FLASHES

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

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Fine weather at last. Hurrah 1 Ch i el ‘ tO - ni « ht for ‘h® iMt tilde; Ch J orar So drty? b6Uß tM Sydney legislators have passed the Pavl meat of Members Bill, They have long Bellamy’s, but had in the past their own money there. Now the countrv will find the dibs. the ooun ‘a , y Seems funny that Sonth Australia with an enormous defioit should be squau.lerine money upon an exhibition, 8 Melbourne has one next year, a useless price of lenseless extravagance. One geti sick of the very name of an. exhibition. An English Cyclist Volunteer corps |a to be formed. The Salvation Army here in Gisborne mutt pity the case of an unfortunate Hebrew who was ejected from an East End Synagogue for " praying too loudly," John Smith, a Cardiff young man oom* milted suicide on hit wedding morn. Of two evils choose the lesser. Lieutenant-Colonel Figmore, who died recently, fought as a middy at the Battle of Trafalgar,

The Queen mnst have been very fond of Beaconsfield, for every Primrose Day a wreath of primroses is placed by her dbdet on Dizzy’s grave, Mrs Malaprop, of Sydney, excused het husband from attending a certain dinner> “My dear,” she said to the hostess, “I am very sorry to say that the poor fellow is very decomposed this evening.” ,®Bg’hellent" joke (says the Naval and Mihtary Gazette) was perpetrated by the Sirdar oi Canduhar upon some English visitors who were proud of their marktnan* ship. He made them shoot at a hen’s egg hung against a wall, it baffled their aim until the thread was cut, and the Qgg fell to the ground without breaking. They then found that the shell was blown, and the wind the bullets had saved it from being struck; The ex-Empress Eugenie, after the removal ot the remains of her husband and son from ChislehmstJjo her new mausoleum at Farnborough will most likely visit America. Mr Kerr is to oppose Mr Hursthouse foV the new Motueka seat. Mr Kerr is a Government supporter and Mr Hursthouse one of last session's “rats."

Mr J. P. Campbell, the United States Consul in Auckland, speaking at the Jubilee banquet, said that any man “ought to be proud to pull off his hat and stand uncovered in presence of John Bnll'e Queen.” YVoodroffe’s Glass blowers are said to have cleared out of the colony with £5OOO to the good, and these are hard times I A Rockhampton telegram states that Trickett intends to go into active training, and to compete with the crack oarsmen of the world, whom he will challenge to row on the Fitzroy River. Earl “Gumboil" Cairns has left Sydney homeward bound, " Fla never will be missed.” ® lder “ one of the new K.C.M.G s.

Mr Libouohere, M.P., speaking at Cardiff upon the Crimes Bill, said that in Ireland most of the agrarian crime consisted of threatening letters, and he had himself received more threatening letters thnthe whole of Ireland: Labby edits —Truth. London Society papers like to have a joke at the expense of “representative Australiaus.” Here is the latest Wife of a representative Australian at her first grand dinner 1 . The Colonel offers his arm. •! am to have the pleasure of taking you down to dinner, Mrs A., Representative Australian lady : ‘Go 'long with you j my husband is here ; take your own wife down.’ Mr Ballance speaks at Auckland next week. He is sure to have a good reception, Says the Dunedin Star .—When the Premier takes his walks abroad ho costs the country £ll 8s 6d a day, his salary included. What a suffering patriot he is to be sure 1

Good for the Napier News ! The cold in the Napier Court-house is as dense a* the famous darkness in Egypt—it can be felt I To which we would add that lawyers should never complain of the cold—they’ll have plenty of heat ia the next world. Napier telephone subscribers ere nearly up to the century—9s. The Queen has ordered a bust of Lord Iddesleigh. George P. Robinson was the nemo of • boy who lighted a train of powder at Birmingham lately. There was a largo funeral;