FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 64, 8 November 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

N.Z. Cup to-day I Starters show up very poorly I Spade Guinea beat the record last year I Pickwiokers Coming out gay to-mdrrow I The sogers to be, there iri.fuli fdrog—tbft Hussars, Battery; and Oadets I Going to take their guns and hosses with 'em, too—work with pleasure, ohaw up their enemies first, end frivolities afterwards I Times getting dull when we can't sport races—one time no holiday passed without some hack get-up, at any rate, and holiday) Were made fur them I It's Just as well—when we have races they &re all the better for being good, that*) under, stood, and the spring end annual meets and A Boxing-day meat are quite enough I " Engaged " to-morrow night I Who, the editor ?, else—all loyal subjects at the Theatre Royal, 8 sharp to morrow evening 1 , A lesson to be gained as well as pleasure Leap year is at hand 1 Native lands question coming up again! Nothing like agitation! When's the name of the Bay to be put on ? Taking good advice, we suppose I An Auckland paper says Captain Winter has a voice like a speaking trumpet I Hawaii has ceded Pearl Biver harbour to America. Lord Loftus has been allowed until the Sth inst, to fi e statement of his estate. New Zealand stocks have declined come; quent upon Major Atkinson’s Financial Statement. Bank of New Zealand shares are quoted at £l6 in London. Belgium has already nominated the Bel. glans to represent that country at the Sugar Bounties Conference. Various Protection Socitles have decided to endeavour to amalgamate, and have resolved to urge the Government to reconsider and alter their fiscal policy; The Porte wishes eertain modifications In the Suez Canal OonvSritioni Italy, Germany, and Austria are satisfied with the convention and will accept it in its entirety;

The Invincibles are likely to havs a split in their camp. The congress at Brussels have rejected ths programme of the active section. The Sugar Bounties Conference will meet on the 24th inst., in London. Shaw and Lillywhite's team beat Parramatta by 124 runs on the 4th Inst. The Victorian Government have resolved to establish a lifeboat station at the Pert Philip Heads. Out of evil cometh good I Heavy tains in Melbourne, Flemingtdii course is soaked. Direct steam communication has been established between Australia and New Zealand. More Nihilist plots discovered in Bussia; Means more Nihilists sent to Siberia. Foot Devils I Petitions in course of circulation in Southland asking the member for Wallace to oppose Seddon's Gold Duty Abolition Bill. A young man named Henderson got a month’s hard labour for punching a man. Henderson had no provocation. The bully ought to have received a year at the very least. The German Emperor is slowly recovering from his indispositions The rise in tin continues. The quotation in London is now £ll6 10s. At a court-martial held on board H.M.B. Nelson last month three sailors were sentenced to 12 months, two years, and eighteen months respectively, for assault. For selling bread under weight a Sydney baker has been fined £24 and costs. A Sydney solicitor has been suspended from practice until charges brought against him have been enquired into. Sir Henry Parkes is about to bring id g bill to extend the franchise to women. He claims that in all matters of sobriety, treatment of the juvenile offenders, and the education of the rising generation, their vote woo d be sounder and more patriotic than that of men. In the Victorian Supreme Coart a store; man, named Towne, got £lOOO damages against the railway commissioner in connection with the Windsor accident, A Church of England minister in Sydney objects to the selling of cigarettes the packet) of which are labelled with pictures of tightly dressed woman. He says nothing of the loosely dressed women one sees at balls I In the New South Wales Police Court a Sroseoutor swore he could take 60 drinks a ay without feeling any ill effect. Over in Australia this is considered hot; rible, but to Gisborne people it will appear aS nothing, knowing as we do, where to lay our hands on five or six who could drink 100 and feel no 111 effect, The Tichborne claimant is now a barman in New York. He draws well—beer. The other day in Marlborough the larrikins pelted the body of a drowning man in mis. take for a shark. When banted ashore it was found to be the corpse of a lawyer. In early life George Agustu) Sala was In business as a pill-maker. They cleared hint oat! Miss Braddon has published her fiftieth novel. An English lord has found employment as a writer on the staff of the Melbourne Herald. He probably has not got as much brains a) the printers devil, but people will road any rot which a real live lord has anything to do with. During tha hearing ota oasa in New South Wales the judge ordered all decent people to leave the Court, Only the prisoner tried to depart, bat be was not let I Bishop Barry, Sydney, said he never gave money away without enquiry. The Bulletin very significantly says he gave £lO to Parkes, tha bankrupt Premier.

Dr Fitchett, editor of the Melbourne D lily Telegraph, who lectured against horse-racing and gambling the other day, has working alongside of him the sporting editor, who is one of the bast tipsters in Australia. During a recent debate m the Victorian Parliament on the subject of compulsory vaccination, L. L. Smith said he was " speaking for 13,000 mothers." Mr John Gavan Duffy i “ Have the husbands no voice in the matter ?” This will repay careful consideration. The young New Zealand party have celebrated their political birth by a banquet at Bellamy’s. The Press says:—•• Judging from the loquacity of some of the party, as already demonstrated in the House, it is expected that the mutual admiration part of the banquet will be prolonged until exhaustion supervenes.” It has been decided to charge an extra three-pence for a brandy and soda at Bellamy’s. The charge now ia nine-pence. Members will probably alip out to the ••Oril" At a meeting of a school committee at Dunedin last week two members came io blows. There was high jinks. The stoats and weasels lost at Christchurch the other day, were valued at £165. The bonue of £15,060, to commenoe the Patea meat tinning works, has been subscribed, and the industry is secured. A man digging in a garden at Bisbane unearthed a gold nugget weighing 86oza IGJwt and 21grs. Captain Seales, of the Heretaunga Light Horse, was sued at Wellington for £lO, value of decorations lent and not returned in connection with a ball, but the plaintiff, Boyd, was nonsuited. A Wellington paper has a rhyme on Beeves, M.H.R., commencing:— “ That political puppet W. Raevs)—” The Wellington butchers are going in for sports. A prize is to ba given for the •• best dressed horse.” Don’t smile —the horse must be a live one ! The city of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, ia celebrated for its beautiful women, the descendants of European who have intermarried with Greek and J-wish Wvmco.