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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 841, 16 March 1903, Page 3

A gentleman, olothed only in a shirt and who had been suffering from snakes, necessitating his imprisonment in a Wairarapa hospital, rushed through one of the Valley townships the other night, to escapo from murderers. Soma scores of citizens, armed with weapons ranging in deadliness from tinned fish to tomahawks, chased the sufferer. It was found that a man, armed with five Knives, a saw, and a reptilian host, had been camping under the bed of the gentleman in the hospital, hence his escape. An examination revealed the fact the murderous vagabond had disappeared, and gone back into the beer vault. —Prohibition order issued.

People who labored undered the delusion that New Zealand is a country where the people enjoy greater privileges than in most other countries, should wake up, and get some light from the Soeialist Party in this city. Perhaps, you read the little list of reforms this party expects its two candidates for the City Council to effect, should they be returned. They ere delicious. Also, logical. But we xurget: the party is revolutionary, not reformatory, and it •' means to abolish the foundation of all existing institutions.” There now, you have it in a nutshell,—Free Lance. There are ten blind physicians practising medicine in the United States.

Cruelty to children is obviously not a serious affair in Austria. A father who killed his child by ill-treatment was the other day punished by eight days’ arrest.

A Grand Assortment of Gent’s Ties in the Latest Styles, direct from the manufacturer. Best value in Gisborne,—C. ROSIE AND CO,

Public Works Office, Kaitaratahi, March 12th, 1903. FRESH TENDERS will be received at this Office till Noon on SATURDAY, March 21st, for Painting, &0., to Departmental Buildings, Gisborne. Plans, &c., at this Offioe, and at Post Office, Gisborne. No tender need necessarily be accepted

C. E. ARMSTRONG, Assistant Engineer.

FOR SALE* Quarter-acre, Haiti,' with 14-roomed House, known as “ Tiromoana ; suitable for Private Residence or Boarding-house. For full particulars, apply to— WYLLIE & MASON. NOTICE, CUSTOMERS will greatly oblige oy payintr, the small outstanding accounts due to CRAWFORD AND SON before the 31st MARCH inst, WM. F. CRAWFORD. March 11th, 1903. SPECIAL Attractions for ’Xmas season at “The Beehive.” Books, Stationery, Fanoy Goods, Toys. Prices to suit all. TOM was never known to be late for his work? If you wish to know the reason, why just enquire from W. S. Collins, watchmaker and jeweller, Gladstone road.