Swarms of rabbits recently infested the Springfield tank, Cobar. Asa resuit of the use of arsenic between 40,000 and 50,000 of them were killed. It is esteemed that arsenic-poisoned water has been the cause of the de» struction of millions of rabbits in the .Cobar district in the last two months. A young man named Percy Cham* berlain, while escorting a young lady friend home at Ballarat, Victoria, was surrounded by a gang of larrikins, | who used insulting language. Several j endeavored to assault him, and in defending himself he thrust a knife into the arm of a youth named Herbert James Beece. An ugly wound was inflicted, eloso to the main artery, and Beece was taken to the Hospital. He was weak from loss of blood, and was admitted in a serious condition.
U B A tl B A CHURCH T FETE Will bo held at Waerenga-a-hika on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22. GISBORNE SECTION. Gisborne, January 25, 1906. ON SATURDAY, January 27tb, ihe train usually leaving Wiiborne at 9.30 p.m., and Te Karaka 10 45 p.m., will run as under: p m.- p mGisborne, dp. 10.30 Te Karaka, dp. 11 45 a.m. Te Karaka, art. 11.35 G’sborne, arr. 12,50 BX ORDER,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19060126.2.42.3
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1658, 26 January 1906, Page 3
Word Count
201Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1658, 26 January 1906, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in