BREVITIES.
Borough Council meets to-night. Chicago girls are developing a mania for marrying Chinamen. Saturday was the anniversary of Whitmore’s defeat of Te Kooti in 1869. Mr O'Brien was last week refused Trenton’s brother, Curassier, for £lOOO. M. Vaissier, of Nice, has invented a gun which can fire 3000 shots in ten minutes.
On the first and second, of January the Dunedin tramways carried 30,000 passengers.
Two sons of the Rev Mr Watkin, of Wanganui, have started to walk overland to Auckland.
The first issue this year of a Wanganui paper contains 6| opiums of reading matter, and 3J of it is sporting 1 Kilrain has accepted a challenge from J. L. Sullivan to fight in a 24it ring for 10.00010 l and the championship of the world. Strenuous efforts have been made to obtain a reprieve tor Louisa Collins, the Botany poisoner, but bo far without avail.
Messrs Bunton, Ronald and Co., wool, brokers, report that the prospects for 1889 indicate a steady supply and firm prices. The Maori footballers beat Leeds Parish by two goals to three tries, and also Kirkstall Cmb by two goals and a try to one goal. The resignation of Bishop Hadfield, of Wellington, is contemplated. The names of several likely gentlemen are mentioned already for the post. The American National Board of Trade has petitioned Congress to suspend the operations of the Mint at present to relieve the glut of coin in the country. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co., of Brick-lane, London, have converted their business into a company, with a Capital of two and a half millions.
The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company ha,a declared a dividend of 10 per per pent and a bonus of 5 per cent, and earned £12,000 to the reserve fund.
Mr Dunn, thasugar expert, states that last year’s prices were the highest averaged for five years past. He asserts that the bounties system will ruin the colonial sugar industry. Launcelot Newton, a Te Aroha man, tried to commit suicide by jumping into a river from a height of 25 feet, but became a temporary fixture m the mad I Drink the cause, mud the remedy I The Bishop of Nelson has presented the Corporation with a piece of one of the timbers of Lord Nelson's ship Victory, given him by Admiral Hopkins at the instigation of Admiral Hay, formerly commanding the ViatfiyJr
The longest cathedral in England ia that of Winchester, 530 feet. York Minster covers the greatest area of any cathedral in England, 72J360 square feet, Lincoln cathedral coming next, with an area of 66,000 square feet. Colonial jealously has already been stirred up on a snobbish point in connection with the new Governor. He proposed going to Auckland first, aud this has so enraged a Wellington journal that it publishes the following paragraph :—lt would be interesting to know at whose suggestion Lord Onslow proposes to. land at Auckland instead of coming direct from Sydney to Wellington. It is decidedly inconvenient that the new Governor should first land anywhere'than at the seat of Government, and if his Excellency is such a bad sailor as is- taper ted, he would save a few miles of sea voyage by coming direct to Wallington, Mt to mantien the journey overland or by sea from Aaakland here, If he is well advised he will elutogs hie programme as
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 244, 8 January 1889, Page 3
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561BREVITIES. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 244, 8 January 1889, Page 3
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