NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 27 December 1902, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS.

Tho s.s. Zoalandia, from Sydney, brought trauspipmonts from tho following steamers : —Paroo, from Adelaide ; Barwon, from Melbourne ; Hinda, from Calcutta ; Miowera, from Vancouver; tralien, from China ; Elbing, Barbarossa, Himalaya, and Ville de la Ciotat, from the Continent.

Fiendish anarchists, trying to wreak vengeance on account of Swiss antianarchist legislation, placed and fired a bomb. The only result apparently was to rudely dislodge an honest Englishman from his bed.

Who does not prefer a holiday to remaining behind to pile on taxation ? The Victorian Government is in dire need of the revenue from the proposed increased probate duties, but the Legislative Council broke up for the holidays and postponed the proposed new taxation.

It is understood that the Cabinet has decided to proceed no further with the trunk line from Seddon in the South Island until the question of the acquisition of the Flaxbourne Estate has been settled. Further negotiations are to be opened with the owners of the estate. A lad named Ernest lhilcraft. whilst working on the s.s. Talune at Wellington,'slipped on tiie deck, and his body came in contact with some sulphuric acid, which iiad spilled front a iar. He was badly burned, and was sent to the hospital.

A young man named John Blundell, employed ~at Ellis and Cons sawmills, at Wickham. New South Wales, was killed by a portion of a crane, which had collapsed, falling n. him. The iatalitv occurred while some timber was being lifted to be taken into the saw pits.

While/ sinking a well on Mr Levies property at Paengaroa, a carved potiika. or whipping top, was found in the drift sand at a depth of twentyfour feet. Paengaroa is a plain about eight milas long, and must have been a "lake or river bed at the time the pataka was deposited,