The four-masted barque Swanhilda, which became notorious over the Butler crimes, is at present at Sydney. A Morton Mains (Otago) farmer lost a cow the other evening, the animal being choked by a ball of hair sticking in its throat while feeding. ' Bailway employees in Victoria are indignant because the train which recently conveyed the Premier to iNhill was preceded by a pilot engine. A facetious Wellington clergyman on a recent Sunday deprecated the system of “ wireless telegraphy” used by the choir ladies and some gentlemen of the congregation. Several Geelong (Victoria) merchants intend to make a claim against the Customs Department for illegally preventing work being carried out at their wharves on Eight Hours Day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 992, 11 September 1903, Page 4
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