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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 94, 30 April 1901, Page 3

Dick Connell, of Temuka, ij another of New Zealand’s speedy men from the country aud his record of. winning the N.Z. Wheel Race from a fair mark back to scratch in a. few months’is an enviable performance. Connell’s age is given as nineteen years and he scales fourtq°r. stone in training—on 6j of tae heaviest men racing in tho C o 'iortft??s- ” ’

A meeting of the newly-elected Cambridge Borough Council wac to have been held on Thursday evening, but wing to the Mayor failing to put in an appearance, tlie' mebting lapsed. The position was a most'singular'one.' Tho Act provides that no person shall be capable of acting as a councillor until he has made and signed, in the presence of the Mayor, or any councillor, and the town clerk, a declaration- on the required form. The Mayor thus being absent, and virtually no councillor existent, theire was no alterative but to disperse. How does a marr get in a funk, And take himself right off to bunk,

Just when a pain with symptoms vague, Will make him think he’s caught the plague. How often does a cough or cold Make cowards of the brave and bold, Until they find the remedy sure— W. E. Wooes’ Great pErsEiMitsx Gbps.