FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 47, 29 September 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

The effects of the eleotion I Two “ free and independent ” voters were found on Tuesday morning in anything but comfortable quarters, but how many were there who could not find comfort anywhere ? Headaches were as contagious as is In: fluenza in cold weather I Taking it all through though things were pretty tame I None of the old-time play nor Yankee notions on Monday night I One bad feature was the juvenile drinking propensity which was displayed 1 It was simply disgusting to see the way some youngsters carried On 1 Cricket season opens On jtondey! The Hapara walk, one would imagine, will rather sap the effervescent spirit of the leatherhunters I Better a stretch of the limb than a black eye from a rutty recreation ground I A Salvation man swore a dreadful swear on Monday night I Some mischievous small boys bespattered him with rotten eggs, and not having the patience of Job he tried to batter email boys 1 Result, nearly choked with nauseous mat. ter and profanity 1 They say bullock-drivers are the only privi. vileged swearers ! Why not a special allow, ande for such as aforesaid victim ? Bryce, the “ man who shook noses with 1* Kooti,” has been defeated 1 Wall, the Eas ( Coast has no reason to thank him, and would always like to see him in the House—in the Opposition, of course 1 The new M.H.R. makes his first score I Advised the electors te get home to their roosts I Capital counsel, but unfortunately the little ducklings fancy thev can learn to swim in spite of their anxious foster-mother I When his M.H.R,-ship gets down among the wicked Wellingtoniane he'll soon get used to late hours I You know what Glover said? A Charitable Aid Board in Otago tailed fdr the sixth time to get a quorum together. Perhaps they find it the most sensible plan to keep away. At Oamaru a horse put his foot on a broken bottle and Severed the back tendons of the fore foot, Then stepping forward tho weight broke the foot completely off, and of course the horse had to be destroyed, A Dunedin paper says it is always diffl. cult to argue with men who will not think for themselves, and who are contented to m□ept the opinions of others without digesting such opinions. Hear, hear 1 ’

Jay Gould la b placid, inoffenßln, washed, out.looking, slight littleman, and appears not to weigh more than ninety pounds. It is stated that Sydney Harbour is silting up an enormous silt bed, running right across from Fort Macquarie to tbs northern foreshore. Five hundred and nine thousand oil hundred and two pounds was the amount passed through the totalisator in New Zealand last season. This is £50,171 less than the sum invested the previous year, but £89,0000 more than in 1884-5, ’ The latest estimate of th.- p j-uL.ion of China ia 450,000,000. A large sum of money has been offered by the Queen for a collection of letters ot the late John Brown. Mrs. A. J. Bell, of Mount Vernon, Ohio was recently fined lOOdols. for whipping a coloured servant. The lessees of 1600 convicts in Georgia net at least 75,900d015. per year on their labour after paying the State 25,000 dollars. The anti-treating crusade ie the latest development in the Prohibition warfare in the South. It is manifested especially(in Georgia. The new water-supply of New York city will be 320,000,000 gallons daily, which wifi meet the increasing manufacturing requirements.