorthand report of all that he had said during the day could foe given to a man of average refinement and sensibility, he would go away and commit suicide.—Barry Pain, in the Author. "BARKIS IS WILLIN." It ought to be possible to do something to matitain the equilibrium in the Eastern Question. Such an object would bo best served by a special agreement .with England in the nature of the Anglo-French agreement.—Govosti, St. Petersburg. THE LATEST COMPLAINT. An old gentleman, travelling in the same carriage with a party of "golf lunatics" on a certain Irish railway, becoming somewhat weary of their unintelligible jargon, quitted the carriage with the following commentary —"Well,. I've hear of 'housemaid's knee,' and 'tennis elbow,' 'bicycle face,' and motor mania,' but ' golf jaw' beats them all ["—lrish Field. REVOLT OF THE YOUNGER SONS 'lhe question, "What shall we do with our sons ?" is one wliich is now being continually discussed by a class of parents which formerly regal ded that difficulty as the special trouble of those whose social position was inferior to their own. It can have but one ending ; the younger sons will eventually agitate in their thousands to have the law altered which settles the property on the elder son.—The Graphic.