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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1496, 3 July 1905, Page 3

Last week’s gazette contains a by law, prohibiting the carriage of liquor on the Auckland railways to any station in the King Country.

ft! Wellington oorresroiSijjdenb writes: Tne weather has been indescribably bait!. Storms of wind aijd rain have heen almost continuous, culminating in frightful fury on: Friday, evening, when considerable damage Was done -to the. wires, Two- of the bulge telegraph poles pm Lambton. qiuiy, opposite the Hotel Cecily snapned at three or four o’clock on Saturday morning, and fell, the wares and cables resting, a net-work ‘ of confusion, on hive tramway cabjtes, that testified htaively, by their resisting •the Strain, to the way tney were put u'p. Had this occurred at any other time, even an hour .or two earlier, •when the Star Boating Club Ball folk Were 'going home, there might hava been loss of life, hut at the time the holes fell there ‘ was no traffic at all. The telephone is anything hut an Unmixcd blessing at .these times. Many subscribers were, of course, fru* 3 still more unfortunate were those whose wires were in contact, and who were fated to listen to porpetuar ringing with no end or. object. Heady, •when one has to go down two flights or stairs to find' a desperate weman is rijjgiP'S m iier grocer-