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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 29 December 1902, Page 4

K bill of something under 10s has hitherto been the record for the colony. But now R. J.- Fames, one of the candidates at Napiei has beaten it with a. return of only is 3d. the cost of „ railway fare. 1 isiier, ever, won his seat, whereas Fames Was nearly 1500 votes behind the sue cessful candidate.-

It seems that all the inmates of a I Wellington board ing-.iouse nave struck as a protest against mi increase oi r-k.-’-kps. There was oiice a strike oi another kind in a Wellin Sf oli house—to be more correct, a 1 In this instance, the landlady took it into her head—mistarenly, as it happened that, two particular lodgers were responsible for a skit on iier bills of fare that had Iteen posted in the house ; so she made up her mind tiiat tlie disturbers oi idle peace oi her household should be cot rid of. Ac cordingly, they found themselves on a Sunday morning debarred from approach to tiie breavfasUtaple. then belongings bundled outside die door, and they had sorrowiully to depart and find other quarters at shoit notice It may not have been a strictly legal procedure, but she was a masterful asd determined eld .ui/i