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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 958, 3 August 1903, Page 4

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By including unnaturalised aliens in the Queensland population, it is contended that that State would be entitled to another member. The Victorian Standing Committee on Railways is considering tbo question of converting the St Hilda railway from steam to electric traction. A peculiar accident happened to a lad named Sloane, living at Bunearby, New South Wales, while out shooting with his brother. The latter was carrying a gun, which ho thought was not loadod, when it suddenly went off. The bullet went through the palm of Sloane’s hand, and I then entered his abdomen. He was taken to Bombala Hospital, where efforts were made to extract the bullet, but so far un- j successfully. "I am afraid,” said the senior member for Christchurch, at a public meeting in Wellington, “that if the Land Bill comes down, and the freeholders propose a clause giving the leaseholders the right to con vert their leasehold into freeholds, it will be carried in the present House. (A voice : 1 Thero’s no doubt it.’) Then if it is done, it will be a sorry day for New Zealund,” added Mr Taylor. The question of closing the Symonds street cemetery cropped up at a meeting of the Auckland Scenery Conservation Society. Mr Choyco said the time had come I when sentiment should bo put on one side. It wa3 a scandal that burials should ever take place there now'. The chairman (the Rev. Dr. Purchas) aad other speakers took a similar view. A conference of affiliated unions and branches of the Political Labor League, at Melbourne, has decided to heartily support the policy pursued by the Federal Labor party in connection with the Iron Bonus Bill. A motion was also carried urging the party to oppose the payment oi bonuses to private syndicates by all means within its control. Last year,' 138,000 copies of the Bible iu Japanese were circulated in Japan.