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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 645, 11 August 1891, Page 3

The Waipawa Mail is funny at the expense of the County Council in that district because the expedient of scraping mud off the roads has been adopted. It may interest the Mail to know that the same expedient has long been found to work very satisfactorily in Gisborne. The Melbourne Age of July 13, has a leading article reviewing the report of the Public Trust Commission of New Zealand, which concludes as follows “As the Prime Minister of the day seems to have joined his underlings in turning the Trust Office to private account, are we not ustified lin believing that had there not been a change of Government the Commission, which has made so trenchant an investigation into this mass of rottenness, would never have been called into exist, ence The great agnostic S;r Robert Stout writes in reference to attacks made on the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse :—“ Mr Pearse may give us an impulse, and wake an enthusiasm sufficient to enable us to do our duty. For this he deserves our thanks, and not the carping criticism of those who do not seem to understand either him or his mission. His theology we may decline to receive, whilst we admire his aims for the uplifting of his fellows. It is not necessary for ma to say I do not accept the creeds of his church, but Ido like his deeds. I also admire hie personality and power, and ao long as the Methodist Church producer such men it is playing a part in the world for man’s benefit; and they are narrow men and bigots who cannot welcome the good in any oommunion, by whatever name such may be called.”