FLASHES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 4, 16 June 1887, Page 3

FLASHES.

Bravo for Stagpoole and Co. I Honor to the brave I Yes, but don’t forget the unfortunate victims. Who will start a subscription for the victims 7 Subscriptions received at the Standard office. Read •' gtagpoolo’s Story "—it reads like a romance. The Standard has the full account this morning. Special from Tologa—give us credit for our enterprise I Once more we say—Compare the two papers! Material for the Midland Railway still keeps pouring into Greymouth, Southland County Council are reducing all official salaries ten per cent, Dunedin papers say that £623 has been collected towards the Macandrew memorial. Police annual report says there are now 502 men in the force as against 496 last year. Proportion of police to population, one in 1265. In Victoria it is one in 774. Cost per head in New Zealand, 3s 2Jd. Mr Janies Sidey has been appointed D.O.A for Hawkes Bay district. Mr Bracken, M.H.R., will lecture on the Queen's Jubilee on Monday next at the Wellington theatre. John Duthie, the well known ironmonger, will, it is stated, be a candidate for Te Aro. Ballance will not stand for Newton. Mr Croker, rabbit inspector at Ivanhoe, New South Wales, recently attempted his life while in a fit of depression. Came near being a' 1 croaker ”, eh! Suppose he was depressed because of the persistent increase of the rabbits ! " Civis " in the " Otago Witness ” makes a lot of candid remarks in connection with the Burns statute ceremony at Dunedin. Well, what says the good natured friends? Oh, that the arrangements were “ execrable,” the procession was •’ shabby,” enthusiasm was nowhere, and when Sir George Grey began his ” florid oration,” the crowd rapidly melted away ! He adds —" The Burns banquet provided a fitting finish to a memorable day. It terminated in a saturnalia that would have gladdened the heart of Rabbie himself in his grosser moments.” Mrs Gubbius says she never allows her boy Jim to eat any jam, for her husband died of the jimjams, and she don’t purpose to run any chances with the boy. A tussle with a boarding house steak is now called a 11 bull-fight.” An Industrial Protection Association is being formed in Wellington. Judge Wilson, of Tauranga, lately received an order for a hundred tons of sulphur from White Island. Big feeding is going on at Parihaka. Te Whiti still continues very 11 pouri ” with his Pakeha visitors.” A hangman’s son has just been sentenced to death in Queensland. Shows that all the scapegraces are not parsons’ sons, as some people would have us believe. A Chinaman named Mong Kee had a narrow escape from drowning in Wellington harbour last week. Poor chap ! Monkees are not usually ready to take to the water ! Thames Debating Society has been debating the question—" Does Mining Pay ?” And I suppose they came to the conclusion that it does on Auckland Stock Exchange, but not in the mines at Thames ! Mr Anderson, formerly of Auckland Grammar School, is now Inspector of Schools in British Columbia. The Levant Herald asserts that Russia has 300,000 soldiers concentrated in Central Asia, and is all ready for a march upon Afghanistan.