Parents would do well to take precautions <hat their children are not attacked by the malignant fever which is now so prevalent in Gisborne. The doctors state it is most dangerous, and although a new type of disease in Poverty Bay is one which should be at once treated, the best application being a horsewhip. It is styled ‘‘ The ground and lofty tunibling and contortion fever. Yesterday afternoon in the ring remaining after the circus season had ceased, might have been seen a number of boys who were imitating the witticisms of Max Rinkle, the contortions of Bartolo, and the tumbling of the auiiip&ny.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1150, 18 September 1882, Page 2
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104Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1150, 18 September 1882, Page 2
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