FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 40, 13 September 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

Samoan trouble very seriodt. Rather 1 We .hall non hear Samoa about First results oi Crimes Act—Blood ihed and strife. Pity poor Kirifi. Mac at Mao-araka to-night I Stanley safe after all 1 Harbour Board met thia evening, No 11 bn," police or elvd, at th. R.M, Court yesterday. Wellington papers are lull ol eoaiplimedtl to Carroll. Men-of-war are expensive things. The Victoria, the heaviest vessel in the world, baa just been launched on the Tyne, It coat the British ratepayers £750,000 and carries two 110-ton guns Ths Dunedin Dock Trust Loan is likely tfl prove a frost alter all. The Melbourne speculators will not touch It! ■ The Boyal Commissioner appointed io examine into the result ot the Education system strongly condemns the system of pay* ment by results ae It leads to cramming and other evils. The Auckland Bell on OrmondThs type and personifleatloh ot uomingled selfishness in public life. Maori whalers at the Brothers, near Web lingtdn, taught a whale 92 feet long. The estimated value is £4OO. The Hawera Star anticipates further fencing troubles with ths Te Whiti natives and it is perhaps in view of this eventuality that ths constabulary force at OpUniiite fids been strengthened. " Oh for opr beautiful harbour " the Sydney people will soon be saying. The selebrated harbour io said to be silting up. New South Wa|es sends about 80,000 *0 90,000 tons of coal fo 'Fglscd annually.' Price in 'Frisco, £1 8s per ton. A result of tinkering harbour worksTbd Wanganui Harbour Board baa increased th. wharfage on coal by Is per ton, Lady pupil teachers at Greymouih have started a cricket club and are said to be making excellent progress at the game. Dunedin anlateurs played lolanthd Idst week and in three nights took £270 As they have covered their expetitad the amateurs ard going to give the Charities a benefit. Retrenchment with a vengeance. For the last four months, says the Post, the Wellington B.M. has been obliged to take notes on loose sheets of paper owing to the impossibility of procuring a proper book from th. Government stofes; The Yankees are grand inlsntdrs. Nq citizen of any other country could invent such a lie as ths following if he tried" There is a man down in Florida so stingy that he uses a wart on the back of his neck for a collar button," Look out for false notes ! Several have been recently detectocL in circulation in the South Island and at Wellington. A caution to providores. The Wellington R.M. has decided that the owner of a vessel is not liable for goods shipped to the order of the providore. The Auckland Bell has caused considerable fun by inserting the election address of a candidate signing himself Jeremiah. Jeremiah is • well known pet monkey at Takapuna. It is the same animal which its sc* centric owner recently took to a church meeting dressed as a clergyman. Chief Judge Macdonald, of ths Native Land Court, and Mr Lewis, Under Secretary of the Native Department, are at Taupo on Native Land Court business. Says an Auckland paper Business fia* been slack in bankruptcy • filings ’ this week," tt is to be hoped it may continue so. The Wellington people are now revelling in the luxury of a poor tax. Railway guards are not pleasant husbands. An enthusiastic member ot that fraternity, residing at Parnell, on being awakened the other night from a dream of an impending crash by a train, found himself sitting up in bed holding his wife by the ears, having nearly twisted her head off in hie frantic efforts to " down brakes."—Bell, Mark Twain, who khpws something about newspapers, says of the London Tory Press " They lie firmly, they lie frankly, and they lie squarely; they lie with heads erect, and they are not afraid of their profession.” Mark's opinion on lying is doubly valuabls in that he is no small hand at the long bow himself.

" Rifleman " in th. Observer says ; It may not be generally known that the Auckland staff draw in salaries an amount equal to the whole of th. capitation for the district. SThe Druids Grand lodge of Australia has refused to create a District Grand Lodge for the south island of New Zealand. Only £6O was subscribed in Aaokland tfi the Queen’s Fund and this money has beta handed over to the local Benevolent Society for females in distress. Victoria has still 80 million acres of Crown land unsold, Mr Garvey, Governor of the Wellington gaol and Chief Probation Officer for Welling, ton, reports very favourably on ths workirg ol the Probation Act. Those brought under the Act have all behaved in an exemplai* manner. * The New Zealand Stud Company have decided to lower their capital from £250.0(0 to £50.000 in £1 shares. It is the intention of the Commissioner t| Polios to make the Police Gazette the medium through which any important deoi.-ions in the criminal Courts may be conveyed to tha whole of the force. Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet and rider is to bo honoured with a monument to the south eastern coraar of South Australia, where a good d al of his sporting life was passed, and his memory still lingers and is beloved, Biking don’t pay In Auckland 1 half-»-dosea bakers have filed within ths last fortnight, Far, Far, away I W. R. Waters has gone to Rio, In the decree of Pope creating Auckland a residental bishopric, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland is spoken as 11 Bishop of Auckland and the Kermadeo Group,” "Do M.H.R.'s pay for their whisky on the Hinemoa ?" is the latest poser for oandidates, One Auckland man says they do, ani another says they don’t but that tha driuks are supplied free, and the charge put down to the cost of the Hinemoa. An expenditure of £9OO will bo required to make Government House, Auckland, suitable for b. ing u»rd by the Governor or Adn iral, Constables in plain clothes have lately been attending the Napier churches and taking down the names of persons found misconducting themselves, with a view of prosecuting them. No n ed for Ci inainen to leave their own country- The coal lands of C> ina a: 6 five times as extensive as those r.f all Furope, while Ler gold, silver lead, copper, t n, Iren, and marble deposits equal those of any Other country.