FLASHES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 20, 28 July 1887, Page 2

FLASHES.

Oh, ph, the opld wind did blow .yesterfiay.' of rubbish they contain, fully six of them —- never would be missed. Sir George Grey has loat a lot of his politi, oal friends in Auckland by hie reoent change Will get in Safe enough, but the Liberals art! justly annoybd at hie recant Tory utterances. A common complaint juet now. Bays the Opotiki local buster:—Business in town seems very dull thia weak, there seems .to be very little to do and too many to do it and easa is very roatiH. < . ■ , . Register I Register i Register I before It if too late. Captain Riisseil is to be opposed by Mr Arthur Deemond for the Hastings electorate We are afraid Mr Desmond has not g“t m” show, but we heartily wish him sucoms Lungworm in his sheep is saddening the heart of the Rangitikei sheep.farmer just now. A severe loss has already been sustained. At a Wellington City Council meetine id>i week on'4 member railed against towyen Mr Mentesth, a candidate tor the Te Aro seat, has delivered an address. He said his polLical motto was “ Govern leu, spend less and speak the truth." Bravo I On a big bell made at Oastlemaine, Vic. .° r k J!sus°’ ,n , “ ‘!* e AWaide Exhibition IB the following j-2 1 wa ' l mada on Victorian 80 °®PP““d Tasmanian tin, melted with New Zealand coke, by English, Irish, and Scotch men, under an Aduaide boy." “/in Mao Cool of Skibbereen *’ is the title of a play by Dion Boucioault produced recently in Fneoo. * The disgraceful manner in which Major Atkinson s meetings are being) disturbed by his opponents is creating a great deal of jynapathy and it fa ndw thought he will Mai M ° hw h !° h at one tSme *“ oonrideratf very doubtful. Life ii_not all bliss on a Queensland baok block. The following inscription waa found on the door of a dwelling house in that country 600 miles from the nearest railway station, 800 from the nearest post-office, six from wood, three from water, and six inches from hell! I’re gone to live with my mother-in-law." Sir Malcolm Frazer, Colonial Secretary of t 8“ Aua ‘ r »H»’ and in the last batch of la ivir wa ‘ at one tf me a surveyor under the Wellington Frovinoial Government, , The United Insurance Company resisted a claim tor £B2O on a Dunedin fire policy the other day, but tha Supreme Court ordered them to stump up. At a meeting of the Political Reform Association m Christchurch the other day, a working man said he had worked in free trade England and protective America and had found the latter the woru. He worked long hours m American harvest fields tor 50 cents (2a) a day. Still on the road to India! Reports have reached Simla that the Russians are extending the Merv railway and telegraph to Pendjeh. Wellington shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Co. threaten to make things lively at the General Meeting in August. As more shares are held in Wellington than in Christchurch Wellingtonians growl at the Canterbury port being the head quarters. s.s. Tongariro, a paddle-steamer of about 50 tons, has arrived at Napier tor the Napier-Wairoa-Mohaka trade. She is said to be a very handy little boat. This is what a writer in a London society paper says:—"l have reason for believing that Prince Henry of Battenberg has been much impressed by at least two fair members of Mr Wyndham’s Criterion Company—to wit, Miss Mary Moore and Mies Ffolliot Paget; but the epirituelle grace of the former oan scarcely command such genuine admiration in the young Teuton’s breast as the more fleshly magnificence of the latter." Poor Princess Beatrice 1

Dunedin residents cannot be accused of political apathy, for over 5000 new applications to be put on the rolls have been received in the Southern capital. Money from bunny 1 Babbit skins ere now fetouing splendid prices in the Dunedin markets, the figures ranging from 7d per lb. tor summer skins, and Is lOd tor winter greys. Grave iears are entertained in Auckland shipping oirolea tor the safety of the barque Celeste, now seventy days out from the Bay of Islands bound tor Hobart. Sydney legislators aro agitating for a daily Hansard. Every man to hie taste, we should prefer a yearly one. Fort Takapuna, Auckland, has Meo strengthened by two hydromatio disap. peering guns," whatever they may M, and the Aucklanders now sleep the sleep of the just and have no Russian nightmares. Says the Napier Telegraph The Auoklanil bookmakers and others who attended the races were much puzaled to pronounce the names of the Hawke s Bay horses. They got .over the difficulty with Mangaobane by calling him ** Mahogany,” and Owhaobo "WmUjt,"