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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1402, 13 March 1905, Page 3

X m & of course it is the possibility of olectrio powor which has suggested light linos as moans of opening up tho country, and os wo boliovo tha brsak-of-gauge difficulty can bo overcome wa cxpoct to find the Hon. W. Hall-Jones sympathetic in the matter. What is now needed iB that the people of Wairoa and Napier should boatir themselves to further tho agitation. Wo do not think the local railway league has yet boon dissolved, and if wo are correot in our surmise it should bo agaiQ oalhd together in suppott of Gisborne efforts on o'jr behalf. —Wairoa Guardian. The incident is recorded as ovideooo fia g\e _/value sometimes placed upon a lour /whose performances have DOt attracted touch . attention : A Hastings,sffortsman was commissioned 10 parohase a berrso whose total winnings, all on back events, amounted to only £9O. He telegraphed to the . owner asking the price, and .received a'reply; to the effect that IfiOOgs would be accepted. The would be .purchaser offered IOOOg.s, but when tho owners 'were informed of the 'offer they intimated their firm intention of sticking to th i figure they had originally quotod, and not aco-.ptiug a penny 1e60..