BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 243, 5 January 1889, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Water tanks all running short, A porter and gaidener is wanted for ths Hospital. Mr Day iovftos tenders for cutting and stacking oats. Busden, the historian, is about to pay New Zealand a visit. There were no Union boats from No-Jii or South yesterday. . <" The great Glasgow Exhibition resisted in a profit of £lO,OOB. Kinross and Co., ot Napier, have filed a declaration of insolvency. Mr Munn woo £156 in stakes at Hawke's Bay Boxing Day meeting. Jimmy Scott and a popular losal black-smith-first tap anywhere at Karaka. Ou the night of the Karaka races £BO was stolen from Mr Thomas Brown’s store. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Hospital takes place on Thursday next. The two Smiths, rider and trainer, deservs all sorts of credit for Ariel's performances. A fowl's egg laid near Napier this week weighed 60s—it is larger than a goose egg. Owing to competition, passengers are now carried from Glasgow to Londonderry al 6d par head. Lord Kinnaird and his sisters are enthusiasts in open air evangelistic services in England. The victim of the Bradford murder was first a boy, then a girl, and now the Bex is again changed I The Washington Legation billet is worth £6,000 a year, with allowances and an excellent house. - On the road from Buenos Ayroe to of the Andes is a etraiglit stretch of 211 of railway. 1V A strong feeling of antagonism has arisen between the Europeans aud Chinese at Bound Hill, Otago. Switchback railways are shortly to be constructed in Wellington, Dunedin, aud Christchurch. Lord Braasey's eldest son has already made nis mark as a student in colonial and naval questions. During Christmas weik hirty cates ot typhoid were reported in Melbourne, of which eight were fatal. Sir James Ferguston was lately offered * peerage, but declined it on the grounds ot insufficient means. On Thursday Mr Booth allowed £2 10a costs against Mr B. J. RujUolds because ot the latier’a honesty I The Hospital Treasurer acknowleges Um receipt ot subscriptions tor the six months ending December 61. The number of the different sorts of birds found in the British Isles is geusrMly slated to be from 350 to 400. Mr Ellis received £lO9 as his winnings in connection with the Napier Park rape meeting —the total was £4lB. Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett tell at 11 to day the stock in trads of the bankrupt Gregson, also a bioyole. J. B. Brooke obtained judgment against B. Little on Thumday for Is, tor oartag*Ths costs amounted to 16s. When the Princess ot the Netherlands becomes Queen of Holland, her revenue will amount to aboat’ £3,030,000. Heavy rains in Victoria have caused floods in some parte. Several lives have been lost, and a great deal of damage done. Nine million pounds in bills in connection with land transactions, fall due in Melbourne during the first quarter of this year. Owing to the heat Lbs death rate at Croydon (Q.) 13 very heavy, and life insurance companies are refuting to issue policies. An ex officer of the marines has hit upon a plan for changing the Martini-Henry rifle into a repealer at the cost ot less than is each. The names of ninety-eight native interpreters are published in tha last Gazelle, those of two women being included in the number. An eight year old illegimate boy set fire to a miner’s hut at Maryborough because his mother and a owner were drinking together. The Maori branch ot the Synod ot tbs diocese ot Waiapu commenced Ha session al Heretauoga last Saturday, the Bishop presiding. It is stated that a former member of ths Fisk Jubilees is coming to Gisborne for the law profession. We sympathise with him if it is true. Out of 56,460 officers on the permanent staff of the English Post Department 8,872 are women, besides 16,000 general female assistants. Lord Onslow’s chief hobbies are coaching and photography. He is a crack shot and a hard rider, two qualities which ought to make him popular. The echo of a pistol fired beneath the large brick arches constructed by Mr Bruml ov.r the Thames at Maidenhead, is repeated from 12 to 20 times. The Bishop of Waiapu (says a Home correspondent) has presented the Bev G. H. Preston, 8.A., to the incumbency ot St. Andrew’s, Napier. Between £6O and £7O was realised in aid of the Mobaka Library by a Cake Fair on Boxing Day. Who will be the first to try this novelty in Gisborne? Mr W. T. Firth is taking a large area cf land on the Ohinemuri River for the purpose of putting in late potatoes. Hs proposes to irrigate by maohineryThe comilig Salvationist orator and rubicund butcher—First tap on the nose the corner of | Peel street and Gladstone ros® Only a joke, though. The death is announced of Miss Florence Toole, the only remaining daughter ot J. L. Toole. Her ago was 22, and she was sngsgsd to Mr Justin McCarthy.

By an oversight Billy Harrison was not complimented on the appearance of bis horses on Boxing day. Keep a stiff upper lip, your head cool, aud fight low.

r At Newcastle an old man whilst rowing in * ■ boat suddenly threw up his arms, exclaiming, f ” Oh, this is grand,” and dropped back dead. I Syncope was the cause of death. t A man has been known to stay for five t minutes in an oven in which the tempera- • ture was 380 deg., and yet Gisborne oomI plains that 80 is nearly unbearable. j Mons. Berger, director of the Paris Exhibi- ■ tion, is getting impatient at the dilatoiiness 1 of the Colonial Governments in da aiding [whether they will accept space or not. The various stands in connection with the Waerenga-a hika racecourse are in a rather delapidated condition, and a little mon, W1 ought to be expended on their renovstion. W A parcel of 1,000 sovereigns was bcinj

placed on the Alameda in Sydney harbour from a waterman’s boat, when it slipped ovei board, and has not since been recovered. The Auckland Star’s Home correspondent says Lord Onslow is an alert little man, while the N.Z. Herald's correspondent asserts that he is ” tall, straight and slender.” Which is the liar ? The South Australian Conservator of Forest’s report shows ths department has added £lO,OOO to the gene al revenue anl permanently proved the public estate to ths extent of £193.000.

The sheet almanac for l p B9 published by the New Zealand Herald ie a high tes'imonial of the splendid work that is done in that journal's lithograph department—it is indeed a credit to the colony. When the Melbourne hanks raised the rate of interest there were 83 millions sterling ot bills afloat in connection with lend while the cash deposits of the transactions amounted only to three millions. Joe Warbrick made his first appearanos on the football field in England in the match against Tynemouth, when be played remarkably well. Unfortunately he again injured his leg, though not seriously. The scribbler’s dog and one owned by a local livery stable keeper—first bite anywhere, anyhow—catoh as you can. Now Year’s morning enlivened. The Tauro-Bey-nardian boss of the situation.

A oorrespondent writes that a reverend amateur on Sunday night spoke of a late journalist stupidly, and adds that hs should remember that •’ do unto others as you would b« dww by ” is th* ssssucs of religion.