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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 171, 31 July 1901, Page 3

Sergeant Petersen (of Napier), seriously wounded at Vereeniging, was attached to the Third Contingent, and saw some hard fighting during the first campaign. He was captured and imprisoned, but subsequently escaped from Nooitgedacht, and safely eluded his Boer pursuers, but on reaching the British lines was shot by a sentry. A correspondent thus writes from Sydney concerning the tiro at Anthony Hordern’s warehouse :—“ Just as I was posting my letters the great event, which has filled all mouths- ever since, was happening Anthony Hordern’s warehouse was blazing, and four poor fellows threw away their lives in the effort tft do their duty to their master to the last. Poor Clegg, the one who, in desperation, after waiting half an hour to be rescued, jumped from the ninth story to the street, when the flames reached him, -was buried on Saturday afternoon in'Waverley Cemetery—the biggest and most affecting military funeral there has ever been in Sydney for years, about SO,OOO people following. Of the other (engineer and firemen) nothing, of course, will ever be found. It was a heart-breaking scene when Mrs Dashwood and her five little children came in on Friday morning, seeking news of the brave fellow' who was firing up his engine to keep the pumps going when the flames swept across the street like a sheet, and all chance of escape was cut off. He was an Auckland man. Sam Hordern gives the widow £2 a week till the children come of age, and then offers them positions in the employ of the firm, if they wish it," Once give Kitchener a free hand, and we venture to assert that within three months the great Boer War, like last Christmas, will be numbered amongst the things of the past. —Charlestown Herald. Let the sexual criminals be handed over ta a board of surgeons, and, through the use of anesthetics, an otherwise painful operation may be performed without much suffering. Let the criminal bo then detained in gaol ontil his health is quite restored,—Opotiki Times.

I Some sixty sets of wireless telegraphic apparatus have been ordered by the Admiralty for use on battleships. The subject of bribery is at last raised officially by the Co-operative Union. Astounding corruption is alleged, even directors having been in the habit of receiving secret commissions from wholesale firms to whom they gave business. The New York Herald is sending pictures by wireless telegraphy. The American Locomotive Company, of Albany, has been incorporated with a capital of XT0,000,000, with the object of controlling the locomotive trade. At a creditors’ meeting in London, Mr Hooley objected to company directors on the committee, suggesting Board of Trade liquidation, and promising 20s in the £.