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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 160, 18 July 1901, Page 1

The young man Woodard was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and ordered to pay D 3 18s, costs of prosecution, for attempting to commit suicide at Taihape last month.

A sensation has been caused at Queanbeyan (N.SAV.) by the return to that town of a young man named Angus Cameron, who was believed to have been lost in the bush twelve years ago. It appears that Cameron left the town suddenly for reasons of his own, leaving his parents in ignorance of his movements. His father grieved greatly for his son, and it is believed that this led to the father’s death.

The Mangaweka correspondent of the Wairarapa Times telegraphs:— The two ,new hotels were opened at Taihape on Monday, and as a result the drunken brawls and street fights were something disgraceful. As oarly as ten o’clock in the morning fighting took place in the public thoroughfare. Unless the Police Department nip this sort of thing in the bud, matters will be very seriGua when pay day comes round,

A dairy conference, and dairy exhibition, is to be held at Palmerston North, from 23rd to 26th July, 1901. The exhibition will comprise butter, cheese, dairy factory and dairy farming appliances, accessories and requirments. The conference, in addition to the Government Dairy Staff, will be attended by experts, managers of dairy and butter factories, and also by dairy farmers, from various parts of thg Island,