FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 7, 25 June 1887, Page 3

FLASHES!

" Joolibrating the Celebree I ” Can the leopard change its s' 'n ? Victoria Bay versus Poverty Bay? Subject discussed last night at ’ Harbor Board with an' nation. V uat a nr I old Captain Cook must have been to give us such a nr ne I By all means 1; lock off the " Poverty," but think twice betore you adopt the Victoria ! Bless my life, the P.B. Herald would look pretty as the “Victoria Herald," wouldn't Put them to the expense of get ting a new heading 1 Oh IU Its long odds they will oppose ths change! The word " Jubilee " is becoming hateful by >ts continual reiteration. Oh, bear up a bit; it will soon be all over _-up like a rocket and down like the stick, you know, At Wellington the Other day the Registrar pf Births had the pleasure of registering the birth of twins, the father being of the age of 71 years, and the mother 44 years old. The Wellington Education Board granted a week’s holidays to the youngsters to "joolibrate the oelebrpe." Wuat nonsense 1 John Bryce has an opponent for the Waitotara seat in George Hutchinson, of Wangannui, one of the local Devil's, own and a smart man. Mr Hutchinson has made a fortune in the city of Sandhills and Lunatics, and would make a real good member for the d'stri'-r.

We ; ington Evening Press has issued a portrait of Her Majesty as Jubilee supplement. Without puffing "puff,’ the portrait is well done, and speaks well for Wellington lithography, It was effected In the Press Office, and is a capital ot litho work.

Mr W. H. Milton, the well known Canterbury footba"er and cricketer, has died from typhoid fever. A good man and true, and a great loss to all Canterbury athletics. Ada Campbell, the well known Freethought lecturess, is off to America by the Mariposa on a lecturing tour about New Zealand. Pity she can’t mind her own business, New Zealand dosen't want such a poor advocate, Tne won.n is a complete fraud.

The Wanganui Jubilee Exhibition pro. mises to be a big success. Funds to go in aid of local library, one of the best in the Colony. The London Cirous is in the Patea Wanganui district. Business good. Put his pipe out. A Wellington young man the other day was standing on the edge of the wharf, lighting his pipe, when he overbalanced himself and fell into the water. Thej|got him out and dried -him, and sent him home to his ma, and the sharks piped their eyes at getting the ■ pipe and not the man.

Tennyson is too ill to write a poem for the Imperial Institute opening ceremony, Ah, he must have been ill when he wrote the Jubilee Ode. Is the author of the "Epic of nades” the coming Laureate ’

Probably. Apropos of the Imperial Institute and the imperial Federation idea, a good story is told as to a piece of crossfire between Mr John Bright aid Mr Deakin, who met at dimer in London.

Mr Bright suggested that Imperial federation was a mistake, and that the colonies

should “cut the painter. "Oh, no 1” replied the Victorian, "we are far too loyal and too closely attached to England to do that.”

"So loyal end so attached that you tax everything we send you,” said Mr Bright. To which Mr Deakin retorted—“ And you are so attached to us that you admit the goods of your worst enemy on the same footing as those of your owu children." That was a bright bit of repartee. Wonder if the story is true ? The House of Representatives during the session just closed sat 27 days of an average length of 7 hours 9 minutes. And for that each member draws 200 guineas from a “depressed "colony—at the rate of about £8 a day ! But look at the important work they did for their money ! Passed 18 Acts and introduced about 130 others, besides listening to 178 petitions ; and then they turned out the Government.