FLASHES

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 69, 19 November 1887, Page 2

FLASHES

Glorious weather for crops I “ Jealousy Majeronis— to-night Hospital Sports—entries to be in to-night! What do you think of the ioe-aresms? Throwing bouquets at the Majeronis when sensitive people were enthralled f Nearly as bad as the bsd-mannsred people who oome late and disturb everyone I Who pricked the harbor.bubble? The signatories funked on it j , Pall Mell Gazette going for Gladstone I The old man knows the difference between noisy hoodlums and men struggling for thsir liberty ! He knows too much to be cornered like that, though tbe Gazette has its elreulatien to keep up | The Times says the Pope has adoionUhed the priests in Ireland I It’s getting pretty rough when it comes to that, but perhaps the Times is presuming a little 1 Vogel knows how to “ rile ” up some of the whisky-swigging M.H.R.’s! But like Vogel himself, it is feared words will be wasted on them I Jaw! A Wellington paper says I— We Call imagine no form of huiiiari torment ffiork appalling than to sit and listed to Mr Fish for three hours.

But our contemporary does not wish this to be understood as waste of time—oh I no; one such speech is sufficient to save half a dozen young men from becoming incorrigibls bores and nincompoops! The Duke of Edinburgh is becoming very unpopular in the Mediterranean, and there is universal discontent on board the ships of the squadron. For hying his hands On a boy a man at Naprei waa fined £4 and costs £3 17s. It U rather dangerous to lopk at “ kids ” now. Kahikahi Riding, Tauranga, it niakink < noise about reducing the representation from two members to one. There is a similar proposal in our county, but there is not likely to be any row about it. A Wellington man has written tc the Benevolent Trustees saying he Had bee? illegally taken to and Kent in the Asylum for 11 months, and that his watch, guard, and gold ring were taken from him. One of the trustees stated that he knew of a casein which a patient’s goods were sold. An applicant (Mrs Hyland) for charitable aid at Napier was found to be possessed ef property worth £l3OO. Some- o,f the miners oh the Kimberfe# goldfields are not doing badly. One man ia said to have £l3OO worth of alluvial gold in his possession, and another £9OO worth. The Chief Juttice says no man not in trade should go bankrupt. Among every 1000 bachelors there are 88 criminals, while among married men the r atio is only 18 per 10C5. Recent shipments of dairy produce to London from Sydney proves that Australia can take a large share in supplying dairy produce to her mother COUHtryi ’ It is expected that the wheat harvest ot South Australia will average about eight bushels to the acre.

The Queen’s Plate money, amounting to £3OOO, a year is to be utilised for the future as a Government grant for horse breeding. A bequest of £BO,OOO has been made to Lady Loftus. It will give Agtistus a lift lit his present finano.al difficulties. The Emperor of China being ill, his marriage has been postponed for two years. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has been expolled from Austria because he dismissed his gardener for permitting the Archduke to inspect the Baron’s greenhouses. As the steamer Gambier was going thranah the Bip at the Melbourne Hoads, a heavy sea washed a child out of its mother’s arms, dashing it against the bulwarks and killing it instantly. Bishop’s body has been fully identified b# Auckland residents. * Maris Morris, the Gisborne Hallelujah lass; has addressed the “ Harmy ” in Wallington. The N.B.W. Assembly have agreed to put £2OOO on their estimates for 1888 to promote mineral prospecting, Mr George Musgrove of Melbourne, ha* engaged the whole of the Gaiety Burlesque Company to oome to Australia next April. At Dewee a wife shot herself through the heart over the dead body of her hueband. An attempt was made to poison a regiment in India by putting arsenic in the beeXi Forty men were ill after drinking the bCef; but none of the cases proved fetal, Three female poachers at Denbigh were caught with 27 rabbits slung round their waists in imitation of dress.improvers. Tbe use of the totalisator has been pro* hibited in Launceston (Tasmania.) It is estimated that £250,000 changed hands over the Melbourne Cup, Sir Henry Hawkins, the most popiilat and brilliant of English judges, has just married for the second time, at the age of 70. A. Wsrbriok ia getting into trouble with hie Auckland creditors. They are not satisfied with bis dealings, Mr Rusden ia publishing another book, entitled " The groans of ths Maoris.” It La ta be hoped that the book io more truthfully written than the last one, ' Chief Justice Prendergast and Justice Williams will try the petition lodged by Mr Bryee against Mr Hutchinson, 7 Two hundred and twenty.flvo petitions have been received in the House this session. Ths Totalisator Bill has been read a third time in the South Australian Assembly, Shipments of Australian meats have depressed the English market.

Farrell, a man aged 60, of Melbourne; got 10 years for shooting at a policeman. The railway record ot attendance at tha Melbourne Cup showed a alight failing off from last year, when it reached its maximum. In 1886 the number of passengers convoyed by rail totalled, to and fro. 76,938, and the money taken, £11,804 12s 9d. Thio year the total of passengera was 75,500, and tha money £11,176 18s. Civil servants in Victoria are compelled to ensure their lives. A miner in Ballarat won £lOOO on Dunlop winning the Melbourne Cup. Auckland School Committees are making an example ot some of the parents for not sending lheir children to school. The hon. W. Robinson had to apologise to O’Brien, the jockey, for not letting him ride Silver Prince after engaging him so to do. A man in Auckland, at one time possessed of considerable property in America, applied to the Auckland police the other day to be looked up as he could not obtain board and lodging. Officers of the Salvation Army will shortly be told off for duty amongst the Maoris, Mr Henderson, the Returning Officer for Invercargill, has issued a writ for £lOOO against Mr Hatch, M.H.B. There are 1400 lawyers in London. A dispute has arisen between the auctioneers and buyers of wool in Auckland ow. ing to certain new conditions being imposed on the buyers. Buyers would not bid, so the sale was stopped. About £9OO was taken in one day at the Christchurch Agricultural Show. Mr Joyce, M.H.R., is asking Government to put a tax of t 5 a head on bachelors over 30.