- Any New South Wales M.P. serving in a Ministry for four years (not necessarily continuously) is entitled to a free railway pass for life. The great charm of the Queen of Madagascar is said to be her unconven tionality; She chews tobacco, drinks champagne, uses palm oil on her hair, wears 5000dols worth of costumes, at the same time going barefooted, and is a member of the orthodox Congrega tional Church. It is assumed, says an exchange, by some of the Ministerial papers that had Mr T. E. Taylor stood out of the Christchurch contest that the votes re corded for him would have been cast for Mr R. M. Taylor. This is obviously a fallacy, for nothing is more certain to those who take the trouble to inquire or who read the history of prohibition in the colony, that the Government could not have secured the prohibition vote. The Government and prohibi tion are opposed to each other, and nothing was done by the Government before the election to change that opposition into support. It is unneces ary to say that we are not prohibition ists, but we believe the Government would have got along better with that organisation had they plainly stated their intentions with regard to liquor legislation, instead" of attempting to induce prohibitionists to believe that they were favourable to certain changes in our licensing legislation, when cir cumstances and facts pointed indubit ably to the conclusion that they were not. •Be sure your sins shall find you out ' is as safe a proverb to pin one's faith to at the present time as it was in the earlier stages of the world's history. 