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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 18, 23 July 1887, Page 2

The football match between the Second Fifteens takes place to-day, should the weather permit. A circular entitled the " Liberal Party Pro. gramme ” was handed round to members at the County Counoil meeting on Thursday. One member wanted to know who the Liberal Party were. In the return cricket match, Players v. Gentlemen, in England, the latter were defeated by one innings and sixteen rune. £20,000 was recently offered and refused for the English race horse Bendigo. “0, Professor," exclaimed sentimental old Mrs Fishwacker, during a private organ recital in her new music-room, “ do pull out that sweet nux vomioa stop once more." At a wedding, when the officiating priest put to the lady the question, “Wilt thou nave this man to be thy wedded husband?" she dropped the prettiest ourtesy and, with a modesty which lent her beauty an additional grace, replied," If you please.” An Irishwoman, having been nearly drowned by falling into a well, oommited a very rich bull when she thankfully declared that only for Providence and another woman she never would have got out. We knew a schoolboy whose one gustatory passion was cheese. Once being possessed of a spare half-crown, he bought an enormous lump of Gruyere, and attacked it in the solitude of his chamber, aud ate until he could eat no more. He has arrived now at man’s estate, that sohooboy, and his youthful feast was enjoyed years aud years ago ; but if you show him Gruyere at this day you almost drive him from the table. He ate enough to last him for his life time. A Scotchman, having hired himself to a farmer, had a cheese set down before him that he might help himself. “ Saunders," said his master, “ you take a long time to breakfast.” “ Ay, master,” answered he, “ a cheese 0’ this size is nae sae soon eaten as ye may think.” A tailor sent his bill to a lawyer for money. The lawyer bade the boy tell his master he was not running away, but very busy at the time. The boy comes back and tells him that he must have the money. “Did you tell your master,” said the lawyer, “that I was not running away ?” “Yes, sir, answered the boy, “but he bade me tell you that he was.”

Dr Hodgkinson, of Riverton, has sent the following cummunication from a London firm largely engaged in butter and cheese: —“ New Zealand Cheddar shape, straw colour, fine in quality, and of 60 to 70lb weight. They should be packed in cases containing two or three cheeses each, flat (upright not being so manageable), with space left between the boards, and partitions between each cheese. Butter should be of a fine quality, freshly made at time of shipment, primrose colour, containing 4 per cent, of salt, packed in casks containing either about 50 or LOOlb weight, the casks to bo made of some non-smelling wood.