FLASHES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 8, 28 June 1887, Page 3

FLASHES

Quantum suff ! Of what ? Why the rain. As the Natives sav at the 'dhelubiou of their letters—“ Enough,” ' V* 4 echo 'h* s °ry- rain, it raineth ave-vdav and to 01088 Gladstone Road, before long w? ’ball require a whaleboat, and an accident PoHoy. Poverty Bay v. .Hawke’s Bay at football next Saturday, at Naf W. We success to our boys. . , Meme tor would-be elect.'iN-don’t forget The Yankees gflihg to let fteUer, the St. Louis murderer, dangle off the of a rope for a few minutes? eh I Good Job too, a cold-blooded? OGnilViptible skunk who basely slaughtered a trav-elbng companion. Why that's over a year ago. Of ooUfK®, that's the way they do things across the " big drink." Ana mostly they get off altogether. They do not always order these things better in the States. Not much dear boys. This is sad news about the poor Princess of Wales suffering from melancholia. The most popular, prettiest, best little woman in England, so says every Englishman. Why Wales wouldn't be half the man he is without her tact and popularity. And they do say—but sh——> Whatever they say about Wales and his Poins-Bardolphian companions, everyone speaks well of the Danish lady who wedded the Queen’s son. What a terrible thing it would be if she followed the Duchess of Cumberland’s example. Who is she. Why, the Princess' sister Thyra, who went mad a month or two ago when she heard of the attack pn the Czar.

They’re all connected. Our Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Cumberland, and the Czarina of Russia are sisters three, and all unhappy. " Uneasy lies the head," etc. Sala is lecturing in London on his colonial experience, All G.A.S. as usual. The Marquis of Normanby has lost his eldest son, Lord Harry Phipps, at the early age of 88. Sir Walter Buller has presented a Hula bird to the London Zoological Society, Wellingtonians want £2OO to send their sculler, Hearn, over to Sydney. They will get it. The word Vogel in German means a bird. Our Vogel Is a very knowing old bird. Fiji people have been badgered for contributions to the Imperial Institute. Despite the official flunkeys who did the toadying business, they did not get a £lO note in all. Crushed again ! Burglars broke into some Wellington wine vaults last Saturday and had a Jubilee drunk.”

Not for Joel At a meeting of Mormons of Kirtland, Ohio, Mr Joseph Smith, the son of the celebrated Mormon Prophet, denounced polgamy in emphatic terms. Saw too well the working of the system in his father’s house, eh ?

School-inspector Sullivan, of Auckland says that when a teacher ceases to learn it is time for him to cease to teach. Latest Jubilee from Woodville Jubilee I Jubilee!! Jubilee!!! W. J. Little begs to intimate that all long-standing accounts must be paid before the 21st inst., or there will be a Jubilee at tne next B.M. Court.

The Greymouth papers are commenting upon the success of a lady canvasser for the N.Z. Accident Insurance Company, in the person of a Miss Smart. Smart is a very appropriate name for an Insurance convasser. Proof of debt forms at the Standabd office.

The North Otago Times states that at S resent 500 men are employed in the North itago district in digging and bagging potatoes, and are earning 8s a day on the average. Sir Dillon Bell has been denouncing Froude’s "Oceana ”in London. "Oceana” is now cursed in New Zealand by Bell, book, and candle light. Cardinal Manning is an A 1 all round patron. The other day he presided at a meeting of London jarvies and now he has become Vice-President of the Newspaper Press Fund.

Big, burly Sir William Vernon Harcourt said tc Lora Charles Beresford, of naval renown, the other day, * ‘You are a very good sailor, but no one takes you for a state, sman yet," “ Just so," retorted Beresford, << no one knew you to be a weathercock at first."

At Brisbane, Mount Morgan shares arts quoted at 625, buyers. This makes the toted value of the mine £3,100,000 1 Count Bismarck is about to visit Ireland!, He probably wants to discover a few “ bloo d and iron " wrinkles for the old man,

Jobbing work done at the Eiahdard office cheaper than at any other office in town. Support your really only local paper, The N.Z. Premier draws £1,200 and travailing allowances of two guineas a day, besides cadging on the publie tor a cheap railway ticket. The President of the Swiss Republic only gets £6OO a year, and yet people believe the Swiss are better governed than the New Zealanders,

The Bev, Charles Clarke is coming 'out to the Colonies on another lecturing tour.