“ Bicycles have closed up more than onebig coach-building factory in America,” an employer told the Conciliation Board at Christchurch. He also stated that cycling had interfered rath the trade in Canterbury more than in any other part of the colony—probably owing to Canterbury’s excellent roads. A telegram through Laffan’s Agency from Paris, dated 20th April, says:—Mr Lockhart Agnew, who has been in Paris, has now confirmed the statement that Mr Pierpont Morgan has bought the celebrated portrait by Gainsborough of the Duchess of Devonshire which was stolen in 1876, for .£OO,OOO. Ked Kelly in bis suit of mail, Was proof against all lead, And how he laughed when all did fail, To lodge it in his head. Then let us all be on our guard, While long life we assure, For coughs and colds have some regard, Take Wooes’ Great Pesterjii.ni Curb,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 129, 11 June 1901, Page 4
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142Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 129, 11 June 1901, Page 4
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