BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 236, 18 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Sir Thomas Mollwraith has gone on a visit to China. A partially paid volunteer company is likely to be formed at Parramatta. An Italian was suffocated in an old well near Dubbo, whtch he had descended to clean out. It is stated that a four-oar crew from the Balmain Working Men’s Club met the Victorian champion fours, and beat them by four lengths. In Sydney sailors for the oversea voyage to Rondon are asking £8 per month wages. Several ships are detained for want of hands. Several thousand sheep died at Gundagai (N.S.W.) recently from anthrax. The cause of death was at first thought to be from, eating some kind of thistle. An Auckland paper concludes a report of a meeting ©f the Caledonian Society—“ God Save the Queen and Auld Lang Syne brought the party to a most successful finish.” Quite a novelty in the way of Christmas stalls was introduced in connection with the United Methodist Free Church, Auckland. It consisted of a stall, all the articles on which are contributed by gentlemen, and, for the greater part, their own handiwork. A Home correspondent writes of Parnell If he is as thorough a rascal as the Times people wish to make him out to be, he certainly seems to bear the burden of his guilt very easily. A more cheerful, confident looking ‘ criminal ’ I never saw.

An anti-poverty society has been established in Cambridge. We have already a good many of such societies in Gisborne, but unfortunately they are run individually, for where care is taken that the individual never runs short of funds equal care is taken that the tradesman is not paid—therefore there is poverty and anti-poverty. The ketch Zillah sailed for the Coast yesterday afternoon for a load of wool. The Lochnagar commenced discharging cargo yesterday and should the weather continue favorable the vessel will taking in wool at the latter end of this week.

The Garrison Band enlivened the town on Saturday evening by discoursing some excellent music in Peel Street.