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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 48, 26 February 1901, Page 4

Among the N.S.W. Federal candidates is a man who once carried two policeman off Bosehill racecourse, one under each arm, and dumped them into their own lock-up. A formidable adversary. The comic element obtrudes itfclf grotesquely in N.S.W. Education Department. The Education Minster, who is a brewery shareholder and a jolly good fellow to boot, has signed a lot of cards cursing drink, for the walls of the State schools. One of the noted Black Watch was asked by a Miltonian what he thought of New Zealanders. “ Oh, they are fine scouts and'brave fellows : still,” he added quickly, “if we did what they do in battle we would be shot, for the simple reason that the New Zealanders are too independent, and at times disobey orders.” Napier has at last entered the list of butter exporting ports (says the Hawke’s Bay Herald), the Mahora dairy factory having sent home 20 cases ,of butter in the cool chamber of the s.s. Selkirkshire. From this modest beginning everyone will hope an important trade will bo developed,