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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 979, 27 August 1903, Page 4

Mr Kirlsbride’s Mutual Fire Insurance Bill has had remarkable success for a private member’s Bill, and on present appearances has quite a good chance of passing successfully through tho House of Bepresentatives. A man named Charles Elphick was found dead in Steele street, Newcastle, New South Wales, and later in the day a boy, 14 years of age, was charged with having caused his death. The accused is alleged to have knocked the man down with a bicycle on which he was riding. Notwithstanding the fact that nearly 13 000,000 bushels of foreign wheat, or its equivalent in flour, have been, brought forward for Commonwealth requirements, the breadstuffs markets are strong, and advancing. The Broken Hill Water Supply Company made a profit of £13,000 during the first six months of the present year. A young man named John Dawson was thrown from a horse at Duhbo,New South Wales, and killed instantaneously. Swine fever has broken out in the Cobar district, Now South Wales. The owner of one piggery lost 100 pigs within a week