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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 9 April 1902, Page 3

This question of child lahqr in the dairy industry demands the attention of the 'Qoverninent quite as much as the Labor legislation of which it used to boast so freely.—Wellington Post.

As it has been in the case of the contingents, so also it is likely to be with the Conference of Premiers. The Commonwealth has not risen to the importance of tho occasion. Mr Seddon, on the contrary, ha§ sent forward a weighty programme for discussion, chief amongst the problems suggested by him beingTof penal reciprocity and- the fedpratibn 1 of the Islands of the ’ Sputh Pacific. The latter question, as may be supposed, lies nearest to Mr Seddon’s heart, because it is his dearest wish that New Zealand should be tho head of this federation. —OW

A Parisian inventor has made a watch which speaks the hours instead of sjiqkjpg them. 'English people eat on an average 85 eggs' a-piece a year, Belgians 70, Canadians 90 a-piece.

Sir Squire Bancroft has ir-r.de £12,000 for hospitals by his readings of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carols The largest brain on record was that ol Oliver Cromwell. It wv.g.uri a little over sixty ounces.

Prudence Smith, a gipsy, has died in the forest of dean, Glos., aged 107. She was an inveterate smoker.

The girl who is the close confidante of her father makes, in nine cases out of ten, the best kind of a wife. English miners raise on an average 300 tons apiece a year, German raise 320, and American 44(1 tons.

H R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, has been elected Pres-dent of Charing Cross Hospital.

Max Nordau declares that at the present rate of degeneration the civilized world will he crazy by 2300. If you want something Choice and Stylish in Gents’ Ties, call at C. Rosie and Co’s. A splendid range of Choice Designs in the Latest Styles.,