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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1245, 12 January 1883, Page 2

The Rev. Mr Hamilton, who arrived last Sunday, is now acting as the Incumbent of the Parish. We hope that Gisborne Gisborne clothiers will be cautious when securing their goods, as from an exchange we learn that a gentleman died recently at Warsaw, in agony, after a few days’ illness, and when his body was examined it was found to be covered with brown stripes—the effect of perspiration upon a striped flannel shirt which he had been wearing. The dye with which the shirt was colored proved to be apotent vegetable poison two grains of which administered to a dog caused his death within an hour. We were shown this morning, a Howard patent string sheaf binder, recently imported by Messrs A. Graham and Co., from Napier. It was in Mr Humphreys’s yard, and had been undergoing certain necessary alterations. The machine cuts down wheat which is afterwards put up in sheaves and bound in the most secure manner, although the working is extremely simple. It was taken to Messrs Clarke and Dobie’s station to-day, and a trial is to be made with it to-morrow. We would be glad to see a few more in the Bay, as it would give proof that we were not destitute of enterprise.