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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2089, 15 January 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Sydney doctor expresses indignation at llio continued importation of consumptives. “As long as these people have sufficient means to show that they are not likely to become a charge upon the community, there is no i.iw to prevent their admission; but it is a scandal that they are allowed to come here and mix indiscriminately with the population. With our present limited knowledge of phthisis, the authorities should display a little solicitude for the welfare, or at- least the safety, of the public. I am speaking from personal observation. Many, consumptives are being brought to this country. Some of them arc almost at death’s door before they land.-' Each patient living with the people establishes a new centre of inflection, and nullifies 'any combative efforts made locally. Tho law should be amended forthwith.” The story of a sudden hope and a more sudden disappointment, is told by tho Newcastle “Herald.” An amateur gardener, says the paper, on the North Shore (Sydney) line was digging in his garden recently, when lie was surprised and gratified to find a shilling-—then a two-sliilling piece, then a little later, a sixpence, several coppers, and a half-crown piece. Needless to say, lie began to dig with renewed energy in the hope of tuning up a feiv sovereigns, and soon the perspiration was standing in beads on his brow. He straightened his talk at last, with a. feeble groan of pain and in the same instant he felt something sliding down his leg. In an moment he had grasped tho truth there, was a Hole in his trousers’ pocket, and he was sinking his own capital as fast- as ho dug it up!