BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 231, 6 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Good morning. Black v. Green—a draw. What has become of the J Battery ? Sterling John Bright is still at Deadi’e door. Good news—Wool market brisk and prices firm. The new opera at Wellington is completed. Mcllwraith has been replaced by another noodle. Jimmy Scott always likes a “ draw ” —at the gates. An organ in a New York Church is blown by electricity. Fire enquiry yesterday—rats exonerated by the evidence I This week’s weather—mid-winter, midsummer, and spring. Latest definition of Melbourne boom—dash, splash, crash, smash. It has been decided to close the Melbourne Exhibition on January 31. Not a single nomination was received for the Mayoralty of Riverton. Latest atrocity—The Maoris did not succeed in Dublin up Trinity College. Waipawa Exhibition opened yesterday—throws Gisborne in the shade. There is a small decline in the price of oats owing to the rams in Australia. The Waiwera Hofei and Sanatorium have been sold to a Melbourne syndicate.

It is said that the popular Sir Herky Robinbon is to be raised to tne peerage. There was not a single dea’h from euicide in New Z-aland for the month of October. It very seldom happens that, a lawyer’a charges are bordering on the fee-nominal. The Fisk Jubilee Singers are making a fresh tour of New Zealand. They are now down South. A 11-year-old Parisian youngster last w . murdered another child in the most dt*hb 'sat--manner. There was a good deal of betting on the last Maori Irish football match—Scott’s crew in favor. Harbor Board becoming the model body—last meeting quite businesslike aud occupied only an hour. Only two violent deaths occurred in New Z-aland in October—two children burnt to death at Dunedin. A Chinaman at Port Darwin bears the Hom wuat euphonious name of Hung Young. H« should be hung young, Tne shorthand record of evidence taken in the Parnell Commission amoauta to six hundred foolscap folios daily. Two juveniles at Christchurch knocked another boy down and robbed him of £l, They were sent to ar Industrial Home. Prime mutton for sale,—Apply to Sergeant Bullen, who has received an appointment aa shepherd of a small flock of sheep. A sad lookout for the newspapers—Fears are entertained that Emperor William’s tar affection may develop into cancer. A Mil bourne stock jobber and Bank clerk have been arrested for frauds on the Commercial Bank amounting to £B,OOO. The larrikins who deface the papers on the Standard hoarding had better take heed of a mild warning, or—the consequences. Lord Calthorpe’s Seabreeze, as a two-year-

old, won £4142 in stakes, and this year the fl.ly has taken £19.697 —a total of £23.839. Sergeam. James Dalton, originator of the term “larrikin,” died at the Royal Park Station, Victoria, of which he was in charge. The American teams of baseball players, who are vi-xung the Australian colonies, will arrive in Auckland by the Aiamcda on Saturday.

The progeny of Musket secured the lion’s share of the puze money at the recent C.J.C Meeting, winning, £2636 out of the £5865 disbursed. An Otahuhu produce merchant has been asked to fill an order for 3JOO sacks of chaff for Sydney, and is working ins machines from daylight to dark. A freethinker is lecturing in Queensland on “ A Peep into Hell,” To illustrate his lecture he shows the audience pictures of the Northern Territory. The Au iitor-General refused to pass an item of £8 16s 6d, expended by Wellington City Council in photographs of the City, sent to Melbourne Exhibition. A Wairoa correspondent telegraphed that Mr Booth had made a good impression when on the Bencn there. Not a bad joke when you see it. Wui roa ? Two men were instantaneously killed, one fatally injured, and others seriously so, by the bursting of a boiler on board the steamer Albany, at Hamlin. Perth. Wojdward, a candidate for the Lincoln seat, says the totalisator is a machine invented by Old Nick, aud directly he got a chance fie would be down on it line a thousand of bricks, A Westport telegram states that three men, who got lost in the bush, were eight days without food excepting that they sustained life by eating a dog, which they killed. Two Timaru scamps, by way of a “joke,” tarred a horse, aud the broiling sun caused the animal’s back to blister badly. Result — one scoundrel escaped and the other was fined three pounds 1 The Press Association is sometimes very witty. A telegram, after stating that three men were without food for eight days, and delayed hunger by killing a dog, adeb that they suffered great privations. Tne Wellington Post suggests that Sir T. M’liwraith should be appoin.ed Governor of Queensland, and Sir S. Griffiths, who would Liien probably become Premier, would soon make things very warm for him.

In a suit for scandal in Chicago on e woman swore that another called her a thief, liar, hypocrite, swindler, tramp, robber, back-bite r, gossiper, gadder, sloven, slouch, lazy-bones, and profaner, and all in five minutes. The Wellington soft goods merchants aud boot manufacturers strongly protest against the appointment of Mr Shannon as soft goo is expert. Mr Shannon was appointed by the Government at a salary of £BOO per year. The Wanganui Cup winner, Dudu, was s u bin it led to auction recently at Christchurch, ana was knocked down at 160 guineas to the bid of Mr W. ProfiLt, but it is stated that he was acting on behalf of a patron of E, Cutt’s stable. The s'earner Bucephalus is taking another shipment of horses to Calcutta. Two hundred head will be shipped from Dunedin and We;? li igton and 100 from Lyttelton. The shipment will comprise a few thoroughbreds for racing. At the New Plymouth ironworks Thomas Kusden and his son were nearly suffocated by the gas in a charcoal kiln. The son tried to rescue the father, who had become uncoDscious down the hold. Both were saved after tome difficulty. It is stated that Son-of-a-Gun was walking lame before the New Zealand Cup race, the result of an injury to one of his fetlocks. The son of Anteros and Vivandiere ran such a tremendous race on three legs that some are inclined to think that he might almost have won he had gone to the post sound. A cruel joke.—A young couple strolled out to the end of the breakwater one night this weep, and a gallant ascent of the Hercules was made, the lady leaving her hat below for t-afety. A v/ag, gliding gently by, took posssasioQ of the hai Without being observed. After a fruitless search, the couple concluded the hat bad blown into the water, and the heartless joker let matters take their course.