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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1596, 28 October 1905, Page 1

. A venturesome woman tourist, who not long ago, travelled; down the wpt: •West Coast of AJ aoriland from Hoki-' tika to the beautiful (Franz Josef glacier, has some quaint tales to tell of the things that she heard and the sights she saw in” 1 that, over-moist region, where the children, it is popularly alleged; 'are 'bom- web-footed.; Typical of the • iqueer . things of “ The Coast,” was a bush-hut at the mouth of the Kallery Gorge, near the foot Of the Franz Josef iceflow. The hogbacked roof of the picturesque old whare, owned by an equally picturesque and dilapidated gold-fossioker, had been covered with sods and turfy presumably to make it cool in summer and i ; warm; in winter, just as ‘ the Uriwerat Maoris heap • up, the. earth; around their bark-roofed dwellings The ancient hoyel was overgrown with long grass, and on / the top the. proprietor had his little kitchen garden. The old man was found squatting on the roofy' putting in some strawberry plants for the summer ! Last season, he said, he had a fine; crop of peas in the same plaoe.— Bulletin.

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NEW GOODS —A new..shipment of Ladies’,Boots and Shoes; Loui heels ; a large assortment to choose from.' Also, in children’s wear' .sandals, shoes in red, white, blue,,, tan, and black.— E. Rosie’s boot shop, " . .. ,