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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 584, 19 March 1891, Page 2

Tbe Gisborne Building Society has £4OO to lend.

The S*. Andrew's Literary Soolety holds ita annual mseiiug on Monday ovenlug next.

At Hvrmstou's Wild West Show in Brisbane Texas Jack was glviog an exhibition ot rifle shooting, aud the bullet missed tbe mark aud struck a youth named Osborne, who ia likely to lose tbe right of one eye, A writ for £5OOO Was issued agalust the pro. prietnrs, and as they wets unable to find £lOOO bail they were arrested. The Illustrated Australian News says t—

"It Isa very common custom amongst all connected with tbe wheat business st this time of the year to habitually chew the grain, end very few are aware of tha serious possibilities attached to the prao> tice. A young man named Morisay, of St. James, who was engaged in stripping* ate a quantity of the new wheat ae ho was doing his work. He wae taken ill* and the cue became so serious that ha was brought into Tungamah for medical assistance. No less than three surgical operations were neoesoary, and it waa net until some days that the doctor pronounced biitt out of daagor."