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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 4 January 1906, Page 1

Whilst signing his name rcoently in an hotel regis'er at Mou t Victoria, a popu'ar >esatfc in this Bine Mountains, New South Wales, a.. Wellington resident noted tho fol'owiflg en:ry made in tho ‘‘remarks’’ column of ihs book a few days previously : ‘Net 8p wonderful, attar all I Misi , Wanganui, New Zea’and (otherwise •Heaven). ” Ode of Wellington’s gentle zephyrs last week was responsible for much trouble and loss lo a bank e'erk. Ho was proceeding along one of the main Btieeta with a bundle of rntrs in his hand, when, by some plained means, the wind took possession of the notes.and scattered them broadcast Tbo crowd, with great agility, joined in the pursuit of the paper money, and when tbo hubbub waß all over the clerk found he was £4O to tbo bod. Subsequently a young man was arrested on a ohargo of having one of the missing nolos in his possession,

“Things are not too brisk in tho shipping lino here,” writes a Westport correspondent of tho Dunedin Srar. “ There is very litb'e demand for coal, and the Millerton mine hss sacked 130 men during tbe last two weeks. The Itubi Seddon dredge, which was such a frost to begin with, his been fitted up with new pumps, which cost £I9OO, and is now doing splendid work. The Harbour Board expect to have 80ft of water right up to tho wharf at no very distant date. This would bo a good port if it wero cot for red tape, but things ore changing for tho better ai new men get on tbe Harbour Board.”