BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 239, 25 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Christmas 1 Races to-morrow. Who’s turned informer ? Typhoid fever is increasing in Melbourne. Concert and hop at Ormond to-morrow night. The Russian war vessel Nayendik will visit Auckland shortly. A pedlar has been brutally murdered at Charters Towers (Q.) Read the programme of the Evening Stars —why not black diamonds ? Sunday was a real sample of what some may expect in the hereafter. Who’s the Gisborne ex-bankrupt cut it so grand in Auckland the other day ? At an early hour this morning Mr Baldwin was still in a precarious condition. Who committed suicide? Ask Captain Nicholas, of fast and favorite Waiapu. Mr and Mrs Laing arrived yesterday morning. Mrs Laing has greatly improved in health. It is computed that the docks of Liverpcol are capable of holding about 30,000 vessels of ordinary dimensions. At the Police Court yesterday T. Moody was charged with assaulting G, Worgan and was remanded till Thursday. “ Buff and Black ” thinks Leopold and Clogs are ths two best in the Auckland Cup, with Hilda to fill the other place. The Calcutta sweeps were prohibited last night. We do not like sweeps, but we do like manliness. Shame! We’ll see into it yet. How did the Waerenga a-hika people know about the sweeps last night when no others did? Sweeps? sweeps?—yes, sweeps, but singular number.

Christmas Eve passed off very spiritedly las night. The Garrison Band improved on the occasion by playing some pretty carols, anthems, and hymns. Mr Corfe, the retiring headmaster of Christ’s College, Christchurch, was presented with a gold watch by the masters, aad a silver egg boiler by the boys. At the annual meeting of the First Chui ch in Dunedin the Rev. J. Gibb said that only niue of the congregation were driven away' by the introduction of the organ. An Auckland wire states :—T. Barnett, perk butcher, died suddenly on Friday night, of heart disease. He was seized with severe pains while walking from his business, and died in a vehicle which he had haiie l to' assist him home. The decease! gentleman; was father of Mrs A. J. Cooper, of this town.