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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1430, 14 April 1905, Page 1

"When the To Aute footballers went back to New Zealand after running over tho college teams of N.3.W., they told such wondrous tales of the land of the ’possum and the bear that the Hawke’s Bay Maoris aro wild to send an adult team across to wipe the floor with us, and, incidentally, have a good time. As an Australian Bugby team will probably visit ;New Zealand this season the N.S.W. Union is likely to drop the proposal outside with a loud bang. The Maoris have cheerfully intimated that they are quite prepared to send their team along without any official sane- ■ tion if the matches can be arranged. They are very strenuous sports, those Maoris. Bulletin. Bightly helped and with full justice in all things the Maori should live tho life of the pakoha, end Jive it profitably, if ho can but fully awaken to tho possibilities of his position ; —and it is such talk os that of Mr Carroll at Kawhia that is calculated to so awaken him, |if anything is.—Masterton Age, Jt has become an accepted fact that at the ago of sixty-five tbo citizen should become a tax on tho State. Persons who aro not poor, who could well live without State aid, apply for and draw those pensions simply because they “do not see why they should not receive on income as well ns certain other mentioned individuals.”—Maugonui Times. It has taken tho Premier eleven years to find out that the tenant has some rights indivisablo from his tenrure, but, inasmuch as the promulgation of tho belief was part and parcel of the convictions of the Opposition, Mr Saddon would not succumb till just before a general election, when the votes of a rebellious tenantry may be required to equalise what may have gone wrong in other directions,— Oomoru Times. An egg 9id. JoDg and; 7in. round has been laid by a Cochin China hen in Cat-' skill, New Jersey. Naples is described in a Consular report -just issued as probably the best-drained city in the world, China has a National Biography, devoted entirely to women. It contains more than 24,000 miles. In Mexico sohool children are allowed to smoke in school hours when their lessons are well prepared. Only 18 per cent of all the families in America employ domestic help, leaving 82 per cent without even one servant. The bed of she Pacific Ocean is believed by scientific men to have at one time been above water, and inhabited bj> men, A