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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 211, 20 October 1888, Page 3

Several important changes in the Salisbury Ministry are said to be pending, and will probably include Mr XV H Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, and the Home Secretary, Mr Matthews. On the Bth September Richard Morgan obtained a concession from the Crown to work a tract of 59 square miles in the County Wicklow for gold. He believes gold reefs Srqu under ihe channel from Wales. A Germam nt med Ludwick was arrested on suspicion, on 11th September, of being the perpetrator of the recent Whitechapel morOOH. He had threatened a fallen woman in Whitechapel with a long knife. In his pocket were found a razor and a pair of Scissors. He cannot speak English, and had only been in the country three months, Another arrest was made on the 18th According to a Palmerston youth who is engaged on the survey work up in Taranaki, 11 the only living the Taranaki farmers depend upon is gathering fungus. You will see them fathering fungus all day long. “

A gentleman who has considerable knowledge on the oubject informs the North Otago Times that the recent rise in the price of Wheat represents an additional £30,000 to the farmers of the district. As the wheat was mostly in farmers’ hands they will receive the direct benefit. If (asks the Otago Daily Times) In wheat alone there is a clear gain of £30,000, what additional sum can be added for the rise in the prices of other products—such as dairy produce, other cereals, frozen meat, wool, potatoes, Ac. ? The other day, at Wanganui, a youth of the name of Thimas Perry was found guilty Of **? ‘b* ll but the jury recom-