FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 October 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

As per usual—rain 1 rain I Mr Graham, M.H.R., swears to-day 1 Major Atkinson Premier after all th« talk I Nominations Hawke’s Bay Guineas dose o-nightl A discovery 1 The Herald, has found dttt hat wo have a good dinlftte I It’s time they opened their eyes I Especially when they try to compliment i oung lady and sav—“ The organ was played >y a young lady who the congregation would .ike to hear oltener ” I Last Sunday night—-Rev. Mr Fox oneonii mercial craftiness—gave 'em particul it bean! Mild, you know, and it all’ a ealm tn* i smoo'h, but incisive -dresud up Id Diet anguage, but cutting to the quick I Lively cricketing at Hapara on Saturday I One learned friend was found to be m good as eleven ordinary knights I Our boys ought to put Wairoa through thia year—correspondent there prates about young men being gone in the sere and yellow leaf I That looks funny after the rattling drabbing down they gave a Gisborne team not K long ago—ours wasn't a genuine rap, team, but we got a licking all the same 1 When's the rowing season to open? Time they were buckling up to solid work If they ntend making a fair show against Napier .hie year! What is a strike ? Lord Ooieri Ige has derided that the ing of “ strike ” in a charter party proviso means a refusal to work for wages, and he does not take into account a case where men strike on account of the weather. A Leeds Magistrate has said that If a man was owed money by another man, and knocked that man down and took the money out of his pocket; it is not robbery I A law journal says this is Itartllng; and that they have advised their ai tided clerk not to travel in the street where his tailor lives I An indignant ratepayer at Waipawa warne the Council that “ rabbald rule and retrogreg. sion ” will not be submitted to. He wanted a pound for alleged damage te a “ graville pit ” I Sir George Grey refuses to take Office it] any Ministry on the ground that he Would not be likely to be of much service ta the country by taking a prominent position] Yes, but the knowing old man can do a lot towards keeping things straight by simply looking on 1 Racing sometimes pays pretty well. Mr Stead hauled over £6OO over the Napier races. Mr Arrow comes next with £lB7, M. Tiza, the Hungarian Premier, is of opinion that nothing Will happen to occasion an early rupture of the peace of Europe. Dynamiters in New York are soliciting subscriptions in order to commence another dynamite campaign in England.

The Tasmanian Government have passed a bill to regulate the immigration of Chinese. A Jewish gentleman named Lewis Lewis, residing in Sandhurst attained his 104th birthday last week. He celebrated his diamond wedding a few years ago. The French Government are sending immigrants to New Caledonia, allowing them convict labour free.

Sydney Building Societies have reduced the rate of interest one per cent. A double-headed lamb, with two fore legs and no lower body has been born in Canterbury. The lamb, or lanibs, wen joined di the shoulders, further on were two spines; tapering into minute tails, but no hindquarters. The Colonial Bank have opened a branch at the Bluff. It is further South than any other bank in the world. News from Strasburg states that extra, ordinary precautlotis are being taken by French officers to prevent any possibility of a hostile force being sent across the frontlet by train. Information from St Petersburg stales that the Russian Governmsnt are drawink lip a bill imposing such a heavy duty on pig Iron that it will render its importation from England or America simply impossible. “Ruddigore” is anything but a distinguished success in New York. Neither the first, second, nor third horse in the last great Metropolitan is engaged in the next Melbourne Cup, nor are they la the Caulfield, Disgusting brutality I Two notorious boxers, Dempsey and WeVa; had a live’y bout at Ohio, thin gloves being used as a blind. Dempsey got ft stunner on the temple Mnd also his band broken, and Neva was unable to rise after a terrible blow on the aide, a badly battered eye, and a ,Clit on the temple.

All for £lO a-sldel Another display of brutality 1 A desperate fight for the championship of Northeastern Pennsylvania took place between Hoar and Hurley a short time back. After the mens' faces had been battered into jelly, and two or three ribs had been broken, the derision of the referee was given in favor of Hurley, Hoar being unable to see. During the progress of a hand-ball match at Cork, between Lawlor (Irish Champion) and Casey (of Brooklyn)' for £4OO and the v. orld'e ehampio .ship, apanio was started by a cry that the gallery was falling. Some jumped from a height of twenty feet, but only one man was seriously injured. A mob then broke into the place end “ ructions ensued. The game is the best eleven out of twenty* two, ten to be played in Cork and eleven In New York. Bo far the Irish champion has won five to Casey's three,

Prevarication I A newspaper says the late gale was Strang enough to blow the buttons off a macintosh. Perhaps they were bachelors coats! The Waipawa County Council has” fixed " the Chairman’s salary at £o a year. This has been found to be an illegal coarse. “ Union is strength.” Mr George Fisher is to be entertained at a dinner and made a presentation for bis services In securing union among the Wellington members.

The schooner Rio left Newcastle last week lor Napier. The Wellington Star Boating Club have presented their captain, Mr Fitzgerald, with a handsomely chased silver cradle to celebrate the occasion of the birth of his first son during his office. The member who made the presentation said the Club ought to take a great interest in this young gentleman and he hoped that in a short time he would first appear on the scene as coxswain, then as a full-blown member, and finally as captain of the Clnb. Puff says: Somehow, the French always pick out the toughest job they can find in the colonisation or annexation line, and wrastle with it till they’re deadly sick ! Puff again: The Republican Government send the swells to all ths sorriest berths in the uttermost parts of the earth and give the snug billets at home to tho ragtag and bobtail 1 A witty writer says in reference to the reoent German frontier affair I—Tho only tear is that the Emperor has oveidoae it. Any number of gamekeepert.' wives will be want* ing them to be shot I Tusy c»n i-Ct another x gamekeeper any day, bat th y’d never got £lOOO in all their lite 1

Four hundred Cbinooe washermen hsve struck for higher wages in America. Rough oh him 1 “ Many a broken man et business and many a suffering family thia day have no one to blame for their misfortunes but Sir Julius Vogel.”—Preu. It a Frenchman wishes to dsink the waters ot Alsace he has first to obta’n permission of the German Government 1

The Queen has not only reigned longer than any other sovereign in Europe, but she <s the representative of tl e most ancient by tar of all the existing monarchies. The Rothchilds have £9OO, IOC.OM sterling at their disposal. Out of 610 peers-and p> er saves in their own right in England, 419 bear titles created since the reign of George 111. That empty-headed fop Prince Albert hag developed into a greater fool than even the most bitter of his enemies predicted. It is expected that the present session will be of short duration.