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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 237, 15 October 1901, Page 3

One of the curses of our racecourse is the large number of men whose sole means of wealth is their wits, which they are by no means unscrupulous in using for their own ends, no matter how low the means used to gain those ends. The " whisperer ” is one of the worst of these posts, and one that the authorities should take every means to suppress. There are others who may he seen on any and every racecourse or on off ” days hanging around Queen-street, who arc never known to do a day's work ; yet they dress well aud are rarely short of some ready money. The mystery is, to the uninitiated, how they do it, yet they do do it, and " the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof." If the police will turn their attention to some of these gentry, following the good example of their Wanganui confreres, the furf will be by no means a loser. —-Sporting Review. A visitor to the Napier Show had a narrow escape from serious accident at the Hastings railway station yesterday afternoon, says the Napier Telegraph. As the five o’clock train for Napier was leaving the station a man endeavored to board it. The guard and a porter, perceiving his intention, tried to prevent him carrying it into effect. The man was, however, apparently very eager to travel by that train, and made a rush for the front of it. The railway officials before mentioned followed, and the man, seeing them, doubled back, and just as the last carriage was passing made a jump aud grasped the handrail. The impetus of the train caused him to swing in between the guard's van and the carriage, and notwithstanding the fact that the guard and the porter by this time got hold of him he would not release his hold. In order to prevent a serious accident they had, after all, to let him go by that train. Certainly his conduct was most reprehensible, and undoubtedly something further Bhould be heard of the affair. THE LATEST.—Be sure and see the -ovely Mercerised Goods we are now showing—equal to silk, but less than half the ost. Wears well.—C. Resit; & Co,