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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 999, 18 September 1903, Page 4

"While diving at Coogee, New South Wales, a young man named David Benjamin, of Weston road, Balmain, struck his head on the rocks, and sustained a fractured skull. A resident of Nelson, who has hitherto been in poor circumstances, received word by a recent San Francisco mail that he had come into a fortune of £6OOO. Mr P. J. Parfitt, who has been connected with the Bank of New Zealand in this colony for the past 38 years, will retire on a pension at the end of the present month. The number of fever patients now in the Wellington Hospital, thirteen, is the lowest sinco June, 1902. A man who was fined os for drunkenness at Parramatta, Sydney, was found dead in his cell nest morning. Two men bailed up the landlady of a hotel near Bendigo, Victoria. The plucky woman picked up a gun and presented it at the men, who made off with great despatch. Sundowners and swaggers are now the only men in the colonies who have not established a union,