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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9115, 7 April 1908, Page 5

In the case in which a Gisborne resident was charged with failing to exterminate blackberry, the information was dismissed, the Magistrate holding that the Lawton berry did not the designation contained in the Act, being a hybrid of the blackberry. There were some amusing scenes in connection with the ballot for sections in the Te Arai estate, recently acquired by the Government from Mr G. T. Randell Johnston. The Gisborne Times states when the applicants were being examined one raised a laugh by the earnestness with which he presented the evidences of his bona fides. Finally, as it still appeared to him that the members of the Board werefnot sufficiently impressed, and to make matters doubly sure, he leaned forward, and, showing a bank note crumbled up in his outstretched band, hoarsely whispered, “Perhaps this will help it through.” It only remains to be recorded that the offer of the bribe caused some mirth and brought the applicant no luck, for none of the black marbles fell to his share of the drawing. A peculiar case of somnambulism occurred at Geraldine last week. A young man employed on a threshing mill was sleeping over night in an upstairs bedroom in one of the local hotels, the mill being stationed close to the township, prepared to commence operations in the early morning. About 4 a.m. the mill whistle was blown. The young man referred to, on hearing the whistle in his sleep, sprang out of bed, threw up the bedroom window, and bundled out on to- the asphalt footpath, falling about 13 or 14 feet. As be fell, the young man came to his senses, and was able afterwards to get on bis feet and find his way back to his room by climbing the fire escape, when his groans attracted the attention of the proprietor, who immediately summoned medical aid. Strange to no hones were broken, and beyond a bad shakmg and severe 1 bruises, the somnambulist is none the worse for his adventure.

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