As Others See Us.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 30, 20 August 1887, Page 4

As Others See Us.

(Hsw ZEALAND IIKMS FBOM THE BULLETIN.)

In the New Zealand poet Bracken's bankruptcy schedule appear the following items : “ I. A. Moses, money lent, £5B ;M. Abrahams, do., £37 ; I. Cohen, do., £27 ; Jacob Levi, do., £23.” Hooray! Thuethe N.Z. Herald: “Our respected townsman, had the misfortune to break hie leg on Sunday evening last whilst coming down stain. A new one is being made by one of our coachbuilders for him out of a piece of well-seasoned heart of kauri.” Smart folks those New Zealanders! General Whitmore wired to a major in a certain district of New Zealand: « Forward all subscriptions towards Imperial Institute at once." The reply came: “ Haven’t subscribed a red cent Not a stiver. Many regrets. Better luck next time." “ Next time " looks vague. It may refer to next Jubilee. A pe irson, representing himself as the Hon. Somebody, member for somewhere in the House of Commons, has been expelled from the Northern Club, Auckland, having failed to establish his identity. Wellington, N.Z., possesses a big brained individual who has fired off a pamphlet that only deals with “ Retrogression Freetrade and Protection, Nationalisation of the Land, and Analogy between Ireland and Canada.” As the price is moderate it ought to satisfy any litterary glutton. Lawyers and journalists—-The bane and the antidote—dominate N.Z. politics. Apropos, the most dangerous of all politicians is the lawyer who is a pressman. N.Z. owes £90,000,000, and annually sends four millions out of the colony as interest.