FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 49, 4 October 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

Concert and dance, Patutahi, to-night 1 Both Rowing Clubs meet to-highi 1 Snow on some ot the hills on Sunday! The month of October, too I

Wesleyan Cauroh gift auction on Thun, day next!

Egge at sixpence a doa. I Lowest price ever heard of in Ghborne 1 That means threepence or fourpenoe to the sellere! Hardly pays carriage, let alone fowl feed, etc., etc.—profit isn't dreamt 0! I Another alention wanted to clear off the surplus stock I Butter is selling,at 9d per pound! Can'i stand at that long 1 ,

A word of warning 1 The Rev. Mr Fox on Sunday night regretted that men were not more righteous - how much better would not the world be in every way? Electio.ia did not tend to convince one Of the morality ot the people I If the rev. gentleman had seen what some people see he might have used stronger Word! and yet have been mild !

A candidate down South cays he wae roe* " cally and treacherously betrayed by those who promised him support I In Auckland some ot the candidate! were promised more Votre than there were in the whole electorate I

Rough on newspaper men 1 A Bill is before the Senate of Minnesota; which provides that, an assault by blurgeon or pistol upon an editor;. reporter, or cotes, pondent for malicious libel, shall not be considered a violation of the penal code!

Prince Bismarck has got over hie hoarse* nesr, but it is feared he oannot be perms* nently cured.

Mr Gladstone does not like the term ot ” Gludstonians it is flattering to him, he says, but disrespectful to his patfj*; He admits that there are now two eeotion| of the great Liberal partjr, but of course he considers the Home Rule section to be the true blood,

There has been a nice little bit of quibbling going on between Gladstone and Hartington, each one accusing the other of slips of memory. They have been bringing up the Cabinet secrets to prove that eaeh is right, A public man niust be very careful of whai he says in England, or the Press.bh the othqf side will jump on him. Trevellyan has been going over to the Home Rule side, and the Times gives extracts of his former speeches, which show him to be anything but consistent.

Still when a man like Trevellyan decides to go back on his previous utterances, and stand all the abuse he kndws will be heaped on him, one would think there must be good reason for it A frothy little sheet called the Bay of Plenty Times said before the election that if the Government was defeated it wotild be t black day for that district; Better that some of these insignificant, papped-up little towns should wear crape for a while than that the country should be driven to the dogs.

A woman has been admitted to the Auckland Hospital with a bullet wound at tts corner of her mouth. She thinks she aml‘ lowed the bullet. She Ought to know 1 Theatrical companies complain a good deal of hard times, but a godd show generally dded well in New Zealand. Williamson, Garner, and Majeroni’s Royal Coniio Opera Company made a clear profit of £4OOO out ot their recent tour 1

Ominous signs! A Metz eorrespondert wrote in July that further enlargements cf the forts there are taking place. Evolutioi I by the troops are often conducted by night, the forts being illuminated by the electric light. The balloon department was making experiments With the view pt hurling down masses of dynamite on fortifications; The Times says that the Pope, while per, sonally opposed to the Separatist views of tbe Irish clergy, is to a great extent com. pelled to yield to them. A cable message says Spain alone of all nations would be accepted unanimously as a guardian of the Suez Canal. A Madrid eer* respondent says that Spain is not ambitioui of acting the part of a catspaw, and to.buftj her fingers on behalf of France with the Egyptian chestnuts, July was a warm month in America, In St. Louis there were a hundred cases of sunstroke, and this was general to the oast ot the Mississippi.

We will soon be getting it warm in Gisborne now, and the water-cart is badly wanted.

The proprietor of a New York paper hde offered Prince Bismarck £25,000 a year to write him one article a week.

The N.Z. Herald gives an account of how the defeated Auckland members were beaten. Each candidate puts it down to wholesale treachery. In some instances the number ot votes expected to have been obtained were double the number on the roll;

In Victoria and New South Wales there ate 200 shearers out on strike.

As a steamer was passing through the Straits of Gibraltar lately a dog jumped over, board and was found to be holding Up a drowning man lying across two oats. The master was presented with a silver cup for saving life. It is reported that an English syndicate Hai undertaken to build a railway connecting Poti Elizabeth, on Coal Creek, with Greymouth.

A number of English detectives are being sent over to America to watch the Irish movsment there.

Lawyers, read, mark, and inwardly digest | For hie services in a bankruptcy matter which extended over two yean a German solicitor's bill of costa was seven guineas, A Gisborne lawyer's would have amounted to nearer 7,000 guineas,

It is related that an Auckland preacher, who is. well-known in the football field, said lately, " Here endeth the first spell,” instead of here endeth the first lesson." This is vary probably our old Gisborne friend.

A happy sign of the times, of general Im, provement, and easement of pressure, was that one day last week, the Bev. Mr Fatter, son united four couples iu the bonds of holy matrimony. There is nothing like plenty of marriages to show the prosperity of a community, says a Napier paper. No wonder they want to impose a tax on bachelors ! A young man at Castlemaine ehcl himself after eighteen months married life, leaving a bouncing widow and £5OO insurance money. He had no precuniary embarrassments and had made his will a few days before, no cause for the suicide being elicited,

A tinfield at Silverton (Australia) la turn, ing out extra well, and speculators are converting the tin shares into gold coins very successfully. In the Dorn divorce suit at Sydney £l,OOO damages were ordered from the co-respondent, a solicitor named Nicholson.

A bill has been brought before the Vietor* in Parliament to grant Mr Lalor, the speaker, £4OOO from the consolidated revenue on account of ill-health.

During the discussions on the measure one member called another impertinent and said he would pull his nose. Later on ho rushed up to him and shook his flat in his faos, and fiercely cried out he would thrash the other soundly. Friends eventually restored peace, but the Deputy Speaker would not interfere. Some members were afraid Mr Lalor’s creditors would swallow up the money but the Attorney-General said he would take care to prevent that. At Melbourne a man has been sentenced to death for a criminal assault on two boys. Nineteen years previously he received a similar sentence which was commuted to seven years.

A young doctor who has lately bought • practice in a country town on me home in high glee the other night. ”Do you know, my dear,” he said to hie wife, " I’m really becoming quite well known here. The undertakers bow to me already.” A meeting at Melbourne decided that a £lOO tax was necessary to restrict the Chinese. How modest 1 We can’t stand frea trade in Chinese, but this is placing too much value on the little almond-eyed heathens. At the declaration of the poll at Wanganui Mr Ballance was hit in the mouth with a bag of flour. That was for trying to in, r.aee the Customs dutiesjon that article.