The West Australians are going in for loans; so did we at one time (says the North Queensland Regiiter), and we never recognised this error of bur ways until our credit was. stopped. In our wildest flights, however, we never dreamed of supplying water to a thirsty mining community two hundred miles away at 3s 6d per thousand gallons. It is one of the most daring experiments ever tried under a democratic constitution, to make mouey out of a thirsty and unwashed population. To expect people to pay forty pence Jor a tank of water is simple madness. In South Australia, or New Zealand, a bona-fide voter could get rum, or Old Tom, in . solution, laid on the premises at about the same rate.
AUCKLAND NEWS.
[BY TELEGRAPH.]

Aucxland, last night. News has been received by the San Francisco mal to-day that there is every, possibility of. the Leap Year special claim, Karangahake, being floated at Home, but an extension of time is required owing to the capital istic public being absent from the city earlier in the season than usual.
The Mining Standard devotes a ■leading article to-day re Mr Wdwin Edwards' candidature for the Ohine muri seat

Mr George Loram will continue to carry on business at the Criterion Hotel, Paeroa.
M AGAZINE-WAITEKAURJ.
