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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 122, 3 June 1901, Page 3

The Natives of Motuiti intend to send to Wellington, on tho occasion of the Royal visit, a toi-toi whare 10ft in length. The roof and walls will be lined with reeds fastened in the Maori style.

" Tho statement made that the flow of 700 gallons per minute from an artesian well recently sunk in Wanganui is a record for the colony is disputed by a resident of Hastings, who says that in 1895 he sank a well from which a flow of 950 gallons a minute has been obtained.

The proposal to give many schoolboys freo passages to tho Ducal festivities at Christchurch raises tho question, What have the girls done that they should be excluded ?

A young man named Josoph Dowling died in,the Melbourne Hospital from injuries received by being run into by a cyclist. On May 18 Mrs Kelly, of Williamstown, Melbourne, died 10 days after the nows of Captain Kelly’s death, from wounds, in the Transvaal. A young man named Noonan, who was engaged in sinking a well at Pittsworth, Queensland, was killed through a bucket falling on him. Tho death has occurred in Melbourne of the Hon. Patrick Perkins, for many years interested in gold mining in Victoria and Queensland, and founder of Perkins’ Brewery, Brisbane. John Andrews, a miner, at Jumbunna Colliery, was seriously orushed between a truck and a tunnel engine, drawing trucks. It was stopped just in time to prevent instant death. There is a great dearth of fat sheep in Canterbury just now. It is likely that the butcher will have to compete with the export buyers for wethers this winter oven to a greater extent than last year. A telegram from Benalla, Victoria, says:. —A rabbitter brought into town a rabbit trapped by him, which exhibits a curious froak of nature. Tho rodent, which is unusually large, has three eyes, two of which are in the proper place, while the third is on the top of the head, nearly between the ears. The animal also possessed two tails, one above the other. A schoolboy named Joseph Foster was admitted to the Balmain (N.SVV.) Hospital on May 16, suffering from a serious fracture of the ankle, caused by his foot having become caught in the wheel of a cart into which he was climbing. “■When fruit trees—especially citrus trees —have been bitten off close to the stock by any animal, they become poisoned, and die; they may live for as long as 12 months, but will never do any good,” said a fruitgrower of 25-years’ experience at the Parramatta District Court recently. Mr Haning, late first officer of the Gothic, has been promoted to the position of chief officer of the new White Star

liner Suevic, and Mr Dean, formerly second of the Gothic, has been promoted to Mr Haning’s old position. Messrs Freeman and Hill, both of the steamer Delphic have been appointed second and third respectively of the Gothic, Mr Watkins (late of tho West India Boyal Mail line) being appointed fourth. Mr Jackson (late third of the Gothic) has been appointed second of the Delphic, aud Mr Thomas (late fourth of the Gothic) has been promoted to third of the Delphic. It isn’t often that I cater for| my clerical friends, but I came across a tasty titbit the other day which I cannot refrain from reproducing, and which I hope they’ll enjoy as much as I did myself when I first perused it. It’s about a “gathering of the elans”—in other words “ the gentlemen of the cloth” which recently took place in Cottonopolis, and which was attended by Dr Watson, and his assistant at Sefton Park, Liverpool. A short story was told by eaoh present, but when it came to the assistant's turn he appeared unwilling to unburden his soul, and, when pressed for the reason, declared that it concerned the doctor. This was sufficient, and lan Maclaren, insisting on hearing the story concerning himself, tho young man proceeded as follows: —“ I had a dream, and was told that if I wished to go to heaven I must go up a certain flight of stairs and chalk my sins on each step I went up. I did so, and as I went up found that the farther I went the more chalk I wanted. As I con-

tinued to go up I saw someone coming down, and discovered at last that it was the doctor himself. So I said, ‘Doctor, man, you are going the wrong way. You are going down instead of up. For whatareyougoingdown?’ And the doctor answered in a most lugubrious manner, ‘ More chalk!' ”

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