FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 32, 25 August 1887, Page 2

FL ASHES!

-Says the Wanganui Chroniola: There is quite a flutter amongst Mr Ballance's more ambitious supporters. Bunches of carrots of the ardently desired J.P. brand are .being held before their nodes. Mr Grace the member for tauranga in ihz late ParliSriient has jetired in favour of Mf Kelly. A graceful art. > - An example our County Council ought to follow while they yet have a chance. . Ths Ohincmuri County Council intends raising £BOOO under the Loans Act. Bad times in Dunedin, No dividend this for the Mornington Tramwar share* 11 Sydney and Melbourne " sdys Jisr firodjil Hoars, the latest of our critics, “aremagnifioent advertisements for their respective countries, Now Zealand has ne sucn ad. vertisemeut.” No, nor do we want such. Better to have a wide-spread populace than big centres of poverty. ■ Sir George Bowen, who refused to gate Hongkong, now wants to goto Westminster; into Parliament in fact, what a treat they will have when Sir George gets in. Ba is one of the moit verbose and tedious speaker* we ever had out here as a Governor, and report says he is worse than ever. The Hawera Star says that the deferred payment settlers on the Waimate Plains have all paid up their instalment* tot the half year. Glad to hear It, it 1 * a sign Of better times with the farmers over there; . A member of the Oariiaru school c3uimittee points out the incongruity of children “reading about the flowers of May," when frost and rain prevail out here in that month. He advocated a national New Zealand system

of school readers,. Good, if they arc well selected and got up. Castor Oil is easy to give ahd hard te take. So is advice. The coach fare betweed Napier tad Rotortla has been ciit down to 80 shillings, • Cheap enough. The Bell, says it is Very strange how prfinc empty Auckland houses are td take fire. Wellingtonians want a clock-tower cl before on the new Post-office. AS the bolt will be £l2OO the Government object td give the money. The Wellingtonians are therefore in a " towering ” rage. We are getting auite an old colony after all. The Auckland Anglicaua celebrated the other day the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. Says London Vanity Fair of the author ,of “She” and “King Solomon’s Mines.”' “He is one and thirty. In his chilhood he was regarded as the fool of the family, and declared to be as heavy as lead, both in body and in mind. He earned only £lO by * Dawn,' his first book.”

Amongst the written question* handed in for the Premier to reply to 'at a recent political meeting in Dunidin was the following: —“ Whate is your opionyen about ' Sir Guelis Vogal ? ” Business on the Sydney side must be looking up. The revenue for the four weeks ending July 31, showed an increase of £128,000 on the corresponding period of last year. Perhaps sales of Crown lands had something to do with it. The Government of the little kingdom of Hawaii indignantly deny the report that they intended going in for repudiation. For all that, it was only the threats of British and Yankee gunboats being sent, that has mad* them dub up. Germany is pretty rough on her Alsatian subjects. A Strasburg lady ha* been ordered to close her school for the heinous offence of teaching little French girls to read and write their own language. The lady will now be no doubt astrong believer in General Boulanger and the “ war of revenge.” A bronze etetue of the late Sir Bedmond Barry has been erected in front of the Melbourne Public Library. Those beautiful specimens of animated imbecility, the English J.F.'s, have been at it again. For stealing a pair of compasses, value threepence, an Ipswich boy got ten years' imprisonment and five years in a reformatory, Great Britain has not gone completely to the dogs yet. The invested capital in 1880 was £744,000,000, an increase over that of 1883 of over £12,000,000. Protection does not do everything tor a colony. There gre over 1000 carpenters out of work in Melbourne at the present time. The iron from the Taranaki iron-sand is to M”"puddled ” alt the Onehunga works. A success is expected. If the action brought against the Dunedin Corporation by Messrs oargoods had been successful, an extra rate of threepence In the pound would have to have been struck. The case was one of damage .to .property through alleged defective drainage. Judge Williams held the Corporation could not be blamed for the strain by the storm water, and the ratepayers cry, “ Ob, wise and learned Judge I" The Otaki natives ere protesting against the Native Lands Administration Art, which they eay is not for the benefit of the natives, but for the Government alone.

The latest Christchurch joke ie that a lead* ing draper is preparing a patent impermeable egg-proof coat, for the use of candidates when addressing political meetings. An '.‘anti* brickbat head protector ” la also in course of preparation. The Auckland Bell calle the Hall-Atkinson lot “ the Stupid Party.” The same paper says: " Th* fangs of thl Hall-Ormond party are red with the blood of the colony, and their chops are watering to be at it again.” Dunedin is supplied with gas at 8s fid pdf thousand for cooking and motive power. The Gisborne Gas Company—but no, w* will re. train. An Auckland metaphor I Mr Cooper, a candidate for Ponsonby, said in a recent ad* dress that the Civil Service was like the rata tree round the kauri, and was rapping it* life, and would have to be cut down to save the colony’s life. Over 100 men travel daily to Northcote from Auckland, by steamer, to a new gum-field which has been discovered. They make on an average five shillings a day. Eight plans have been sent in for the Nelson Council’s premium of £2OO for'the beet scheme for dealing with the local sewage. Says the Wakatip Mail: “To buy in th* cheapest market and sell -in the dearest is sound political economy, but we must nevertheless protect our workmen and manufacturers to a certain extent. Good on the Premier! At Leeston the other day he said with reference to the education system : It had been pointed to as a sacred ark which should not be touched. He knew a story about a man who touched an ark and had his hand withered. He (Sir Robert) wished, politically speaking, that any man who did touch the Education Act would have his hand politically withered. A German professor says he has discovered that the Egyptians made beer before the time of Moses. There is nothing new about that. The trade mark of Bass’ ale 1* a red pyramid, as all who are acquainted with the bottled article know. What does that mean if not that the [Egyptian* drank Bara’ ale and painted the pyramids red thereafter ? Tomatoes were grown as mantel ornaments in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1837. As late as 1837 in Connecticut, they were regarded a* poisonous.