According to the “Timam. the construction of the Opiln Bridge, on the boundary between the Levels and Geraldine counties, is making good headway. Three spans have been erected (there will be twenty-four altogether) and about one-tlurd of the piles have been driven.. The bridge is es- ■ Cimated to cost a little under LIO,UUU. There was a sound of agony by night Of sneezing, wheezing, groaning and of tears; . . , , It woke adjacent slumberers m a fright And made them quake with superstitious fears; ' Yet ’twas no spook that rent the midnight air, _ Or ghost, or goblin ’scaped from sepulchre, . ’Twas only Birilss, declaiming in despair His cold was worse, and he’d no Woods’ Peppermint Cure. y, The Southland rabbit trapping season from the exporters’ point of view lfas not been a large one, owing to the higli price given for skins. Now that they , are oil the decline there should be a fair amount of rabbits sent to the freezer. A trader notifies, states the Southland “Daily News,” that he is now paying 6d per pair for export rabats. . -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 3
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178Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 3
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