BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 245, 10 January 1889, Page 3

BREVITIES.

What about the dark horse, eh ? Read Fair Play’s opinion of England's policy.

County Council meets as usual to-morrow afternoon.

The Emperor of China is now in his eighteenth year. Shakespeare spalled his name in forty-three different ways. What does a lawyer do after he is dead • Lies still, of course. The new Lord Mayor of London is a fanmaker named Whitehead. The Christmas traffic from Adelaide to Melbourne was enormous.

The New Zealand Insurance Company pay a dividend of 15 per cent.

Nine-two thousand paupers was the London census for September. William, King of the Netherlands, is the richest monarch in the world.

Meeting of the Hospital contributors at 7.30 to-night, at the Courthouse. Some of the heavy guns being mounted on the Victorian forts weigh 21 tons. The Gear Company, Wellington, have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. The Maoris have beaten the Brighthouse Rangers by a goal and a try to nil.

A man in Queensland has been arrested on a charge of beating his son to death. Barnum, the well-known showman, has retired on a fortune of ten million dollars. Nevada brags of a sunflower blossom fiftysix inches in diameter on a stalk twelve feet high The Queen has announced her intention of bequeathing her jubilee presents to the nation.

The Agricultural Society of N.S.W. lost £5OOO on the Intercolonial Agricultural Exhibition. The foundation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is subsiding, and the tower is in danger of collapsing.

The assets of Kinross and Co., of Napier, are estimated at £148,000 and the liabilities at £106,000.

A. first offender was discharged with a caution, by Mr Booth, yesterday, on a charge of drunkenness.

Wi Potae was charged at the R.M. Court on Tuesday with forcibly entry, and remanded till Monday next. During a heavy storm at Mount Morgan, Queensland, the English Church aud other buildings were wrecked.

A large number of plum puddings, etc., were received in Victoria from England per parcels post, at Christmas. The postal authorities of Victoria are about to fix a uniform registration fee of 4d on letters for all parts of the world.

Murray, the Maori who escaped from Lyttelton gaol, was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for housebreaking. The celebrated vine at Hampton Court produces annually two tons of grapes, valued at Is per lb, and therefore worth £2OO. The action for alleged libel, Larnaoh v. proprietors of N.Z. Herald, will be heard at Wellington on the 21st inst., before a special jury.

The details of the seventh Whitechapel murder, to hand by mail, are unfit for our columns, that murder being the most terrible of all.

The importation of sheep into New South Wales from New Zealand has been prohibited, owing to the last outbreak of scab in this colony. There were no bidders for the leasehold of pastoral runs in the Hangaroa and Ngatapa districts, which were offered by auction on Tuesday. The Oounty Council notifies that all persona wishing to kill cattle or sheep for the purposs of selling the meat, must first pay a license fee of £l.

The publication of morning papers in Constantinople has been forbidden by the Grand Vizier. Ohly evening newspapers will bo allowed.

Neil Matterson has challenged Beach to row over the champion course for £2OO or £5OO aside, “to show the public that he defeated Beach honestly at Brisbane.” Mr Henry Freethy, who had resided in Wellington for nearly thirty years, died last week. He was Chief Ruler of the Perseverance Tent of the Reohabites.

Good butter commands a fancy price in the United States. Some New York dairymen get a dollar a pound. People will pay well for what they like in the way of food.

A Chinaman in Sydney was found to be suffering from leprosy, and as he had only been in the colony a few months he must have contracted the disease in China.

In one of the Melbourne colleges recently nearly all the prizes in one class were swept, off by Chinese boys. The English boys will

either have to study harder or start an .antiChinese agitation. The four-oar races of the Gisborne Bowing Club have been withdrawn, owing to two crews being scratched. New crews are to be picked at once. The selection of a representative crew will be made shortly. One racehorse owner is honest. During the ‘ ‘ dark horse hoax ” he, though willing to look at the animal, declined to do so without the owner’s permission. His initials are W.J.H., and he-deserves credit.

It is now learned that the murderers of Mr and Mrs Sanudo, the Havana millionaires obtained £BO,OOO. An anonymous writer promises to give the murderers to justice if he is guaranteed £5OOO. The excellent management of the Berlin municipal finances is once more demonstrated by the report of the City Treasury for the fiscal year ending April 1, 1888, which shows a surplus of 3,825,720 marks.

What is local journalism coming to when an evening paper devotes three quarters of a column to the revolting details of a case which is disgusting for an elderly person to read, and by the publication of which no earthly good can be attained ? “Can you tell me,” he asked, “ the exact physiological and mathematical duration of a kiss ?” “ About a second and a half,” she answered demurely. “Thanks,” he replied, •' I will make a minute of it.”

At the R.M. Court ou Tuesday Frederick DeLacy was fined 10s or 21 hours’ imprisonment for drunkenness, and sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment for resisting the police, and 30 days for begging, sentences to be cumulative.