BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 242, 3 January 1889, Page 2

BREVITIES.

A good man with bad friends is liable to be misunderstood. Two of the most important members of the Spanish Cabinet are Irish. Owners pf dogs are warned to have them registered before the 15th inst. How not to enjoy a holiday—Pulling up the river at noon, in a broiling*sun. The appeal case against the Wanganui Charitable Aid Board has been abandoned. Tenders are invited for the formation of S afford street and Biverside road, North Gisborne. The execution of Louisa Collins, ths Sydney husband-poisoner, is set down for tbe Bth of this month. In hie encyclical letter just issued the Pope reasserts what he claims to be the rights of the Papacy. Gisborne keeps up its reputation lor being a "warm ” place—yesterday it was tho hottest in the colony. Many people complain that at this period of tbe year the papers are crammed full of racing matter.

The vioiim of tbe Bradford murder now proves to be a girl of eight years—not a boy, as at first reported. The “ New Zealand United Legal Friendly Benefit Burial Society ” has been registered as a Friendly Society. The Adelaide Hospital Board have rejected the motion in favor of including lady members iu that body. Encouraged by their success in Gisborrs the Evening Star Minstrels intend to visit Ormond and Patutahi. No human being can come into thit world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. \ There is some talk of matching Jackson, who beat McAuliffe after twenty' four rounds, against Jake Kilrain. Beach says Searle is tha fastest oarsman he has come across, and that O'Connor will have to be a perfect wonder to boat him. The Sydney Rowing Club have accepted a tender for the erection of a new clubhouse in Woolloomooloo Bay at a cost of £ll7O. Some bachelors say it is a pity that Jan. 1 was uot included in leap year, baoauia they themselves had not the necessary courage. The road ambition travels is too nariow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark for science. On Wednesday night the Fira Brigade, wilh their manual, beat a lot of unencumbered runners in the mile and ha'f race to the lira. 'A woman was on Monday kicked to death by a ruffian who got her iu tbe Chinese quarters of Melbourne. Tha bruts has since beta arrested. Some New Zealand papers hava published a blood curdling cablegram about a rebellion in Mexico, the whole thing turning out Co be a fabrication. Buff and Black says the multiplicity of meetings is doing racing a lot of harm in Hawke's Bay, and tbe people are about getting eick of it. Mrs Shaw, tho famous lady whistler, has been challenged by a rival aspirant to a whistling match for £5OO and * the championship of tho world. * One estimate makes tho loss over the Waipaws Exhibition at from £3OO to £4OO, while on the other hand a hope is expressed that matters will balance. Tbe intended outing ot Cidrts on Tuesday did not prove a success—the boys evidently like the company of the girls too well to go soldiering on a holiday. A scheme is being prepared to drain ths Sebastopol Plateau in tho Ballarat distriot for gold mining purposes, at a cost of a quarter of a tpillion sterling. In a now railway bridge inSweden there are holes in the granite pillars for pl icing dynamite, in case it should be necessary during a war, to blow up tho bridge. Mrs Hall went down town with the intention of paying some bills the night her house was burnt down, but forgot the money, about £lO in cash thus being lost. A small trial shipment of new potatoes to London has turned out successful, though it is feared the high freight charges close thia omlet as a remunerative one. A fishing party went out in the Snark on Tuesday, but did not have much lack. Tho aea was smooth, but the burning rays of ths sun greatly marred the pleasure. Wordsworth tells us the race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid one another—the trouble is always as to who shall get the best of the give and take system. The consumption of water in the metropolitan area of Victoria this year has been the greatest ever known—for one fortnight lately the daily consumption was 30,000,000 gals. Wit If»es its respect with the good when seen in company with malice; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in tho mischief.—Sheridan. Among the latest marine inventions is what is known as the life saving saloon. It is arranged so that the whole saloon will elide overboard in case of accident, thus becoming practically a small ship.

‘ For eighteen long years, ’ yelled General Booth at a recent Army meeting in Loudon, ‘ I served the Devil.’ Whereupon some unregenerate person present shou ed : ‘ If you'd served two years longer you’d have got a pension.’ A shorthand writer’s notebook dropped from the Sydney reporters’ gal I ary tho other night, and nearly struck Afr Walker on . head. Some hon. members said that iu hitß whole life ho was never nearer getting ia-X spiration from above. The tender of Mr J. Gosa has been accepted for the erection of meat freezing works at Templeton, Canterbury, for the New Zealand Produce and Provision Company. Ths contract price is stated to bo between £13,000 aud £14,000. During a recent thunderstorm a ball of fire descended the chimney of a house occupied by Airs Kilfoyle in Sydney, and exploded with a report equal to that of a large piece of orduance. The room was filled with dense > smoke, but no one was injured. The N. Z. L. aud M. Co. are having plans prepared for the erootion in Wellington of substantial and commodious premises oa tbe allotment recently leased neir the Railway Wharf. The new warehouse and offices will probably be on a more extensive scale than any similar premises in the city.