GORE NEWS NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 18

GORE NEWS NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

GORE, May 10.

The population of the Borough of Gore as show n by the census of the other day is 3040, an increase of 6:6 on the figures of 1901, when the population was 2354. and of 1008 on those of 1896. The population has i increased during the past five- yeiirs by 656, as compared to 322 ou the previous five years. The figures do not give the actual extent to which the population has in- ' creased, as a great growth has taken place 1 just outside the borough boundaries. Were 'these portion's added the population would probably be near 3500. , To-morrow Mr Maearthy, S.M., will hear the charge- against Hanley, :e«see of the Piovincial bcarding-house. of keeping liquor for sale. The charge is the outcome of the recent raid en the premises. As a consequence of correspondence that has passed between the jMataura- Borough Council and the Mines Department, Mr F A. Gordon, of '-hat department, will visit the locality to-day and confer with the council and representatives of .- the dredging industry .so as to arrive at the ; headings requireJ for legislation to place ! the matter on a proper footmg. The recent litigatio-i left tho council in the posjtion of custodians of the tad race and depri?«f it of its sources of revenue.

When wintry tears my eyes o'erflow Tn painful sympathy with my nose, I rest my heavy head and sigh Fov some relief, or I shall die. The ha-king cough, the hard-drawn breath, Can only mean approaching death, But no, the remedy, Life's Renewer, 1= found in Woods' Gseax Peppermint Curs*