LANGE ITEMS

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1425, 8 April 1905, Page 3

LANGE ITEMS

A lady orobnrdist at Pioton put to flight a lot of applo-atoalora with a revolver. It ia a tnoroy tho lady didn’t hold the 1 gun by tho wrong and. It ia more or loas gratifying that tho lovo of rnusio ia growing in the police force. Tho lute seems to bo a favonto instrument in a Southern city. i Foreigners of various European brands are so plentiful on tho Northern Wairoa ; that it is suggested Dargaville ought to bo re-obriatiaued Dagoville. _ A man was charged at Ohriatonurch last week with forgory. Ho {protested his inability to sign his own name. But, ho wasn’t charged with writing his own name. Duffy, tho American Bprinter, says tho . local men know liltlo about “ the art of starting as it is practised in America. I The art seems to consist in beating the starter by yards every time. A country paper up tho line, reporting a St. Patrick’s night oonoort, has improved upon Tom Moore's melody, “ Silent O Moyle. It gave a more Hibernian look as “ Silent O’Moyle.” ' Tho very willing “go ” between Manawatu A and Hawke’s Bay last week was the finest exhibition game of polo yet aoen in Wellington. Phil Nathan, no mean judge, says he hasn’t seen finer polo even in India. . ■ At a recent singing contest, the judge complimented a man on tho possession of a voice whioh was “ a happy compromise between a disappointed nutmeg grater and a frog with the quinßy.” He has a grea’ future before him

The persistent mutiny of prisoners in Northern gaols and the inability of the ! authorities to handle them seem to point to some weak spot in gaol discipline. If some of these convicts don’t get what they want, they’ll be leaving the gaols yet. . W. J. Hunt’s attempts to rouse up the Wellington clergy to stop the war are causing Japan and Kussia to go a bit slower. Tho other day, when the Governor left Dunedin by train, there was not a single person, either offioial or otherwise, to see him off. You see, his name is not Seddon.