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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 13, 9 July 1887, Page 2

A contemporary has the following :—" The Glasgow Corporation is spending £10,121 for a staircase in the Town Hall. It will be made of veined marble and alabaster. When colonial ratepayers feel inclined to grumble at municipal extravagance, let them think of Glasgow and be thankful.” The Tauranga Acclimatisation Society have just obtained a white phantom buck deer, which is very rare and valuable. It was captured by some natives in a river running through a ravine in the district, and is about seven years old, and pure white. The society have been recommended never to part with it, as it is an omen of good luck Says the Evening News: Mr Sutton perpe-’ trated a prize bull in the coursr of his speech last evening—a Hereford, whose horns reached the ribs of every one present. Speaking of taxation, he said, -• You cannot collect taxes from a naked man. “ You must take it from something he has in his pocket.” The audience began to simmer at once and in ten seconds were in a violent ebullition of laughter, while the perpetrator rwung round on his heel and retreated to the back of the stage to mentally box his own ears. Returning to the front he fairly bogge 1 the bull and caused more laughter by explaining, " You must take it from something he has in hh possesion—if he has anything.” j