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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 119, 30 May 1901, Page 3

LADIES! —If you want a Neat, Serviceable, <3ood Quality Dress Stuff at a Eeasonable Price, go to C. ROSIE & Co. Choice Assortment Imported Direct and Colonial Manufacture. The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Bill comes into operation on June 7. Wednesday, July 17, has been gazetted a public holiday for the celebration of Arbor Day. Two powerful locomotives have been purchased by the Manawatu Railway Company in America. Tho licensee of the Rutland "Hotel, Wanganui, was fined i£lo and £2. costs, for permitting drunkenness in his hotel. A final dividend of a little over Is pershare will be paid to the defunct Colonial Bank shareholders within the next six weeks. The late Hon. Thomas Loader, of Victoria, left real estate valued at £12,025, and personal estate valued at £4134 to his widow. A movement is on foot in Victoria amongst dairy- farmers for improving the quality of butter. In connection with a school in theTaranaki district, the teacher, who is a widower, has only a small kitchen and one bedroom for the accommodation of himself and six children. A huge bullock was killed at the Invercargill abattoir last week. The animal was grown at Five Rivers, aud the carcase, when dressed and cut up ready for the shop, weighed 1,4921 b. A powerful dredge has been constructed for the Queensland Government, w-hich will be capable of executing five thousand cubic yards of sand within one hour. The actual result was a channel over a thousand feet long, 34ft wide, and 6ft. deep, giving 28ft of water where there was only a depth of 17ft before. The provisioning of the military at Melbourne during the celebration, is regarded as the most expensive task of its kind yet undertaken in Australia.

BUSHFALLING. VENDEES required for Falling 350 Acres of Bush, in three sections, at Motokio. Tenders close JUNE 5. Specifications to be seen at Williams and Kettle’s, or on Station. J. H. GOULDSMITH^ Bedstone’s Whatatutu Coach leaves Gisborne on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at noon, returning from Whatatutu on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 8 a.m.—Advt. ENNESSY'S _for Depejwaeles,