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Observer, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 14 September 1912, Page 23

. Aubrey Mallalieu, who was here with " The Mummy and the Humming Bird" (April, 1908), "Breed of the Treshams" (October, 1909), "Girl from Rector's" (June, 1910), and " Seven Days " (May, 1911), is at present with the RickardV vaudeville circuit in Sydney, in a clever comedy sketch by Cosmo Hamilton. Miss Douglas is his partner. - • • Whatever may be said of the blatant; if not blasphemous, travesties of religion indulged in by many of his followers, the founder of the Army appealed to the slum-dwellers of London by his revolution of the missionary methods of many Protestants, especially of the Exeter Hall variety.—Sydney " Freeman's Journal." * * * The new Government has already indicated its intention to make the work of roading precede settlement, and we hope it will do so, for the time is n oy« than ripe for such a change. It is, in fact, the duty of the Government as soon as it possibly can, to come to the rescue of the isolated back-block settlers, and to assist those local bodies that are struggling to relieve them.— Wanganui "Herald." * * * The libel law of New Zealand was framed by politicians, and by ho ordinary politicians either. It seems to have been devised to keep the. public from enquiring, with too intimate attention, into the colonial-made brand of statesmanship—a statesmanship which, on the whole, seems to be only a little lower than a road board, and only a little higher than a fruit cart. —" New Zealand Journalist." * * »