FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 50, 6 October 1887, Page 2

FLASHES!

•' Maria ’’ on our back page I Parliament meets to-day I Bazaar and gift auction postponed until to-morrow!

Awfully funny I The Fielding Star says a Wellington man states he only backed one horse in his life, and that was into a shop window on Lambton Quay, The little sparrow adds that they manage those things better In Fielding!

What a display of wit these country P.D.'* can get out I

The noble Brown family to the fore I One Tuapelia Brown, who is doing the hy-ty in England, got Mrs Brown to conduct the contest 1 She got him in, too I Yet they will deny women their rights I The Tury monsters I

In a birth notice at Hawke's Bay the parent Intimated that the "Corner” party could not rob him of his possession—th* Tory party might steal his bread and butter, but not bis child 1

That child deserves to be a Napoleon, with a better fata I

Can the new cushioned chairs have any. thing to do with the length of the Borough Council’s meetings ? Apparently Councillors do not care about leaving them I

Perhaps some of them are only allowed out at night to attend meetings I All about a pig I Councillors waxed eloquent over a pig, Devoted half an hour’s discussion on him. The fact is significant!

Aberdeen Road is in the country and the settlers there country farmers, so one Cr said, The new watering cart to be a sort of gig on springs I One simitar to those used in Bristol I

Gisborne leading the colonies again I The Rowing Clubs coming out again I Very strange that both Clubs should be pressed by the one firm, and this against the understanding arrived at with the Clubs I Still it’s just as well to pay at once what must be paid sooner or later 1

Can’t see it, though, that it would be a disgrace to dun public for fundal Not always convenient, certainly, but public would got the worth of their money at any show Boeing Clubs gave 1 Treachery I Treachery I At the eight candidates forfeited their deposit. Misleading 1 Wire from Christchurch says ” Whakatipu gone down, Captain Wheeler dead.” Both were racehorses, What’s the meaning of it 1 Scotch whisky going to the wall one after 'tother ! The Highland laddies are surely not getting so hard up as all that 7—or is it the temperance movement ? Cuts a little both ways, but not much 1 Over production has more to do with it 1

Fancy forty million gallons in bond in Scot; land! Enough to kill off all the unemployed 1 Germany swallowing the leek! Giving bchnaebelJe a ticket of leave, and a douceur to the game-keeper’s widow ! All’s well that ends well -the shootist will probably get promoted, and the pensioned widow marry a French officer.

The Yankees are in hign feather over their wm in the yacht race I

They always can blow, but when they beat a Britisher in anything their language becomes balloonifled.

Maoauley said there was no reasoning with the British public when they took a fit ot morality—that's near what he said anyway I They are properly down on the Markiss for his shady turf tricks! Serve the scoundrel right tool Every genuine sport will say " them’s mv sent!, ments 1” Fair play’s bonny play | 7 But imagine the Times wanting him kicked out of the House I Judge him with his ooffi, pany, and how many would escape kicking! The coat surely does not never a multitude of sins 1

The treacherous Russians trying to obffib the double on Italy by disguising themselves as priests 1

Italy will get herself into a nice little pickle before she has done with that Abyssinian affair 1

There's not much to be gained and a lot *o be lost in these frittering little wars I

The Chinese are having a lively time ot it in Australia. Every opportunity is taken to ill-treat them in a shameful manner. It is feared that there will shortly b« serious developments.