FLASHES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 16 July 1887, Page 3

FLASHES.

Tauranga is to have a Y.M.C.A. 350 sovereigns were struck at the Sydney Mint on Jubilee Day from a new die. From 85s. each is now being paid for them. The small bird nuisance is getting intolerable at Hastings, Hawkes Bay. The reported outbreak of foot and mouth disease in tue Wairarapa district is denied. The Commissary General of the British forces in India is shortly to send an order to Australia for 300,0001bs of preserved meat. If satisfaction be given all the orders are to ooms to Australia and New Zealand instead of going to Chicago. One of the Government’s Native Agents received £2700 for six months’ work. Not so bad. The Biverton Harbor Board are in a sad Blight. They owe £3OO, and have only £lOO m hand. They want to resign, but the Marine Department refuse to accept. To prevent "filing” they are to ask a full meeting to f'seolve the body. At Flinders-street station alone on Jubilee less than 36,562 persons purchased An Opotiki parson tried to get Te Kooti to don the blue ribbon the other day, but the attractions of colonial swipes are still too strong for the old ravage to swear off. The Parihaka natives are suffering terribly from the measles. Parihaka is such a filthy settlement that the or'y wonder is that some outbreak of disease has not swept away all he natives long before this. Lieutenant McCartney has accepted the position of Captain of the Napier Artillery Volunteers. There ts great disMtisfaction at the postponement of the Wellington Races for a week. As the Evening Post says ; ”To detain 20 or 80 valuable racehorses, with owners, trainers, and jockeys a whole week longer than their arrangements are made for, just on the chance of getting £BO or so more gate money, is unworthy of a Metropolitan Club." Hear! Hearl The Wanganui Exhibition ie doing very we!'. Six hundred pounds have been taken already. A'l the rest will be profit. General Mite and the Circassian Youth are doing a booming biz amongst the Hawkes Bay yokels. the s.s. Rtormbird recently took five days to do the trip (90 miles) between Wanganui and Wellington. No wonder passengers prefer the Manawatu Bailway. Napier Orangemen celebrated the glorious 12th of July by a big feed and a dance. The speeches as reported in the Napier papers were rather weak.