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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 3, 14 June 1887, Page 3

It is not proba"'“ many English per sons read the namburger Nachriohten. Their loss is very great, for they would find in it colums a valuable contribution to their knowledge of the amazing things which are being done in England for the celebration of tha Queen’s Jubilee. Perhaps the quainest of them all is the “Jubilee bustle," or “Jubilee pad,” or “Jubilee dress-improver” for loyal Englishwomen. Every laay who buys one will bo charmed at the discovery that whenever she sits down and leans back against the chair a conceded apparatus in tins article of dress will begin to play “Good (sic) save the Queen ” 1 The genie* and ingenious inventor, we are told, sent a specimen to Osborne, But he learned to his chagrin that his loyalty had “o’erleabed itself.” He had to be reminded that whenever “God save the Queen ’’ is sung all loyal citizens, male or female, invariable stand up. The “Jubilee oustle,” unfortunately, only becomes musical when-the wearer is sitting down ; ass soon as she stands up its loyai music ceases. Our Tuapeka contemporary is rather rough on the Cocknev sportsmen of that town when it eays:—Five gentlemen left Lawrence one day last week, armed with double-barrelled breech-loaders of the most approved patern, and cartridges ad ZiMtam, They were directed to a part of the country where the rabbits were said to be so thick tuat the ground moved like the surface of a troubled ocean, In the evening the party returned to town footsore and weary, witn their stock of ammunition alljbut exhausted, bearing between them the carcass of one dead rabbit—poisoned—into which the contents of some naif-dozen barrels had been poured. Overheard in the stalls : —Old lady (gazing down into the back of a fashionably dressed girl in front of her: —•- How the styles have changed since I was a girl. When I was young we used to wear our dresses up to the neck and gK <es with only one button. Now they wear the gloves up to the neck, and only one button on the dress.” A new attraction is now added to the Salvation Army at Wallsend, New South Wales. Three converted Indians, dressed in native fashion, narade the streets with tho band, and relate taeir sinful experiences. An Australian centenarian. The Melbourne A’gus of a recent date chronicles the death of Mrs Mary Hannan, aged 107 years.j