BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 240, 29 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Mr John Bright is again in a precarious condition, having had a serious relapse, Christmas Day was the hottest day ever experienced in Adelaide. The trial of the Medea, one of the colonial cruisers, proved a failure. A floral service was held at Wanganui last Sunday by the Salvation Army. The first crop from a five acre potato patch at Onehunga this season realised £4OO. Mr J. Mogridge, well-known in Gisborne, is the Treasurer of the Waipawa Exhibition. The Maori footballers beat Newport by three tries four points to two minor points. The late Mrs Gillies (mother of Justice Gillies) left £5OO to Knox Church, Dunedin. The grass seed season has brought a large number of natives on to the flats near Gisborne. During November there were 22 wet days in Auckland, 20 in Wellington, and 18 in Dunedin. The Auckland Frozen Meat Company has now entered fully on the retail butchering business. The New Zealand Educational Institute will commence its session in Wellington on January 3rd. It is doubtful if Edison’s new talking machine will ever supersede the old reliable sewing societies. Why did our contemporary omit any reference to the death of Mr Baldwin ? Not even two lines—“ a queer world, my masters.” The Taranaki farmers are very jubilant, their butter being taken from them at remunerative prices as fast as they can manufacture it.

The natives say that Haira, the suspected Pook murderer, was in the habit of shooting cattle and pigs and then using his knife upon them and drinking the blood, Paul Foucher, a nephew of Victor Hugo and a journalist, has offered himself to M. Pasteur as a subject for a decisive experiment on vaccination against Asiatic cholera.

The Queen of England sends every trivial communication, whether of a personal or a irivate nature, by|a Queen’s messenger. She 8 the only European sovereign who does this.

The fastest armed cruiser in the world is said to be the German Grief, with 2,000 tons displacement and 5,500 indicated horsepower. She makes twenty-three knots per hour.

The final heat of the Napier Rowing Club’s i’unior pairs was rowed last Saturday between jyndon and Hughes and E. Crowley and Tylee. The former won a good race by threequarters of a length. It is stated that the Waipawa ladies threatened to boycott the tradesmen of that place because on account oi bard times the latter had proposed to discontinue giving the usual Christmas boxes to customers. Mr j; T, Matson say a that he invested for a client in England £4OO in Christchurch city properties 81 years ago, and since then be has remitted in principal and interest £69.823, and he has over £lO,OOO yet to realise. The third of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis* Association opened at Napier on Wednesday. The chief towns in ths colony, with the exception of Auckland, are well represented. A correspondent telegraphed before the Auckland Gup race: —The general opinion is that the finish for the Cup will be fought out between L&chiel, Nelson, and Manton, and the two first-named have most friends. Hilda has gone back to 100 to 12. Lochiel is still the favorite. N$W3 telegraphed from Havelock on Monday states :—Over £lOO was obtained at Mahakipawa by Gregg and party, over £3O by Pope and party, and over £4O by Sohenkel and party during the past week. Gregg's party is five in number, Pope's four, and Sghtakwi four.)