NEWS CLIPPINGS

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 510, 25 August 1902, Page 3

NEWS CLIPPINGS

At Wilcannin, New South Wales, chaff is being Bold at £ls a ton, and Hour at £2 a *Thero were 119 illegitimate births in Sydney last month, equal to 11 per cent, of tho total birth list. Thoro aro at the present time nine scarier fever patients accommodated at tho plague hospital at Borhamporc, Weilington. It i 3 said (states tho Hawera Star) that tho two engines which were used on tho Toko railway hnvo been in uso in New Zealand fsr 34 yoars. Tho contractor for meat for tho hospital at Dubbo, Now South Wales, has thrown up his contract, meat in the town having gone up from 3d to 8d per IB during tho season. Tho vestry of St Matthew’s, Prahran, Victoria, has determined to send out a missionary under the direction of the Church Missionary Association, entirely at thoir own cost. Fivo competitive dosigns (four from within tho colony and one from Sydney) havo been received for tho Timaru public abattoirs. Tho cost of tho work will bo about TSOOO. , Tho littlo daughter of a farrnor narnod S. Davios, at Pyramid Hill, Now South Wales, blow a portion of her head oil while handling the muzzlo of a loaded U » Tho Mayor of the city is expected to nresido over anything from a Sundayschool picnic to a dog fight,” said a trades councillor at Wolliogton. At Perth, West Australia, a returned trooper shot himself in tho head with a revolver, becauso he had been disappointed anonymous contributions of ill each have been received by the Colonial Treasurer as " conscience money. With tbo second dhe was a slip of paper endorsed: "Unpaid duty, Last instalment.”