GISBORNE NOTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13277, 8 September 1906, Page 8

GISBORNE NOTE.

[BT TIXEGHArH. — OWN COMIESro.NDE.VT \ Gisbornk, Friday. Them: is a good deal of comment locally m the fact that, tlio Cook-memorial, sub-crjn. tions for which were raised all over Mm colony, has been partly converted j n t 0 troopers' memorial, three sides having been covered with the names of contingeuter wnoWwS left this district for South Africa, and on? side only reserved for the commemoration of Cook's landing ii: New Zealand. Thi, was done, because the Cook memorial fun'd'fi' ' was supplemented by £150, the unspent bal- ' • ' ance of the patriotic fund moneys in hand after war claims had been met, the stipule tion being made by the committee of tho latter fund that troopers' names should b« ' ' I inscribed: but it was never supposed that they would monopolise so much of the Code monument. The opinion generally held it that the monument dees scant justice to the ; great navigator. Mr. Hamicru, Hci. LL.B.. was admitted this morning as a solicitor and barrister of " the Supreme Court by Justice Edwards, A Waipiro Bay correspondent telegraph* that a middle-ae,od man named On-low, , l pit sawyer, died suddenly at the Waipiro Hotel yesterday. Having taken a tit, the doctor was summoned and the man recouped. Later on. while talking to the doctor Sii 1 lie was seized with another fit from which be expired. Mr. Barton, S.M.. District Coroner, has directed that an inquest would not be necessary. Tee present sitting of the Supreme Court : ' concluded at noon to-day, after a duration of a day and a-hitlf. It is one of the shortest on record, if not absolutely the shortest.