BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 235, 15 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Lochnagar arrived. Coming — Christmas. Garrison Band out to-night. Weather to suit everybody—and nobody. The Bishop of Waiapu has returned to New Zealand. Acceptances for Boxing Day races must be in to-night. A truant school has been established at Port Adelaide. Tho Russian loan was unsuccessful in London and Berlin. The Annual Rose Show at Christchurch commenced yesterday. Chicago Anarchists blew up Schurieldt’s distillery with dynamite. The last session of the Timaru Court lasted from 11 a.m. until 2.30 p.m. I The Governor has now decided to visit Auckland during the race week. Sympathisers in Sandhurst have subscribed £250 to the Parnell Defence Fund. Our Napier correspondent telegraphs that Mr John Baldwin has been released. Tenders required for fencing 6 acres, Kaiti, labor only—advertisement elsewhere. Over twenty workmen who recently went to Australia’returned by the Tarawera. The energetic Wesleyan pastor, Rev Mr Ward, makes a trip North to-morrow. The Gisborne Public School broke up on Thursday afternoon for the summer vacation. Rev Mr Wallace last night bade Gisborne farewell. May he be successful in his new sphere. It is expected that all the Ministers will assemble in Wellington about the 20th instant. The annual meeting of the South Pacific Petroleum Company has been adjourned for four weeks. King Milan describes his wife as one who occasionally behaves “ like a wild oat at a tea-table.” For her action in reference to the proposed interprovincial band contest has been nut off until January,

The New Zealand Meat and Storage Company are carrying on the war with the butcher. withjvigor. Times looking up for dairy farmers—thme pence per gallon for milk now given by the Matawhero factory.

The Sydney lumpers refusa to work the Alameda unless ths Chinese portion of ths crew is discharged. A portrait and biographical sketch of Joe Warbrielt appears in a lata number of tha Magazine of Sport.

Two Bengali ladies have passed for first M.B. at the Calcutta Medical College, one of them heading the list.

Orlando Gorringe, an old and respected settler, died suddenly at Fernridge, Wellington, on Tuesday evening. A 9in gun, weighing 15 tons, arrived in Wellington on Monday by the ship Invercar* gill, for the defence works.

B. Petter, saddler, Otaki, has issued a writ against Constable Carr, claiming £2OO damages for false imprisonment.

Christchurch champion fours, who competed in the inter colonial four oared race, were on the Tarawera bound South.

Upwards of 200 tons of potatoes have been shipped this season for the South from the Mauukau alone. Gisborne ! Gisborne 1

The Victorian Loan Bill, in which pro vision is made for the borrowing of four mil lions next year, bas passed both Houses.

The Maori footballers have now played in 30 matches—Won 19, lost 8, drawn 3. Score, for—3B goals 51 tries ; against—l 4 goals 25 tries.

On the last trip of the Zillah up the coast one of her boats while returning to the vessel with a load of wool capsized. The wool was recovered.

The Napier Harbor Board has accepted tho tender of Allison and Black, Dencditi, for the continuation of the breakwater. The amount is £20,600.

It is understood that the posfmaster and telegraphist at Otahuhu station, Mr S. Logan, has received instructions to proceed to Mohaka, Hawke’s Bay. Mr W. Duncan was a passenger from Audk land'*to Waipiro by the Maitai, in order to look after the estate of his relative, Mis Pook, murdered there. An Early Rising Club has been formed in Paris, and it is said the seedy customers who spend so much of their time in other clubs will be greatly benefited by it. Our contemporary announced last night that ths four men first arrested at Waipiro had been released ; for same information see Tuesday's Standard extra—only four days in advance 1

The trosscau of the future Empress of China and the festivities in honor of the marriage are to cost £1,250,000, three-fourths of which cost has to be paid from the general State fund.

“ Great Britain’s Downfall ” is a subject which is troubling our Tory contemporary. We would advise them to trim their sails, aud slick up for the Russians, and there’ll be a fat billet sticking out when the downfall comes.

If the generality of lawyers are bad what must the people be who tell so many lies about them ? Here is the latest: —A yacht containing a party of lawyers was recently capsized among a school of sharks. Total deaths—4 lawyers, eharks.

A young man named Smith, aged 21 (of Hamilton, Victoria), presented a revolver at hie mother, and pulled the trigger. Unknown to him the revolver was loaded, the result being that the poor woman was shot through the temple, and fell down, a corpse. Some good records wore made at St Andrew’s Caledonian Gathering, at Christchurch, the other day. The high jump was won by R. Shule, who cleared sft 7in. The vaulting of the - pole contest was won by Cameron, who cleared lOit fiinches.