BY THE WAY.
Two robbeis entered a jeweller's shop in Bourke street, Melbourne, on Thursday, gagged and bound the shopkeeper and got away with £2OOO worth of jewellery. The Christchurch plague patient, Shield, continues to ini prove. Tho little boy Kogers has been removed from Lyttelton to the hospital erected on the site selected by Dr Mason, 'at Bottle Lake.
The Gieymnuth Borough Council has decided to ask the ratepayers to sunciion a further loan of £15,000 to complete works in tho course of construction.
Mr Arnold, M.H.lt., addressed his constituents at Dunedin on Thursday evening, confining his remarks mainly to local matters. He said that in a young colony there must be borrowing to permit of public works being pushed forward.
Teacher (in mineralogy class): "Johnny give me the name of the largest known diamond." Johnny : "The ace."
The Coronation competition at Bisley is expected to have £IOOO in prize money, with several handsome cups. The skeleton of a man twelve feet long has been discovered in a large cave near Mesa New Mexico.
Thursday's ' Gazette' contains a notification that the names of Messrs Mallard, Smith, and Christopher, of Dunedin, have been removed from the Commission of the Peace.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1037, 24 May 1902, Page 2
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