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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 5 July 1887, Page 2

The emissaries of Russia' are all over Central Asia, from Armenia to Kashgaris, from Khiva to the Persian Gulf, India itself is not free from them—not Russians, but Asiatics in Russian pay, who are familarising the people with grandiose ideas of the overpowering growth, the magnitude, the wealth, and the generosity Jof; ; Bus«ia.—St. James’ Gazette.

If Dargaville be not worth much as an M.H.8., he is a good hand at Company mongering, for says the Hastings Evening Star;—“ It is understood that during the visit to Dunedin of Mr Dargaville, M.H.R., he succeeded in floating between £40,000 and £50,000 worth of Kaihu Valley Bailway Company's debentures through one of the Dunedin banks.”

There is an old blind man at Ashburton, named Thomas Glenn, who prefers to go to gaol rather than remain an inmate of the Old Men’s Home. He was sent to the latter institution on several occasions, and about three months ago absolutely refused to go back, preferring to go to gaol. When charged with vagrancy the magistrate reasoned with him, but he remained firm, and to get over the difficulty he was sent to gaol for three months. This term expired, and he was returned to Ashburton with Is 6d in his pocket. This he utilised in hiring a cab to take him to the police station, where he gave himself into charge for vagrancy. AU attempts to induce him to enter the Old Men’s Home proving of no avail, he was sentenced to another term of six months in gaol. A sad affair is] reported from Dunedin. The Post's correspondent says; " Charles Ernest Towsley, a high school boy was killed accidentally this morning fu his mother’s house. It appears that recently he intended to go rabbit shooting, but being debarred by tht weather he must have replaced u pea rille in its usual position without drawing toe cartridge. This morning for some cause that can only be conjectured, pissibly by the act of the puor boy reaching down his cl ' hes, the rifle seems to have become detached from its peg, fell, exploded, and caused his instant deuih. The explosion does not app. ;r to have been heard by the inmates of the . .use, but lhe alarm was given by the fall of deceased. Among the distressing ciicum--nances of this calamity is toe fact that toe deceased's futoer resides iu Melbourne, and that he had but recently come to this town to attend tbe High School. An inquest was held in the afternoon, and a verdict of accidental death waa returned. A dog fight was arranged at Cardiff on Sunday morning, between a well-known animal belonging to Mrthyr and a Cardiff dog that had previously won several matches. Tiie stakes were £2O a side, and tile fight was witnessed by thirty or forty persons, w..0 arrived by various routes at the secluded spot fixed upon. The dogs were bull terriers, the Merthyr one weighing about 301 b and the other 261 b. The fight commenced shortly after daybreak, and lasted over half-an-hour. When toe contest had been in progress about twenty minutes the Merthyr dog had got the worst of it, and in the next ten minutes ha was rippod to pieces by his adversary. For the final heat he was brought up in a dying condition, and, despite the frantic efforts of his backers to set him on again, he refused to face his opponent. His owner thereupon cut the poor animal’s throat from ear to ear with a pocket knife, and threw the body into a ditch ; and, toe stakes having been handed over to toe owner of the Cardiff dog, the company separated.