BREVITTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 232, 8 December 1888, Page 3

BREVITTES.

Great excitement. Horrible double murder. Poor Mr and Mrs Pook butchered. Wool market is still hardening in price. Meeting re meat freezing—this afternooi The girls’ bathing shed is becoming quit popular. Garrison Band play in open air to-night-near the City Rink. Th* spider is happiest when his life ha> ging by a thread. Mr Reps has bspn elected a Fellow of t R>.sal Colonial Institute. Hick-Sawyer Minstrels were through p sengers by the Wairarapa. The Governorship of South Australia h been three t ines refused. The Chamber nf D nn’ies has sancticu • the prosecution of M. Wihon. Twe’ve hundred witnesses have been sn pcenaed in the Parnell enquiry. The Tnwer of BaW in Pari* has become rendezvous for wedding parties. The ra< ehnrsn La Rose has been sold f £2OO to Mr C aig, of Lawrence. There were eight, deaths of cancer in No Zealand during the mnnth nf October. I' is said that New Zealand hops are likp tn f.-tch seven or eight guineas in England > Jme next. The Hon John Bright, who has been i> disposed for some time past, is reported t< be sinking. The Wellington plumbers, gasfitters, etc., have firmed an association on the principle of trade unionism. Some absurd rumors were afloat in tow to the pff ct that a murder had bee. committed at the Karaka. The Queen gets np ar, eight, eats breakfa< to the skirl nf rhe bagnines, lunches at tw and goes to bad a little after ten. 'I wo thousand sheep have been poisoned near Gundagai through eating what is believed to be a new kind of thistle. The Salvationists on the West Coast hav* enrolled f^’ Ir Chinese among their converts, and they join in the procession. Seventy-eight insulators were smashed b> Christchurch boys with catapults in the space of fourteen days. Damage, £2,000. . An amusing bnne of contention has arisen in the Auckland Salvation Band.snmeof them having got too “ big ” to p’ay the b.ones. Lord Onslow, the new Governor of New Zealand, is receiving residents from that colony, introduced by the Agent-General. The Commercial Treaty between Great Britain ;md Persia is the cause of the strained relations between the latter country and Russia. A Wellington paper considers that Mr Robinson degraded his magisrerial position and made things conremptible by allowing too much latitude to the notorious Agnews.