One advantage of the railway to the Thames will be oheap milk. The Puriri Co, operative Dairy, 63 Pollen street, are pre pared to supply milk all the year round at 3d per quart delivered. —[Advt ]

Saya the Auckland Observer:—" The political surprise of the week has been the application lor leave of absence made to th« Board of Education by Mr Arthur Edwards, schoolmaster at Huntly. Arthur has, it appears, experienced a ' call.' It is "ot a spiritual call—nor yet a call from the Lord—and does not involve work in the vineyard It is, if we must confess it, a call from Dick Seddon. His Royal Highness King Riohard feels that the Libaral Party wants reorganising, and he has called Mr Edwards from his school duties at Huntly to reorganise it, and Mr Edwards wants leave of absence, that hfe may put the Libeial Party on its legs again. But Arthur was surely a very sanguine young man when he approached a body like tha Auckland Board of Education, numbering amongst its members such pillars of the National Association as Richard Hobbs and Robert Fa'rell, with such a cool application as this. Needless to Bay, they didn't grant the leave of absence. But they met an alternative letter from v*r Edwards, tendering his resignation, half-way by accepting the resignation with nary a word of thanks for past service, and not a singßgood wish that Mr Edwards would snooeed in his mission of reorganising the presumably demoralised LibwdPartj,"

The raeohorse Stockman, who has b-en taking part in the Takapui a Jockey Club's Summer Meetine, was brought back to the rhames by the Wakatere to-day.
