FLASHES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 27, 13 August 1887, Page 2

FLASHES.

Irish-Americans keep up • rar* bobbery about eviction*, but in New Yotk alone last year there Were 2,000 eviction* tor rent, more than in all Ireland.

Asked when the elections would take place, Mr Ballance declared the other day that tbe great event would come off in the middle ot September, When the Premier wm » young end gnUe> less politician He said in one ot hie pamphlet* “ A oounity'e Wealth carindt ba Increased Bf taxing its inhabitants; 1 ' He thinks diaori ently now,. '\ That expensive •' secondary ” education again. The Napier High Schools in 1886 expended £B5l in excel* ot their income. How is this for high ? Bays the Fielding Star apropos of alcohol id fermentation on trees like the maple ami birch i—” Nature has learnt how to brew her own beer,” Sbe brewa eome very bad brer occasionally. i : :. 7 E, M. Smith, a candidate idr New Plymouth, is a festive cuss. Says he: ”I am told that Sir Julias Vogel spent £260 on a set of curtains in his parlour. Now, the first thing I’ll ask when I go to Wellington will be about those curtains, and I can tell you those curtains will either ba sold or pawned. (Laughter). The Akaroa natives are lamenting the death of Mere Wbirini Fukerdu; the' last surviving child of the great Afiki te Mairanui, one of the greatest of old New Zealand!* chiefs in the South Island.

Smallest on record. Only 18 statute* of New Zealand passed last session. Thank goodness, When Te Whiti was first arresMd at Parihaka, a Sydney paper announced that “ Mr T. White ” had been arrested for inciting the natives to rebel; Sydney sub-editors don’t kndw much about Maorilatid. An Auckland Freezing Company is establishing ” cieameries ” offering 3d tor milk in the spring, 3) in the autumn; and 44 in winter, clients buying back, it they chose, tne skim milk a< Jii per gallon. Not bad term*. Says the Pall Mall Gazette on New Zealand "depression,” "Restriction of credit would be the cure.” All very well, but *he trouble in Gisborne will soon be how to gut any credit to restrict. " There is more pleasure in giving than receiving," was the proverb that a mother was carrying to instil into a youthful mind. “ That’s true about castor oil, mother,” was the reply she got. Bogus milk is the latest. It is mads of glycerine, nitrate of potassium, and other compounds pleasant to the taste, and is said to be much like genuine milk, and hardly distinguishable from milk punch. Apropos ot the Premier's utterances re retrenchment, the Napier Telegraph says :—A death bed repentance is, perhaps, better than no repentance, but, in this case it will not avert the wrath to onme at the polling booths. Dr McGregor, the Inspector of Hospitals is of opinion that the system of charitable aid as in force in Auckland is " one gigantic fraud.” People say the same of the doctor himself. The " Bible in Schools ” party in Dunedin are bringing strong pressure to bear upon the candidates but it is to be hoped the latter will stand firmly to the “ free, compulsory and secular ” cry. The “ deficiency ” bills now afloat by the Vogel Ministry tot up to £900,000, A sign of the times. For the post ot Collector and Inspector of the Sydenham Borough Council 197 applications were received. The screw was £l4O per annum. In James the First’s reign lawyers were forbidden to seek parliamentary honours, The Devil's Own were referred to as “ curious and wrangling lawyers who seek reputation by stirring up needless questions," How well the description would apply to some of our Gisborne legal jokers. A writer to. a New Plymouth paper advocates a new cure for depression—the utilising of supple-jacks for basket making. School boys would rejoice were the project carried out, for they know full well the other use supplejacks are put to. Another sign of the times! Two hundred and fifty applications for the post of caretaker to the Nelson Normal School. Screw £BO. How hard up folks must be in the Sleepy City. John Bull donates £5OOO to the expends of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibiton.

A. Gosden of Wel ington has undertaken to eat 12 sausages, weighing two pounds in all, in six minutes, What a stum-jack for minced dog's meat he must have. Messrs Cable and Co., Wellington, are building a steamer ior Messrs Kinross and Co. of Napier to take the place of the Sir Donald, of fateful memory. Promising John! Ballance has promised £60,000 for roads to open up the native lands near Opunake. Can't he give us a lilt here.

Emma Smith, aged 14, of Auckland is a sensible girl. Her clothes catching fire, she jumped down a well, and, well—she put out the flames and saved her lite. Plucky girl. The North Island gets three additional members by the Bepresentation Bill. About time we had increased representation.. Th* Southern people have had things their own way long enough, A strong Ministerialist has said recently—- " We shall have to face the new Parliament in a minority of from six to ten, and it is just likely the Government will have to resign before Parliament meets.” On the other hand the Premier is said to be very confld- at ot * victory, The Hutt and Petone Chronicle, a Wellington suburban weekly, is the latest appearance in N. Z. journalism. It Is a well got up readable paper, but in face of the excellent daily press of the Empire City it is difficult to see how it can pay. Says Cr McKenzie of the Wellington reci. pients ot charitable aid“ Already Barry's boarding-house was full of their patients, who lived like fighting-cocks and grumbled when sausages were substituted for eggs.” A 'ot of humbug about this charitable aid in the big towns. Mr Richard Beeves, a West Coast oandidate, considers the Upper House is only an infirmary for decayed politicians, and should be abolished. Hear hear. Invercargill people are asking Vogel to address them. What an avalanche of talk is

now devastating the country. Trusting woman betrayed again. A Christ, church girl, a servant at an hotel, was found lying in her room the other night with a newly-born dead child by her side. She died shortly after. An exchange gives a new version of the Premier’s three D.’s. It gives them a* “ Debt, deficit, and depression.” Six youths at Ballarat, under twenty years of age, had a carouse on “ square gin ” lately. Result, two died. . It is co'd enough here sometimes—yesterday for instance—but Timaru can give us points, A night or two ago Jack Frost stopped the flow of nearly every tap and pop in the town.

The Waipawa Fire Brigade have just received a welcome addition of £lOO to their funds, being the result of a bazaar held there recently. Speaking of Major Atkinson’s speech at Wellington the other evening, the Evening Press says the old hound can teach the young dogs a thing or two yet. A third candidate for the Napier seat is now out, in the person of Mr Playford, of Invercargill. It is expected he will soon retire from the contest.

Hawera ratepayers are going to resist the collection of the new rate struck by the Taranaki Harbour Board, with a view to its being quashed on the ground of invalidity.

The representatives of the Napier Sundayschools have resolved to hold an Industrial Exhibition in about four months from now.

When you want to impugn a man’s veracity very strongly call him " a harp struck by lightning." They do it at Masterton elec-

tion meetings. Queensland is calling for tenders for 75 locomotives, to be made in the colony. Two c“.ses of leprosy have been reportci to the Victorian Central Board of Health. The sufferer.-, in each case are European women who are believed to ha.ccontracted tl e disease from Ch natnen. At the meeting of the Hastings Chaiitibla Aid Board the other day, it was stat-d that one recipient of ten shillings e. we,k waa keeping a servant. The ten bob was stopped

forthwith. Sir John Dean Paul, a British baronet, i* earning a living as a photographer tn London.

There are now about eighty boys boarded out from Kohimarama Industrial School.