FLASHES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 11 August 1887, Page 2

FLASHES.

" Fun on the Bristol " to-night. Don't miss it, it’s mighty good fun some of it. Mr Locke Kichardsou, a reciter, who has been a great success in Melbourne and Sydney of late, is to pay this colony a visit before long. New Zealand sent 593,438 bags ot oats to New South Wales during the last six months. Nearly 27,000 postal notes of an aggregate value of £10,861 4s 10M were sold during the April-June quarter. The Congregationalist grimly suggests the following as an appropriate name for some churches : " The Society for the Promotion of Picnics, Progressive Euchre, Parties, and Theatrical Entertainments, successor to the Antioch Disciples’ Association of Christian Character and Gospel Work.” Ministers do not always make large profits out of their travelling expenses. Mr Richardson stated the other day that on one occasion he had to pay 6 guineas a day on the West Coast for thirteen days for horses and conveyances. Hearn, the Wellington sculler, is to row Mackley, a Port Chalmers man, for £lOO prior to proceeding to Sydney. The Dunedin Protectionists have started an organ of their own called the Budget. It is said that Her Majesty has proposed a dukedom for Lord Salisbury, and that the Prime Minister is indisposed, in present circumstances, to accept the promotion in the peerage.

The s.s. Pukaki, the Union Steamship Company’s new steamer, left Glasgow last week for Port Chalmers. She had on board 13 passengers and 800 tons of cargo. Sir Walter Buller’s book on the Birds of New Zealand is selling at up to £3O at Home. A copy was knocked down at auction at Auckland a few days ago at £3 15s. Here is a line of profitable export. A Dunedin medical man, with the view of testing the question of the liability of the Corporation, has sued them for fees for reporting cases of scarlatina and fever to them, acting as a Board of Health. Judgment has been reserved.

Major Atkinson, it appears, is in favour of giving a trial to Vaile’s system of railway fares, or some modification of it, So sure as the Opposition capsize the present Government so sure will they crush the San Francisco Service, if their bellowing down South means anything at all.—Bell. Six more Government printers have received notice that their services would be no longer required. This makes a total of 26 whose services have been dispensed with. The vicar of Netley Marsh, in Hampshire (Eng.), will not allow boys wearing corduroys to enter his Church, aud has objected to baptize a child under the name of “Jubilee.”

Two women were engaged in a prize fight at Sussex, England, and one of them died in the ring from the injuries.