NEWS ITEMS

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS

Mildura raisins are being tried in the British navy. The hospital at St. George, Queensland, has been closed for want of funds. Caterpillars are destroying the potato crops in the Guyra district, New South Wales.

Victorian teachers have strongly protested agaiost the special representation of the public service. A young man at Ararat, New South Wales, lost his ami through blood poisoning, caused by a splinter. A lad named Clifford G.G. Grorno has died in Woolloomoloo, Sydney, from, it is supposed, oating a tainted fish. While bathing with a number of others at Wilcannia, New South Wales, a lad named Joseph Lawson was drowned. A child carried out in the breakers at Yarnba, Now South Wales, was, after five hours’ unconsciousness, restored to life.

A 14-year old girl named Louisa Pulley has died at Maitland Hospital, New South Wales, from burns sustained while attending a fire during washing. Only a small amount of wheat was sown in tho Stroud district, New South Walos, last season, which it is estimated will average 25 busbols to the acre. Recently Mr Hector McKenzie, a brother of the Mayor of Young, fell out of a window at the Australia Hotel, in Sydney, and died a few hours later from injuries received.

Over 800 applications for war medals have been received at the Melbourne barracks from Victorians who served in various South African irregular corps during the war. The Melbourne shipping houses consider the abolition of wharfage drawbacks will give Sydney a great advantage over Melbourne. The Chamber of Commerce is expected to strongly oppose them. The Queensland Stato Treasurer has informed a deputation of the licensed victuallers that he will consult the Cabinet on the question of deducting the amounts paid for goodwill when arriving at the income tax.

The superintendent of the West Australian Labor Bureau, in his annual report for 1902, says that the applications for workers totalled 523, applicants for work 4694, an increase of 2044 compared with the previous year. At Melbourne a man was robbing crockery on the Australian wharf, when a constable gave chase. The man jumped into the Yarra and was drownad. Deceased was a Jamaican cook on a vessel in port.