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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 973, 20 August 1903, Page 4

Whitebait have already made their appearance in the Grey river. At Melbourne four stevedores’ laborers have been fined £2O to £5 for stealing cargo from ships on which they were employed. The atmosphere was so clear at Napier one day recently, that Portland Island was plainly visible from the Marine Parade, What would be a fitting hereafter for a farmer named William Dougall of Mount Franklin, Victoria ? He died recently, leaving an estate valued at £17,788, of which he bequeathed only £BO a year to his widow.

A hitter feeling lias been created in Tasmania by the recent dismissal of Mr Long, a Labor member for Parliament, from the North Lycll Mine. At Rozeile, Sydney, a wire-worker named William Walsh, stabbed Louie Leask in the head, and afterwards

gave himself up to the police, woman is in a serious condition

The steamer Bullara, prior to arriving at Broome, West Australia, was damaged through scraping a reef in Fenolan Passage. Four thousand tons of raw sugar were brought ti? Auckland by the steamer Breconshire.

E. J. Tidbit, an insurance agent, died suddenly at the Custom-house at Sydney, .while there on business. At the first interment at Cambridge’s (Eng.J new cemetery the body of a child named 'Whitmore was borne to the grave by six young ladies. It is officially announced that Count Charles Lalaing has been appointed Belgian Minister in London in succession to the late Baron Whettnall.

At Scotstown, Glasgow, a large motor factory, conducted on the American method, will be opened shortly. Rather than pay 91-d for a lunch, which he considers to be only worth 7jd, an Italian is having a lawsuit with a Parisian eating-house proprietor. Alaskan Indians allege that up the Porcupine River, 1500 miles from Port Yukon, there are two petrified ships lyiDg stranded in the mountains.