FLASHES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 10, 2 July 1887, Page 3

FLASHES

• The rain, it raineth every day. 1 W>nht give ns a rest now, surely we’ve' had ’ enough: AU Capt. Edwin’s fault. We must ‘‘put° hint list, he never will be I Prihees well received id Ireland. Who i are they J Sous of Halbert Hedwai'd, Prince , of Wales. Waler ought to go thete himself , with the Quecu aud spend 3 months it year ' there, , ... . i Pat will treat them well, If the Queen would give Balmoral a rest bad spend a . month at Klllatney, bless your soul, Hoyalty wil! be quite popular in the Emerald Isle. She hasn't been near the place for years. More libel suits, eh 1 Against the Times this time. The two D's Dillon and Donnell Soiug for the Thunderer. The Times has een very rough on the Parnellites of late, and it is only right that if it cannot stthstsn. tiate its assertions, it ought to out the leek. Royal rutions. King Milan of Servia having a squabble with his wife. He’s a poor vain creature, who was pitchforked on to a throne which he unworthily occupies. Do you remember that Servian-Bulgarian war. Bather! Why, Milan kept discreetly in the rear, whilst the Bulgarian Alexander waded in and exoited the admiration of Europe by his bravery, Milan’s wife is a queer stick, daughter Si a Brussian Prinoelet and a Montenegrin girl, who stands 6ft lin in her stocking feel, a poetess and all sorts of things. . Archibald Forbes gave a good account of her in one of hie books. She’s bolted “to the Crimea," a very vague expression by the way, and its odds upon Milan getting the sack from his subjects. Troubles brewing in that quarter of the world what with Milan and the new Bulgarian Prince, there’ll be a row before long. An amusing legal rencontre took place between Messrs Bees SHd DeLautour when the admissibility of Mr Waatney’s evidence was being discussed. Mr Bees remarked " Surely you're not going to try and prove that Mr Baldwin was runk from the 24th of November to the 16 til f the following March." To which Mr DeLautour replied " I should not like to guarantee Mr Baldwin's sobriety at any time," which, to say the least of it, was rather rough. The whole of the ironwork, 574 tons, for the recently opened Wingatu Viaduct, was m&dc by Messrs Sparrows, of Dunedin. Wellington footballers wore orape in the matches which were played last Saturday. This was in respect to poor Millton. The Imperial Institute foundation stone will be laid by Het Majesty on Monday next, July 4. Over 6,500 bobbies were on duty in the streets when the Boyal procession passed to the East End Palace. What a grand Tarantara chorus they could sing ! A Mataura (Otago) farmer named Chisholm, has inherited a Scotch estate with £4O 000 a year. He is now off Home, will join the Colonial Institute, become a K.C.M.G. and become an undistinguished Colonial. Pirongia meuntain is covered with snow half-way dowii. Auckland is to hdf® two R.M. s, the new one being the She,iff, find will act as an assistant magistrate. Mrs Henry George is a plOtnp demure little woman, who is devoted to he.* children.

Tauranga has got a Dowie of its’ own, a new tohunga having started to rake iff the offerings of the faithful. Dr. Wright, the victim of the recent gross criminal conspiracy in Sydney, is to raoeive a purse of sovereigns from his brother mediccos.

Henry George says in his new paper The Citizen, that "God never undertook to furnish the labourer with an employer to set him to work.”

Whereupon a witty Yankee print retorts “ God never set but one man to work, and that was Adam, and Adam struck before the first crop sprouted.” Very good ! The ranks of the Sydney unemployed include 224 New Zealand Colonists. Cutting down the screws! Auckland headmasters getting above that sum are to be reduced to £4OO per annum. By the way, Ballance said the other day that the average screw of a N.Z. teacher is about £9B a year. We know some country teachers who only get £4O, and married men, too I

Laing, the Wanganui half-caste, put the Wellingtonian Cunningham through in 17 rounds the other day. Violet McPhee, for arson in Victoria Street, Auckland, has gone to the sweet seclusion of Mount Eden Gaol for three years. The Mikado Company did so well in Auckland during their stay, that before they left they handed over a cheque for 10 guineas to the local Benevolent Society. The Patea Mail says the Wanganui Exhibition is a very poor affair. So is the Patea Mail! Dunedin Protectionists intend issuing a daily paper of their own during the elections. Some one will drop money on it. Says the Canterbury Press ; “ The Premier is not very happy in his manifesto to the constituents, and we think we can detect in its language a certain dissatisfaction with himselL Mr Allan McLean of North Waitaki has jiven £lO,O to the Christchurch Jubilee Memorial.

The Premier objected very much to the public criticism of the N.Z. Press, upon which Hr Wakefield's paper says ” Perhaps there is no more striking feature of N.Z. Liberalism than it'i deadly antipathy to the liberty of the press.” The Taranaki News states that steam is frequently seen ascending from Mount Ruapehu, The crater at White Island being active the other day Tauranga people ware fumigated with sulphurous vapours blown across the Bay of Plenty.