BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 246, 12 January 1889, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Mr Fred Casein np ft tree. Garrison Band out to-night. Sale of race privileges to-day. Drake in Gisborne for annuals. Town qnite lively with Maoris. New name for dice—spotted cubes. Town polluted with spielers. Beware I Well known sport, Patsy Butler, arrived. The N.Z. Archer has seen the " dark horse.” Back page—Report of the latest big scandal. The King of the Netherlands is reported to be dying. Harold. Peter Osbeck, and Lady Norah have arrived safely. Rev J. Ward back in Gisborne, looking a s happv as ever. Cheap cash sale at H. Marcroft’s, opposite StaSdabd office. It is proposed to hold a gigantic world a fair at Washington. Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard inspects the this month. Mr Rennie has received the appointment of porter at the Hospital. The “dark horse” has been enlisted for Service in the Hnssgrs. Jimmy Redman, who has Harold in charge, looks better than ever. The Hussars’ masher uniforms are to hand. Wont we be toffs, jist ? Lord Onslow gives a farewell banquet at Guilford on February 6. Cons'ab’e Brooking took in yesterday with a new kind cf dark horse. The Pall Mall Gazette announces tho union Of Tobago and Trinidad. Borough Council invites tenders for various works—see advertisements. The Dunedin City Council has filed the * at £4OO. , SMlf men and five women to keep ffiHUßfork post office clean. Messrs Saunders and Ollivier have been nominated for the Lincoln seat. Some delicious looking peaches are now to be seen in the local fruit shops. Russians are building pontoons at Reni, io readiness to bridge the Danube. Waikato people anticipate that that district will soon become noted for its growth of vines. Several New York capitalists are said to be anxious to invest money in Australian enterprises. There is a summer hotel in New Hampshire called tbe Quoquinnapasakessananaguog House. The Tauranga paper has retrograded, and is now published only twice instead of thrice Weekly. A contemporary says it appears safe to predict that Mr Ward will not get the vacant judgeship. A Waipawa correspondent speaks of the Exhibition there as “the great Waipawa blunder.” We understand that the popular Mr John Harding baa been established as “ Mine Host of the Albion. Look out for Evening Stars at Ormond on Tuesday night—roll up, plenty of fun, and a worthy object. Congregational Church Services on Sunday —.Gisborne 11 and 7, Makaraka 2, Te Arai 3.30, Mr Lane. When the last Frisco mail left England ten out of tbe twenty five Maori footballers were on the injured list. A little girl at Meanee while playing with crackers set fire to her clothes, and has since died from her injuries. The annual meeting cf ths South Pacific Petroleum Company has been further adjoumc '. for three weeks. In Palmerston fines imposed upon persons for allowing chimneys to be on fire go to the funds of the local fire brigade. The Napier breakwater is at a standstill at the best time of the year owing to the dilatorineee of the new contractors. The King country natives made £lB7 last month by rabbit hunting, and still there seems to be no diminution in the pest. Napier musical amateurs are rehearsing the Mikado," which they intend producing * about the middle of next month. Another match between Byan and Penfold —if it is as game a walk as tbe last it will be worth anyone’s bob to go and see. Two lads were “ sky larking ” in Napier’ on Wednesday, and one of them, named Barrett, fell and broke his left thigh. The Invercargill police records of 1888 show a great diminution in drunkenness, there being 140 cases as against 236 in 1887. The Napier News for several issues this week published in a reduced form, because it had run out of its stock of ordinary paper, Edison proposes to use the phonograph as a newspaper, supplying it to customers in the morning, so that they can hear the news at breakfast. A man at Napier coolly took a pair of boots which were hanging at tbe door of a shop and walked off. He was rewarded with three months’ hard labor. A Napier delinquent this week excused himself for not registering his child because be had forgotten all about the matter—one shilling and costs. A Napier paper says next session of Parliament will likely enough be a vicious example of persistent log-rolling, particularly over the Midland railway fraud.' a

Sonde, cashier of the New York Daily News’ emptied all the safes of that office on Novem- . her 13, and disappeared with IO.OOOdoI in cash -And negotiable securities. f Mr Henniker Heaton intends moving in the Hoose of Commons for a return of the correspondence relating to the quarrel between Sir Arthur Gordon and Mr Bryce. The domiciles of large families in a southern township were placarded the other night with the question, “Is marriage a failure?” The perpetrator is being looked for. Kitty Moylan on Thur-day got 30 days’ “ jug ” for using naughty language. Andy, her husband, was fined 10s or 24 hours for

poisoning himself with alcohol. An aged Maori man named Pera Titonga was brought befere Mr Booth yesterday charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse. He was fined £1 or 48 hours. Quoth a member of the Napier School Committee —“We’re a lot of fools. The Board does as it pleases. We're the laughing stock of Hawke's Bay.” Hear, hear ; encore It is said that the Government intend taking up the question of charitable aid thoroughly, and will bring in a bill next session to amend the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act. Professor Geffken received a grand ovation on returning to Hamburg after his release from prison. The Press applaud the courage of the Supreme Court in taking the course adopted. Two officers in the local Government service are laid up—Mr Donald Murray ie just getting round after a painful illness and Mr Barnard (Post Office) is afflicted with an attack of fever. According to an Auckland paper Josept Measures was bound over to keep the peaci for calling William George Garrard a Woolloomoolloo convicted and i thief I That man ongbt to have go Six months, Sydney Taiwhanga is still at his old games He baa irsued a pamphlet—“ Proposals of M B. D. Taiwhanga, M.H.R., for the Colonisatioi of Maori Lands.” Carroll will please take i back seat; the glitter of the Bees star ma; Wane into insignificance. An Auckland paper asks, is the Nativ Minister for tbe time being to be the ** moral' censor with regard to native interpreters and adds that some Ministers could not them selves have obtained a certificate for 11 aj proved moral character.” In reply to a request from the Wangant Charitable Aid Board that the Auckland Boar should join in a protest against the decieio compelling local bodies to relieve natives n quiring medical assistance, the latter Boaz declined, saying it did not concern them. Dunedin, to-day.—Professor Hay wi elected a member of the Senate of the Un Versity. A resolution waa carried in fart of the establishment of a college at Welllngts Kaa the finances allow. TUotar was A lot tattle stealing,—QUberul |upt

35 foreign Jews were arrested at Kieff on December Ist for not leaving the town when ordered.

The popular Alf Lawton is in town—he knows how to make tbe people laugh, despite the hard times.

Cardinal Rampalla, Papal Secretary of State, has officially denied that the Pope intends to quit Rome. The ketch Zillah left Napier on Wednesday afternoon for this port. She brings a cargo of coals and timber.

The Waihora arrives here early on Sunday morning from the Sooth. The first and last launch goes off at 6 a.m. Strikes continued in the mining districts of Belgium, and mine-owners apprehended destruction of their property. Large seizures of smuggled opium were made by United States officials on the Canadian border on December 15.

Captain Tucker and Mr Nolan have been reelected Hospital Trustees, and Mr E. F. Harris was appointed to a vacant seat. Mr Cargill, who relieves Mr Dougherty during that gentleman’s holiday, has taken charge of the Union Company’s office.

France and Holland will submit to arbitration the dispute concerning the boundary line between their respective possessions in Guiana.

Some boys fancied they saw a dead body in a creek on the Whataupoko yesterday, and got frightened, but later examination proved it was a mistake.

It is said the Chicago newspaper publisher are taking steps to indict certain clergyman who have recommended a boycott of all journals issued on Sunday. Recent borings in the Baku oil district, Russia, produced warm water instead of petroleum, and it is feared that the supply of oil is becoming exhausted.

It is announced that a large popular paper is to be started in Italy to enlighten the lower classes in regard to the Papacy. The leading]articles will be written in the Vati* can.

The Spanish Cabinet has approved the Bill which grants the suffrage to all persons over 25 years of age who have had a residence of two years in the same place, except officers, soldiers, paupers, and criminals.

The statement that the D.A.O. intended publishing a list of past bankrupts arose from a foolish reporter rushing off to print and making a joke that was made in private conversation appear as if it had a public interest.

The s.s. Etruria recently had a rough passage from New York to Queenstown. For ten hours she was almost under water. Ten seamen were seriously injured, and one cabin passenger was knocked senseless. Heavy gales were at the same time experienced all along the Atlantic coast. Mr Arthur J. Cooper has returned to his former premises in Lowe street, where he will be as happy as ever he was to see his old customers and many new ones. Many of the C.T.’s passing through get their boots made at Mr Cooper’s, because they find he can give better satisfaction than they can get in the big towns.