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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 222, 26 September 1901, Page 3

The Broken Hill police raided an alleged gambling don in Argent-street North the other night, and arrested ‘25 persons. The office of the Mount Usher gold mine. Rockhampton, was dynamited the other night, and the manager and his son were blown out of bed. Since the coining into operation on June 1, 1899. of the Divorce Act, 1898, SI decrees for dissolution of marriage have been granted in 'Wellington. The Government offices throughout the colony will be closed on Wednesday, Jctober 9 (Labour Day). The mortality of Sydney for last month was 21 per cent, in excess of the average. A man named William Wallace died at Surrey Hills, Sydney, after taking an anti-pyrinc powder. An accident happened to a boy named Arthur Johnston: at Waihi school, on Monday. While in the playground, another boy accidentally trod on Johnston's foot, and, in trying to step back, Johnston fell over, breaking his leg above the knee. We have been shown by Mr Hookey, the Gisborne manager of Messrs Archibald Clark and Sons, Auckland, a sample shirt which been invented and patented by Mr Blythe, of Blythe and Co. It is just one of those simple, obvious ideas, once they are hit upon that makes people ask themselves why in the world did they not think of it. Simply stated, as the loose collar is to the shirt, so is the cuff. This is attained by makiDg the cuff with some four or five inches of calico attached to it, button on to the sleeve, which is that much shorter. Thus a shirt may he worn day after day by a suitable adjustment of tie and scarf. The life of the shirt is much prolonged, and when the cuff is worn and frayed it is simply discarded as a collar would be in similar circumstances. The advantages to professional and business men is very great, and to tourists or travellers inertimable, as with three shirts and a dozen cuffs, occupying less space than three shirts do ordinarily (as the cuffs lie flat), a man may travel the world over, so long as he keeps within reasonable reach of the laundry. As the cuffs are sold separately, it becomes an easy matter to chop off old cuffs and adapt the shirt to them. Mr Hookey informs us that they are now on the market throughout New Zealand, and may be purchased from or ordered through any outfitter or draper in the colony, and further that they have taken on and are likely to prove a great success,

The work of installing the Westinghouse brake on the express trains between Longburn and New Plymouth is being pushed on, in order that the system may be brought into operation on the Ist of November. The recent flood in the Buffer River was the largest since the “ Penarth flood” of October of last year. As showing the forward state of the harbor works, it should be mentioned that the scour was sufficiently great to drive the shoaled portion out a distance of 2000 ft. j