— Wairoa Guardian "As to the Jubilee honors, the least said about them the better," says James Payn in the Illustrated London News, " since, with the exception of half a dozen who have had a share of them, no one has ever before heard the gentlemen's names. But what is expressed on every side is contempt for the crass stupidity or ignorance that on such an occasion should have left Rudyard Kipling without recognition. He is the first man who lias introduced to us our Indian fellow subjects, he lias taught us more of the great ness of our colonies than any other writer, and he has writton the finest patriotic song — "The Flag of England". — in the language. He is, however, only a literary person." A new apparatus for expediting and facilitating voting at Parliamentary and municipal elections lias been invented and exhibited at Norwich. The ballot papers are printed on stout cards, circular in shape. When the card is handed to the voter, he enters a screened-oft' apartment, whore ho sees a row of small boxes fixed on a frame, each box bearing the name and number of the candidate it represents, and, if thought advisable, his party colors. On the top of each box is a slot, with a directing label. The voter, wilhont making any mark on bis ballot paper, places it in the slot of the box representing the candidate for whom he desires to vote. It seems that Mr Kruger, having furnished the Transvaal artillery and volunteers with gorgeous uniforms, has now provided himself with an Imperial escort. Whene'er he takes his drives abroad he is now preceded, fol lowed, and flanked by armed and mounted men ; and what used to be a simple carriage containing a simple Dopper in a simple suit of rusty black has become a procession suggestive rather of Berlin than of Pretoria. Why these precautions should have been adopted docs not appear. Perhaps in his old age Oom Paul is acquiring a love for pretty things. Perhaps conscience doth make a coward of him ; or perhaps he has hearkened unto the council of Irs German advisors. 