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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 517, 13 September 1902, Page 3

A case of stock dying from absorption of lead in liver and kidney tissues, through the animal licking red-paint from a newlypainted bouse, has come under the notice of the Agricultural Department. The linseed-oil used in the paint was the lure which brought the cows to grief. Words on a hoarding, stuck up over a Sydney house to celebrato the Coronation : “ God Savo the King, God bless the Queen, God help the ratpayers.”—Free Lance. America has journalists who do nothing but write headings for newspapers, at high rates. The man must have been well paid who wrote the heading for a recent Yankee article, “ Advaneo New Zealand ! 1 The Land that Leads the World !1 ” A horrid contemporary, in quoting those head lines, gets in some bilious satiro with the words, c Whoro to ? ” A suggestion lias been made in Heilington to revive the New Zealand Natives’ Association. The mauler bakers of Gore and iWaiaura have raised the price of bread to 7d cash ami Sd hooked. For exposing sheep affected with lice a Carterton settler named Monckton 'has been fined £5 and costs. A return shows that ot lGb3 licenses issued to hawkers in New South Wales, 7-17 are held ,by persons who have not liseu natut'alisedj