FLASHES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 54, 15 October 1887, Page 2

FLASHES

A hint to drapers and hosiers I Member cf Harbor Board said the Other night £3O worth of repairs to certaifi boat* landing would soon be saved in stockings! Thirty pounds in these dull times! Stop the work immediately—country members must have designed it 1 Six hundred pairs stockings less in drapers’ pockets 1 Our Ohly " jineral ’’—the rattie-patted Witty 1 The pawh little beggahr don’t mind the filthy lucre, but can’t stand being stripped of his pretty duds I— Puts one in mind of the recent English military enquiry when a competent witness said he believed the scarlet coat had more to do with the success of the Army than the pay hid—the Nancies still preferred their Tom* mies in the pretty jackets! Talk about retrenchment, with this lit"! sham toddling round the colony, pampered up on the best of everything, and poking up his nose at the struggling taxpayers ! Can't believe he’ll give it up so easy, though 1 Not without a whine, anyway 1 The Tauranga paper says the local firs brigade had a practice at the Tauranga hotel lately: No doubt all the members wire present, and their “ wet '• practice proved them to be in a state of efficiency; There is nothing like " spirits " in an emergency; Wellington piper states that fifty servant girls in Auckland applied for a billet .at five bob a week 1 We don't believe it—offer that to a Gisborne gal, and—well, look out 1 A leading Q.O. in London has applied for 1000 shares in the New Zealand Antimony Company. The Timaru breakwater has been much damaged lately, and visitors from there say its very existence is threatened; The Bell stales that Atkinsoh himself is b# tastes and instincts a Liberal, and that Mt Fisher lives by his wits, and has Hithertd been known mainly as the rowdiest and most disorderly agitator in the colony, Sydney Taiwhanga held a meeting at Rotorua the other day, and spoke to tha Pakehas present in English. They could not understand him, and told him so, whereupon Sydney Said '* These Europeans don’t under* stand their own language.” Owing to the fire at Whiteley’s, intoncton, hundreds are. out of employment, Whitelev employed 6000 hands. TbS race at Melbourne between the New Zealand horse Niagara and Abercom for the Foal Stakes was a great one, a dead heal being the result. The Wellington Post ascribes the rile Id New Zealand securities to arrangements mads by the Colonial Treasurer in London, General Boulanger has had his fortune told, in which it was predicted that he would in time almost reach a throne, Lord Shaftesbury has left Auckland via the Hot Lakes for Wellington, If Hantan does not beat Beach probably he will go to Auckland and reside there.

A Dunedin petition in favour of Bible reading in schools has been signed by over 3000 persons,

The output from ths Greymouth coal mines for the past weak was 8,537 tons. The week previous it was 4000.

The Tekapo left Wellington on Bunday night for Calcutta with 250 horses, ’ In the Howard-Hulme case at Auckland id which Hulrne was sued for £lOO damages, judgment was given for £5. It will be «. membered that Hulme knocked Howard down because he thought the latter was stealing a fowl,

New South Wales offers £25,000 for an effectual rabbit exterminator.

There has been great loss ot stock in Timaru owing to the late rains.

A. A. George, of bug renown, sued hie employer the other day for wages and lost the case.

The Empress of China has presented 600 stanzas of poetry of her own composition to the Hanlin College. We pity them 1 There are said to be 60,000 Americans in London spending on an average of £lOO each or £6,000,000 annually.

The London Methodist Annual Conference has resolved to hold its second Ecumenical Conference in United States in 1891.

, T A e P r : v pollioger, one of the founders of the Old Catholic movement in Germany is now over 80 years old and very feeble. In the east of London there is a churoh where parties wishing to marry mw h- ve the ceremony performed for sevenpence ha’penny,

From a blue book just issued it appears that of the foreign proprietors of land U Poland 3,000 are Austrians and over 29,000 are Pruwians,

General Boulanger’s daughter is about to become te nun, and his enemies say it is a Cterteal party. °' “* *° favo « «>.

Of the pupils in the United States public schools 95 per cent, never reach the high school, 50 per omt. never go beyond the primary department.

By a curious coincidence, Thomas Hal* s Telephone Exchange at Timaru has now been allotted to Her Majesty’s gaol, Lord Loftus is the first ex-Ambassador tha has ever “ gone up the spout.”

The Imperial Government have made arrangements with the P. and O. Company under which the company put the Victoria the Britannia and the Oceana at the disport of the Admiralty for service as armed cruisers >r transports whenever required.

A little boy in East Nashville hea d hie sister say that Ad un was the fir. t man, and when he was asked who was the first woman replied," Adam’s mother.”

William McDiarmid ia probably the oldest printer in the United States. He was bom in Edinburgh in 1792, and helped to “ et up" Walter Scott’s Novels from the < rivinsl manuscript.