FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 30, 20 August 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

Mrs Gray, of Wairera, Otago. i» • strange sort of a mother. Her child slipped oft her back into a stream and the mother “ Mt upon the bank end made no effort to recover tt." " The body was found in 18 inches of water,' 1 The brute I Radical simplicity The coat of the stair, case of the new National Liberal Club wai about £BOOO.

Gassy greasy gush I Major Atkinson's speech at Wellington finished thusly 1 “ For the earth is the Lord's and ths fulness thers. of.” This was in reference to N.Z. But the N.Z. earth belongs to the banks and the fulness thereof to the Loan Com* panics t at least so the squatters say. Mr Kennedy Macdonald, the Wellington auctioneer, is representing the New Zealand Government in Sydney for the New South Wales Exhibition arrangements. The London Observer, referring to Sir John Gorst, says he is not a suooom in the House through his brusqueness of manner. “ When learning the Maori language " says the Observer, “ Sir John unconsoiouslv imbibed something of the fierceness of the Maori character."

The N.Z. Herald save that Mr W. L. Bees has definitely arranged to go to London in October on his land settlement cruiMde. The " Dook " of Manchester is on his way out to Australia and New Zealand. He baa extensive properties in the Manawatu district, Oamaru or " Wummeroo" as the local pronunciation hath it, is going in for retrenchment. The whole of the Borough Council staff have got the “saek.” New officials will come on at greatly ■ reduced screws.

The present Government have done one good act. They have consolidated 250 Acts into 17. If they could boil down the colony’s 467 lawyers into 17 they would do a much better act.

Only a spade. Sir Henry Parke’s daughter, on turning the first sod of a new line is to be presented with a gold and silver spade worth £2OO. We should like a “ nap hand ” full ot such spades. The Wellington Press pitches into the R.M. for not convicting the “ plucky servant girl ” for larceny. Politics are excessively warm in Napier. One issue of the Hawke’s Bay Herald had one leader, four locals, and one anonymous letter attacking the Liberal candidate. The previous evening the Telegraph attacked him in two leaders, one letter, and five locale. Moral of the preceding paragraph, that if the Tory Press go on denouncing Ivess in thia way, the plucky Joe will get in. Dunedin amateurs are producing “ lolanthe,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera. Amateurs are a plucky race, but lolantL* by amateurs is bound to be a pretty sick old show.

The latest High Church rot at home is reported from Birmingham, where the Indy members of the choir appear in Scotch lawns with pleated backs and purple velvet caps. Thomas Lee, a B list on (Eng.) lawyer, mistook vitriol for whiskey and died in five hotuw It’s no use hoping that our Gisborne law/ars will follow Lee’s example—they know smell of whiskey too well to take vitriol fO i • Practice makes perfection you know. Russia is said to spend £4,000,000 a year on her armaments. And yet the Czar says hie only wish is for peace !” The lower orders. Colonial destinations I Heard up Childers road last Sunday. “ Jack please don’t, you muss my hair.” But Jack ‘kept right on, on the ground that if hs • mussed ’’ he must.

The Auckland wharf is being widened, and paved with wood throughout. Says the N.Z. Herald : “ As the result of private correspondence from different parts of the Colony, the Opposition reckon upon winning either 52 or 53 seats.” Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.