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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 7

Members of tlio Empire Commission arrived at Christchurch, from Dunedin last night and will hold their first sittings to-day.—P.A. Counsel (to witness in Auckland libel case): Have you ever heard a slanging match? Witness: No, I have never been in Parliament. Mr Cecil Palmer (hon. secretary 01 the Navy League, Wellington) advises that the gift Dreadnought New Zealand will spend one day at Gisborne while in New Zealand waters. The Wairoa Hospital Board intends to ask the Cook Hospital and Charitable Aid Board if it made the regulations re burials oi those who died from infectious diseases by by-law or'otherwise. The vital statistics for February, with the figures for the corresponding month of 1912, are as follows : —Births 47 (36), deaths 12 (6), Marriages 15 (22). 4i New Zealand can look forward to a big future market in Australia for horses and longwool sheep, provided you send good stock, and do not make the Commonwealth the dumping ground for stock that it not wanted here.” Such was the opinion expressed by an Australian visitor, speaking at the Feilding A. and P. Association’s smoke concert. An event of considerable interest to the town and to the Presbyterians of the district, is to take place next Thursday afternoon, when the corner stone of the new brick church, which the congregation of St. Andrew's is erecting on the corner of Cobden Street and Childer’s Hoad, will be laid by J. G. W. Aitken, Esq., of Wellington. The minister and office-bearers extend a very hearty invitation to the general public to be present on the occasion.

A South Island settler lost a valuable bullock in a peculiar way. A few bags of Malden Island guano were standing in the open, and the hullo ck, coining up to them, ripped the corner of one bag open with its horn. It had licked up about a cupful of the manure when it was noticed and driven away, but the animal only walked a few yards before lying down and commenced to breathe heavily. A purgative was given without avail, and in a -short time the beast died. When opened it was seen that the coating of •the stomach was burned away, through action of the manure, it was presumed.