BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 250, 22 January 1889, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Borough Council meeting this evening Charitable Aid Board adjourned meeting on Wednesday The Duke of Edinburgh talks of retiring from the navy. Despite the hot weather the Auckland rinks are well patronised. Mr Denniston, of Dunedin, has accepted the vacant judgeship. The two physicians in attendance on Mr John Bl ight are homcepathists. There is a likelihood of Mr Stead resigning the editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette. Harbor Board got a “ Wrinkle ” from McEwen, adding sixpence per cask for cement. Mr Wilson, dentist, arrived on Sunday, and may be consulted at Mr Foster's chemist shop.

The libel action Larnach v. N.Z. Herald, damages £3OOO, was commenced yesterday morning.

The Native Football team defeated Warrington (Lancashire) by two goals and a try to a try.

Tom King, the ex-pugilist, who died in England a short time ago, left £54,472 to his wife and daughter. Female Inspectors are now employed on some of the surface car lines in New York to detect dishonest conductors.

“The battles of mankind are being fought with the printer’s leaden types instead of the soldier’s leaden arguments.” Locusts are said to be swarming about Terang (Victoria), and are devouring everything green they come across. A man named Francis Fahey shot his wife at Chertsey, near Ashburton, on Friday, and then shot himself. About twenty Thames miners left Auckland for Sydney by the Bingarooma last week. They are bound for Broken Hill.

A German paper tells of a large number of pretty unmarried women who are going to America from Russia to get married.

Dr Storer, the oil expert, left Gisborne for Sydney on Sunday. Mr Weaver returned to the South Pacific works yesterday. It was so hot in Queensland recently that " the mercury sat on the top of the glass with its tongue out, gasping for a shandygaff.”

Dickson was right waen he S'ated that the cement cablegram was too vague, but its vagueity (new word copyright) was dispelled yesterday.

Gladstone is opposed to divoroe. He regards marriage as indissoluble, and even in the extremes! oases would only allow judicial separation. Women in Holland are employed as watchers on the railway crossings, and no accident has ever occurred through a woman’s carelessness.

The first pilgrimage of Catholics from the United States is now preparing for departure to Rome and the Holy Land. They will number 100.

The arrivals in the colony for December were 2298, and the departures 1250. _ There was no Chinese immigration or emigration during that period.

All the police in the colony are to be provided with revolvers shortly, and the swords, which are supposed to be worn by mounted constables, are to be called in.

Auckland youths have taken to flying kites at night, with Chinese lanterns hanging to their tails. A pedagogue who saw one imagined he had discovered a newlplanet.

German clerks are said to be working themselves into Melbourne offices to the exclusion of the colonial article. They are said to be cheaper and steadier than the colonial youth.

Captain Grinling, of the Salvation Army, and -editor of the New Zealand War Cry, arrived on Sunday morning, and conducted numerously attended services in the Army barracks during the day and last night. For some work recently tendered for on the Thames road, in one section the highest tender was £2lo—lowest £B7; second section, highest £26B—lowest £9O; third section, highest £l6B—lowest £6B. At an athletic meeting in Victoria the starter, in sending the men away, inadvertently discharged his pistol—loaded with diamond grained powder—close to a runner, burning his leg from the knee to the ankle. The Sydney Morning Herald says the number of politicians that are deserting the Freetrade camp seems to show a growing belief that Protection is coming, and an anxious desire not to be too late in changing sides.