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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 58, 25 October 1887, Page 2

Infants have been dying in New York *t the rate of 103 per day. Th ifl woe heat h*« been the common cause of this great mortality. Prince Bismark propose* to appoint a coininissi.nl and to grant pecuniary aid to German Exhibitoie at the Melbourne Exhibition. A statue ot Ribort Burn* has been un. veiled at Ballarat. 20,000 persons witnessed the ceremony. Germany, England and Italy have agreed to adopt uniform resolutions on tbs Suez Canal question. The M-lb.urne Herald say* the Fijian* are remarkably polite. Thi Sidney Bulletin lay* they are, ttiey usually lake a atranger in, and be usually slop* to dinner. An Auckland paper put* the question; Does anyone for a moment suppose that if an incompetent lady teacher with a pretty face, and lithe and graceful as a willow, had reoeived an appointment by making eyes *t the Chairman, or a school was etuok down in Mullocky Gully merely to benefit the children of some f. iend or political supporter of * member, we should not have heard ot il in the Assembly if there had been any responsibility attaching to it ? At one of Mr Kelly’s late meetings, when addressing the electors at Tauranga, he wm asked, " What was the use ot the Legislative Council ?” “It is a very useful place,” he replied. “It is the political heaven where good members of tbe House ot R-preemtt-nves who have always voted for their party hope to be sent when they die." This is the way the question is introduced by the f .n mu> vf the jmy up 1 n th, when they retire to deliberate. (N B. He is a German b ker ) “ N w dun, fa quick. Vuiud him kil y order uot kilty. I dunkerdam vich ; bout I must ket avay to set mine patch of pred.—tiydney paper,