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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 25 June 1908, Page 8

The Marlborough Acclimatisation Society lias decided to proceed against W. Page and E. Satherley for shooting game on the Big Lagoon early this week. The casea will probably come on next Wednesday. " This is going to be a busy winter in the building trade," said a "Gisborne architect to a Gisborne Times reporter; "and though there is a lot of talk about depression I can safely say there is no indication of ■any slackness. Why, I Igrow one eon-:, tractor alone who has £20 ;000 worth of work in hand, and alLt~he oilers: ; Are fairly busy,, and would fie anueh "busier if ;&hey could^iinly:;obtain -zaa- : : ierial and isMlled wwßkmeii. It is so (difficult to get. bricks liere, and timber - is so hard to buy that many jobs are i far behind time through no fault of,! the contractors." ! Beatrice Lamb, eighteen, a girl em-' ployed as a general servant at the Children's Home at Paddington-(Ne«r South Wale,-,), died on May 14th of phosphorus poisoning. At the inquest it was stated that prior to her death «he had informed a nurse tStat she was . unhappy, and had nothing to live .for, as her lover was dead. She also stated that she had saved £25, which she -^wished to be used in burying her be- , side her young' man at Cooma. -She stated that her .lover appeared ibefose ~ $am regularly ahortiy^awiter, nadriight. , A verdict of s«tcide was recorded;