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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 27 August 1887, Page 2

Several letters, telegrams and other items are unavoidably held over. The last wet weather has had a further serious effect on the lambing, a number having died from the wet and cold. Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennet will sell by auction to-day, at noon, a well-built four roomed house, together with section 3a, Berry street, off Cobden street. The terms offered are easy, and a purchaser will doubtless pick up a genuine bargain. It is expected that the approaching Melbourne Cup meeting will attract a great many New Zealanders to Flemington. The proposed distribution of the Bulli relief fund is stated to be unsatisfactory to the widows who are to receive it. They would like £lOO and the balance in annuities, but would greatly prefer the whole amount at once. It said that the Roman Catholics of Wellington have in comtemplation the starting of a newspaper in that city. Mr Jesse i’iper, who is opposing Mr Levestam for Nelson city, complained that the Colonist had misreported him. Thereupon the Colonist printed Mr Piper's letter just as they got it. The spelling is very much “off colour,” and the composition rather peculiar. Nice Measurement. —In the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition the Whitworth Company have a measuring machine for measuring a one thousandth part of an inch. Court millinering seems a profitable occupation, judging by the case heard before Mr Justice Kekewich on Saturday. It transpired that after making a fortune out of “ Madame Elise’s” well-known business, Mr Isaacson, her husband, sold the concern for £60,000 after having been offered £l5O 000 to turn it into a limited liabilitiy company. The West Coast Times is in for a £l5OO libel case for remarks made regarding a dismissed school teacher.