LANCE ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1508, 17 July 1905, Page 2

LANCE ITEMS.

Here’s fame for cricketers ! fTrum,per, Noble* and Darling have been seized By; the Madame Tuesaud authorities for wax reproduction. iTheir images will grace the Baker street flxhibition. Mr Bchlianj, o£ the . Legislative i Council, is- not exactly a backward ' sort of, y.oung man.. - He thinks exmembers of the Legislative Council should retain the title honorable,, and also the free railway passes for life*, anything more ? Australian society writers, have discovered, rather late in the day, that Lord Alistair Graham, aged eighteen, is aboard the Euryalus—a micjshipmi te. X warned .Wellington girls, .about it before Alistair came ashore. They missed their chance. New, iYotic laundry girls do all tight, and the business isn’t entirely in the hands of the slit-eyed •yellow man. The girls earn "as much as twenty-live dollars a. week, anti men folk in the same employ much less ion an aveuagCH (Eight hours a day, V "Oh !. Go along !i ' ‘ There’s an old gentleman living not far from Dannevirke, who has bean thero, on thereabouts, for fortylive years. His son, who is in business in Wellington, recently - endeavoured t’o persuade him to visit Wellington. In' reply, he remarked : 6 ‘. New Zealand is good enough for me,” " Men ho manly ! .There ' was; a | poor little husband before the court, lately, suing his wife for mainten- I mice.. The lady, he said, had kept him at. home to. do the housework for six years, and had only given him 2s tid a week. And just because he spanked the eldest boy she gave him a black eye. Husband beaters shpuld really be severely dealt With. It is a shame (that poor, inoffensive men should be'" knocked about when they’re doing their l best to keep the house nice and tidy. The motor death grows apg.ee at Home, and chauffeurs are not hanged A swell ••morcher” recently killed a boy. He didn’t stop. The boy’s playmate, who saw him killed, became deranged, and died of fright. iVerdict : “Accident, No blame attachable to anyone.’” t Those up-to-date Southern weeklies don’t waste any time in getting to accidents, and all came out a day or two after the “Chanevs ” railj way smash with illustrated Supplements. The pictures showing the ■ I dead bodies of the victims still entangled in tile car are not, one .would ihinlk, cjuite in good taste. Little par that throws some light | on class privilege in England :— .** A J man was knocked down by a motor- I car near Otterburn, Northumber-1 land. Lady —, who, with two | friends, was riding in her car, were I very fortunately unhurt. The man I was killed. Ho was a pauper tramp, and was always looked on as_ a public nuisance.’’

Peculiar tiling that about the same time that Mr Seddon blamed the sob pol-teachers for not teaching children to respect their parents, the Archbishop of Canterbury was! blaming the British parent for the same thing. He didn’t say a word about school-teachers. These two. great men might correspond with’ each other, in order to decide •whether the parent ‘or the teacher is the right person to teach ‘children that respect which is lacking even' in "dear old England.” It gladdens one to know that colonial kiddies ( are at least not greater heathens I than; their British cousins,