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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1717, 6 April 1906, Page 3

A Palmerston doctor had a queer experience on Monday night (says the Mans* watu Timee). Sitting in hie studio, he was Btariled by a shower of stones on the roof. He went out to investigate, but failing to discover the originator of the demonstra* tion, stood in the night air enjoying a cigarette. Bang ! A rock passed his head and hit the gate. Bang ! A second rock hurtled under his left armpit end struck the side of the bouse.' Then a figure emerged from the dark, a' maniac shortly was heard, and a man went bonndiog I along the road. The police took a hand in the game, and lodged tbo offender in the lockup. It transpired that the unfortunate man w.a3 insane, ar.d wished to kill the doctor, because be believed that the latter was connected by a telephone in his head with another medico, and prevented the lunat'o from imparting some important boalth seorets. His idea was to kill one of the doctors and break the connection. Coming before the Magistrate the nest day, he was ordered to Porirua. The unfortunate fellow had made efforts during the day to secure a revolver, but luckily failed in his mission.

A protest is made by the Victoria Fellmongers’ Union againßt the continued excessive exportation of sheepskins from the Commonwealth. "During last year,” Mr Dupree, the secretary, reports, " no fewer than 7,521,008 sheepskins were exported, and this quantity, if fellmongers in Australia, would have given employment for 12 months to 1400 extra fellmongers, to say nothing of those who would have been employed indirectly. The fancy leather trade in sheepskins is also declining through being unable to obtain locally in sufficient quantities tanned basils. Tbe Chamber of Manufacturers is taking up tbe question of more encouragement to tbe woollen industry ; and this question is receiving tbe hearty support of the Fellmongers’ Union, who knowing the millions of pounds’ worth of raw material of this commodity that is sent annually out of Australia, believe that if sufficient encouragement were given to it, an industry would be established oapable of employing many thousands of individuals. It seems strange that so muoh raw material that could be utilised locally should leave our shores, while we have to depend upon another oountry for a finished article made up of our own raw material. In addition to sheepekins, 171.173 bides were exported that could ' very well have been used locally.