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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 613, 28 May 1891, Page 3

The Jubilee coinage is said to be doomed, the Academy having been asked to furnish sketches for a series of gold and silver coins. Telegraph-hill, Hatcham, 10 acres in extent, one of the highest spots in South London, is to be secured as an open space. While widening the roadway in Aidgate the excavators unearthed human bones, estimated to be those of about 1,500 persons. There were 40 coffins, each containing a body. Mr Burdett, founder of the Royal Pension Fund for Nurses, has been presented at St. Thomas’s Hospital with a screen containing tbe photographs of the first 1000 nurses to enroll themselves. A titled lady and her sisters have started a mushroom farm at Poole, the proceeds of which will go towards the support of a boys' evening school. A lady instructed a solicitor to prepare'a deed of separation, she wishing to leave her husband. The solicitor sued the husband in London for the cost of preparing this deed, and he had to pay the claim. A large number of natives assembled on Kaiti on Monday last to hold a “ tangi ” over the remains of Mere Karaka (a native woman well known in Gisborne), who died last Sunday.