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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 374, 25 March 1902, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

ss [Wellington Free Lanee.J Now Zealand Ms.H.R. have done something practical for the Empire. Out of seven members’ sons who wont to Africa, three have been killed and two wounded. Nothing in this vale of tears pays so well as beer. The will of the late Mr ed James Cohlan, a Ballarat brewer, has just 3Q been proved at £169,400. in According to a late Homo paper, m a friendly rivalry exists between the at English Monarch and his son, the Prince 10 of Wales, for the honour of being first to have King Dick for a guest. R On the Buapehu, en routo for ’■ Home, is a Napier musician aged 79, who to played the clarionette at the accession and ts coronation of Queen Victoria, and at the birth of the present King. Ho means to ■s play also at the King’s Coronation. At the Wellington Cycling Club’s rooms ■t 63 per day is now the average “takings” for billiards. Before the deadly swish of 2 tho celluloid ball was heard the average s was £l. “ Ping-Pong ” ought to receive - Rudyard’s immediate attention, f If the Wellington Peace and Humanity 1 Society (Limited) had their peaceful way, 1 about 300,000 Britishers would be now 1 floundering in the sea off Table Mountain, E with Oom Paul flogging tho stragglers in • with a “ sjambok.” 1 A Wellington district paper remarked E of Stipendiary Magistrate Hasclden’s ro- c cent accident “ that ho received no in- J

juries except that he had six or seven teeth knocked out.” Probably, the S.M. is satisfied it is injury enough. Still the harmless flour combine is waxing fatter, and less kind. Anothor 5s per ton on flour. How long, oh Dick, how long ? Pope Leo XIII. is the Grand Old Man of the Twentieth Century. Entered his ninety-third year on Sunday week with a light heart. Many a woman marries in the hope of having a lover, and discovers too late that she merely has a boarder who is most difficult to please. Thore was great demand for the hand and heart of a fascinating young barmaid in a city hotel, who got married the other day. Just fancy it, three proposals within forty-eight hours of the altar 1 Barnett and Grant, bookmakers, of Durifidin, make an income greater than the salary of the Governor. A few years back, Grant was a successful mile runner, and was in anything but affluent circumstances. A recent domestic trouble, in which a wealthy young married woman up North and an ex-’bus driver are the principle parties, will come before the Divorce Court shortly. Coronation sightseers from Wellington, who have been rather slow in making up

their minds, are now finding out they cannot book passages for love or money in P. and 0. or Orient liners. The members of the Trades and Labor Council must be qualifying for seats in the House. Some of tho remarks at a recent meeting would certainly do credit to the most vitriolic M.H.R. Southern J.P. justice is of a better brand than the Northern kind. A man who prodded a bullock with a pitchfork in Canterbury got a month’s “hard,” while the Northern horse-burner was fined 40s. Is there need for a colonial scale of justice '? Westralia claims the colonial record for short-lived Premiers—five in the last five months, viz., Forrest, Throssel, Leake, Morgans and Leake again. By the same token, New Zealand holds the record for the longest-lived Premier. What about King Dick—nine years Premier, and going stronger than ever ? A local bike dealer has written to Willy Schweigerhausen, the German journalist touring the world, offering him a present of a bike of his especial brand in return for a word from that gentleman that he has ridden none other but that kind. But you can’t get a German to stray from the path of rectitude like that. A.n impulsivo young woman, in quest of some lady friends freshly arrived by steamer, entered the dining-room of a stylish Wellington hotel one day this week, saw her friends at table, and rushed over and kissed each one of them.