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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1031, 26 October 1903, Page 3

A woman named Helen Irvine died in Sydney Hospital recently from an overoso of poison. A man found dead on the roadside at Essendon, Melbourne, last week, is supposed to have been killed by an inseet bite. Ho wa3 drunk and lay down on the roadside, and it

is supposed that a poisonous inseet crawled into hi 3 mouth and stung him. Death was caused by suffocation, through tho rapid swelling of the glottis.

Now that rabbits are disappearing (says tho Tapanui Courier) thero is a great outcry for destroying stoats and weasles. Tbe vermin have, however, come to stay —like tho rabbits —and will never be got rid of as long as there is any food (fur, feather, or lamb) to eat. Poultry-keepers will need to wire-net their runs very closely in future, as when rabbits get scarce stoats and weasels aro active poachers.

This spring is probably without parallel in the history of Brnco so far as sunshine is concerned (says the Bruce Herald). For the last six or seven weeks practically no rain has fallen, and everywhere in tho district peoplo are orying out for wet woather. Owing to scarcity of rain, grass and crops are coming on slowly, and where sheep have been on turnip 3 tho pad* floska aso filled with duet.