POINTS IN PASSING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 4 September 1908, Page 2

POINTS IN PASSING.

! A gentleman writes in the New Zealand Herald," under: the heading of i " On the Verge, of '■ Spring,"-"strid" this is some of the stuff ho gives us —'"Ihe time may come -nhen Auckland will bt a many-millioned city, eating up the buttei of the Waikato and the King Country, the fiuit of the No them Pen- | insula, the beef of a thousand lulls, mi- i poiting wheat by the ten thousand tons iiom overseas " It^doesn't seem to mo th.at rt is -Spring that wntei is^ pn the Veige fii pf; but never 'mmd. Tho thing ,1 want to point Is that ifftero nothing "in the lunacy that j^o'ads a man^to lppjcforwaid with satistactionvt^ tfie time when this,county vill impoit wheat by tens of tliousandsot tons. We aie apparently becoming lesigned, tp the idea tha.tr, m, time we shall not b"e able to' Teed omselves/ Tf yen will take the trouble to consider tho position^ of N,ov Zealand on the map, you may even yet lealize thai that is a quite abominable resignation Mr Hall-Came contubutes to "M. A. P." an aitic'e on " How I Became a Novelist."'. But he doesh't say Why. .: Ii one is to believe:the police magis-; trates and a bishop oi- ..two, there' aj-e many heathen in New Zealand. Mean-! time, down here in .Wellington,; tho'Rbv. Tudor Jones and the Rev. Isaac Jolly are tearing each other's throat in the " Dominion^" each in defence of his own special doctrine of the Atonement. It might be pointed out again how't&so Christians love one" another; but, according to Mr Jolly, Mr Jones is not a Christian at all; iso we must c'en leave it at- that. : ;

i A medical quack in Christchurch has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Such a sign of activity in Christchurcn is really very cheering. One can only hope that when the medical quacks are used-up a start will be made on the others. Cnristchurch is so full of quacks of air sorts that half the < population regards them all as honest practitioners. '■'.'■''"■

AucLland lias asked the Government tor six new railways. There must be more dry land up there than we have been led to believe. It is simply disgraceful the way these remote towns and districts are slandered. ;

It you would know the true delight of iite when you visit Wellington, go out to Island Bay on a dusty tiunday. You shall find crowded trams and snarling conductors. Out" at the Bay the sun will 'scorch and the winds wither you. You will bring back variegated .recollections. Island Bay is the water-ing-place' we Wellirigtonians are really fond of; but, we don't attempt to make -rfi'comfortable, because that would., : lead to something we dimly but devoutly dread as tho Continental Sunday. It is: extremely unlikely how that thing will: bp done this session to mend tho Law of Libel as it affects newspapers. Ministers promised; but lime flies. Meantime, and until such time as Parliament shall bestir itself, £he nowspapers suffer grievous disabilities. Publication in good faith should be the one test as regards all reports of public meetings; and in other matters our law might easily be brought into line with the law of England, wJiicli is reasonably stringent. C'f Piarlian-.bnt generally there is little to be added that is uew. The session proceeds drowsily. .-Members are certainly not in working form. It appears to be impossible that the session can terminate in mid-October, unless important Bills are dropped and important work is scamped. There is always a tendency to drop Bills and scamp work on the eye of an election; and in the present circumstances that tendency is especially deplorable AVo ishall see.

Meantime, I have a nervous headache. Twice a year they come, and they are really very annoying. One must not talk about them at the time, because if one does one is immediately ceset by silly people with reputed remedies. I have been recommnded to lie on my back and let water trickle into my mouth, and to lie on my face and clap hot towels on niy neck; to .■drink_ hot water, and to chew ice; to take very patent medicine known to ignorance, and to take no medicine at all. To have a headache is bad enough", but the thing may be borne. : But to bo advised what to do to euro a'headache—ugh! • -.-.