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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 817, 4 February 1903, Page 4

No country of any ago cau point to such rapid changes and such marvellous advances as those which men and women still living have witnessed in Now. Zealand within the last 60 years. And Auckland city at least can justly claim that her growth has been as wonderful as that of any city in these Southern lands. From the day when Sir John Logan Campbell I started out from Motukorca to lind a homo on the shores of the isthmus, a wondrous transformation has been worked alon" the Waitemata shores. Where the bush° stood, and the Maori camped, (JO years ago, there stands a populous and wealthy city, supplied with all the requirements and most of the luxuries of the most advanced civilisation. If parts of our province have not kept pace with our city, the delay in their growth is duo hut to transient causes which cannot permanently obstruct it.—Auckland Star. A correspondent of an English journal was 'recently informed l>y a Cardinal well known ioi his learning, that file Papal Commission on Bible cxegisis was intended to further and encourage Biblical researches. Nobody

(said His E'minence) is a wanner supporter of the scientific method in Scriptural research than Leo XTIL, and precisely for this reason lie wishes the study of the Script ores to be iiuilerlalien scientifically by men worthy of the task. Hitherto many ambitious and restless critics with a smattering of erudition have done run'.ij harm by disturbing simple in,mis without materially contributing to the science of .'scriptural research.- 'flie .Secretary of the Commission is a learned English monk, Father David Fleming, Vicar-General of the order of lUinors. It- has been slated that one of the first acts oi the Commission will be the publication of a monthly review dealing with Biblical studies. The necessary cost will be defrayed by the Pope out of his private purse. As a memorial of General Want hope (wim was killed at Magersfontein) a soldiers’ home is 10 be erected at Perth, tn Scotland. Wolverhampton Town Council, England, has built two blocks of dwellings solely lor tenants whose earnings do not exceed 20s a KMi.