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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 77, 8 December 1887, Page 2

The Melbourne Age urges the adoption ot the name of Sydney as an appropriate change from New South Wales. The famous American boxer. Jack Burke will not meet Professor Jackson, the champion of Australia owing to his being a coloured man. The wife of Mr George Tindall, butcher, of Pontefract, was found dead m der bedroom with her head nearly cut off. The woman had been grieving for the death of her child. Mlle. Campos, the heroine of the recent elopement in the Ave de Boulogne, has returned to Paris. She has not married her lover, Mielrague, alias Garbouft and it is said that the marriage will not take place. The number of beggars in Russia is on the increase; in seventy-one districts 300,000 tra > eported, 182,000 being peasant proprietors.

1 he following was a New Haven colony law in 1689 : “ Whoever shall inveigle or draw th • affections of any maide or maide-servant eith' r to himself or others, without first gainng the consent of her parents shall pay to the plantation tor the first offence 40s, th • the second £4, for the third shall be imprisoned or coporeously punished.” An old reeo'd h a just been found showing that under thi law Jacobeth Marline and Surah Tuttle got into trouble by “setting d >wn on a chestle together, bis sons around hTwaiste and her arine upon his shoulder or about hit u ck, and continuing in that sinful pasture about half-an-hour, in which time he kissed her, or they kissed one another, as yc witnesses testified.”