FLASHES!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 67, 15 November 1887, Page 3

FLASHES!

To-day is the anniversary of Cook’s taking possession of New Zealand—l 764! Poverty Bay stili here! The German National Bank refuses to make advances on Russian securities I The Czar refuses to meet Bismarck at Beylin | Why should he go to Berlin 1 Partner developments of FrenehWar Office scandal 1 There'll be the deuce to play there yeti Grew Slicks to Wilson well, but he'll get thrown on hie back tor his trouble I Niee State of affairs in the German royal household, with all hands under the doetora’ ears! No hope for the Crown Prince—the doctors pan do nothing more than stave off the fatal hour i If the Emperor dies Prinee William is to Msume the Regency! He Is Queen Victoria's grandson, aged 29. and with a character that will bear looking into!

He has three youngsters of his own, the eldest being five years of age I Continental bourses disturbed—capital opportunity now for sharpers to keep rigging the market with misleading reports 1 But the message says that it's on account of the Crown Prince’s illness 1 Partially so, of course; but it no doubt refers to the whole family affair I Pall Mall Gazette inciting unemployed to meet in defiance of the police 1 That from a journal which generally manages to be on the popular side 1 Force them to give honest working men a fair show, but it comes to something when a respectable paper backs up a lot of skulks that wouldn’t work if they had it I The Conservatives are getting so radical that the Radicals are forced to go at breakneck pace I At Wellington last week a man was fined £8 or fourteen day’s imprisonment for assaulting a bailiff. The Hussat-Cricket Club match did not take place on Saturday. Rain makes the willow grow, but it doesn’t make cricket go ! Melbourne shearers are a lively lot— seem to ba pushing the “ union ” racket rather far. The new machine will take their billets right away from them if they're not careful 1 The squatters are bad enough as a rule, but if the men are too exacting they'll get much worse—the employers will get the whip-hand in time, depend upon it I Cricket is still going backwards in the felonies, and not much interest is taken in the matches now being played—fancy Victoria being beaten by one innings and to spare by an inferior English team I The Liverpool Cup, which was run last week, resulted in favor of St. Martin, Goy Hermit being second, and Kibereene third. Gorry, Qakleigh’s jockey, got £6OOO for winning the Caulfield Oup. Nearly £lOOO was taken at the Christchurch Agricultural Show. Some of the sporting M.H.R.’b took sick or had argent business down Christchurch way about the holiday time. The Christchurch races said to have a lot to do with it. Niee legislators to discuss the Bible in Schools question, etc. Strawberries are threepence a pint in Auckland. Double that in Gisborne. At a festival the other day they ran up to a penny each. We believe it paid, too 1 The Wanganui river has had £9,903 spent on it out of the North Island Trunk Railway loan I Vogel’s opponents give us some nice gag sometimes. He’s bad enough, but some of them would be nearer perfection if they were on his level. They said he was hanging on to the Minis terial residences and harassing the Govern, ment. Turns out they were consenting parties. The galleries were packed during the financial debate in the House. An argument in favor of the House having no holiday last Wednesday was that Captain Edwin had predicted bad weather. Vogel's reasoning. Evidently bad in mind the ol> story about the boy that would be a sailor, '• but only tn fine weather.” Let’s be loyal on a fine day, but dash it all, if the weather is disloyal, we have a mighty example I Bishop Cowie leaves Auckland shortly on a trip to England. Last week he was presented With a testimonial, the fund being contributed to In some degree by members of other denominations. The good Bishop is the sole surviving clergyman of those who went through the trials of the Lucknow campaign of 1858, and Of the Afghan eampsign of 1863.

The Auckland Bell has a nice little pill tor the benefit of some churchmen, which we give for what it is worth. It says that the members ci the Church of England are as a rule affected with the vice of meanness, and although as a rule the wealthiest members of the community, they are the most niggardly in their contributions to the cause of religion. The Whsngarei paper says that the repeal of the Crown and Native Lands Act will be a calamity to that district which can scarcely be estimated. The Bell considers that the concessions the Government propose du regard to the Midland Railway to be the most demoralising and disgraceful job ever been perpetrated in the colonies. p a ff >< The Anglo Saxon race are governed by the heart and the stomach more than by the head.” From June 1886 to September 1887 Chinese entered the Northern Territory of South Australia to the number of 1920, and 253 left the Territory. Charles Warner, the actor, of 11 Drink " feme, and Alfred Collier, the composer, are coming out under engagement to Messrs Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove. A man named Cook on the Indian river, Fix, became so exasperated over the continued drumming cn a piano that he started put with a shot-gun and killed the pianoplayer, Hoyt, by name. Edward Barton, Dunedin, got 12 months' Imprisonment for beating his wife. Mr A- McLean has given 100 guineas towards the funds of the Mount Magdalen Asylum, Christchurch. The Thames County Council consider it monstrous that the Crown and Native Land Act should be repealed, unless other provision is made. Armour A Co. of Chicago will build the largest grain elevator in the world, locating it on lsland, close to the Milwaukee and St. Pauls Railway tracks. It capacity fa to be 2,000,000 bushels. Henry Ward Beecher’s old home on HicksStreet, Brooklyn, has been leased to a Mrs White, a member of Plymouth Church, who will use the premises for letting out furnished rooms. A reputable Georgia journal says that a clock down there stopped the moment its owner was arrested, charged with murder, and started again without aid the moment he was acquitted.