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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1806, 12 July 1906, Page 4

Cable advice has boon received by Mr Hornsby, M.H.R. for Wairarapa, of the death of his mother at Hobart, in her 80th year. As a child, deceased went through all the stirring events of early Tasmanian history. Tho Premior (Mr Hall-Jonos) has advised Mr Arnold, M,HE„ that he hopes to visit Otago somo time next week, when another section of the Otago Central railway will probably be officially opened. Out of 2500 telephono subscribers in Wellington, 000 have been placed on the motallic circuit. Every week the number of lines cabled is increasing, says the superintendent (Mr Logan). The Department is getting on with the w T ork as fast as it can, and expects that the installation will be completed in about a year. Then the disagreeableness of the electric trams’ whirr, and the exasperating “ contact ” will, it is stated, worry telephones no more.

Ton fever patients were brought from Rawhiti on Friday to the ternporary hospital near Russell. One of the patients, a young married daughter of Mrs Parks, died on Saturday afternoon. Tho body was conveyed to Rawhiti by the s.s. Ida. Tho husband of tho decoased is a patient at the hospital. Much sympathy is expressed for the mother of the deceased, who has lost threo children. She appears to be mentally affected through grief, and resisted the removal to the extent of smashing one of the boats with an axe. The poor woman also chased the chairman of the County Council with the weapon. The Agricultural Department has written to the various agricultural and pastoral associations and farmers’ clubs in the colony, asking for their opinions as to the advisability of allowing Australian and Chinese quail to be brought into the country. The Minister for Agriculture has been iuformed that quail consume young grass, and he does not care to sanction fresh importations of them without giving tho farming community an opportunity of expressing its opinion The Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association has decided to approve the proposod importation.