BREVITIES.
Try the Premier Billiard Boom—the Albion Borough Council has cottages to let in Roebuck road. The County Council calls tenders for various works. Look out for Hussars this afternoon, with their new uniforms on. All County Council rates remaining unpaid on the 31st inst, will ba sued for. A Victorian physician has successfully treated snake bites by injecting strychnine. The ketch Zillah sails for Timaru this morning. She takes a full cargo of grass seed. Owing to the Port Darwin cable being interrupted our supply of cablegrams is limited. An annual allowance, it is stated, is to be made to the Prince of Wales by the Queen, of £20,000. The Harbor Board propose to alter their tariff, as per printed statement to be seen at this office. The Gisborne School re-opens on Monday, when all scholars are requested to ba in attendance. A young man while crossing the Snowy river, near Cooma, was carried over the falls and drowned. At Christchurch a boy named Mills, while bathing in the Avon, got into a hole and was drowned. Owners of unregistered dogs in the Borough bad better take heed of the warning in our advertising columns. A woman charged with begging in Liverpool was found to be in possession of over £lO in threepenny bits. On New Year’s eve a mob of larrikins broke into a house at Adelaide and brutally assaulted a married woman.
Mr B. Wake left for the Wairoa yesterday afternoon, taking his horse Nancy, which is entered for the Hurdle Baoe.
Mr Joyce notifies that the accounts of the Independent, which have been assigned to him, must be paid immediately. Nominations for Harbor Board on Monday next—retiring members, Messrs Chambers, Gannon, Dickson, and Townley. A fine bust of General Gordon has just been placed in the grand corridor In the private apartments of the Queen.
We understand that Mr 0. D. Bennett will be nominated for a seat on the Harbor Board. Good, that is the class of men we want. It will be a relief to many to learn that the unfortunate youth Edgar Pickard was a passenger homewards by the Lochnagar. The Maitai left Auckland at 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening and should reach here this afternoon. The last launch goes off at 8. Mr Dickson does not intend to again come forward for a seat on the Harbor Board—possibly, though, he may yet be induced to do so.
A middle aged gentleman in Melbourne, while walking in bis sleep on New Year’s morning, fell down a flight of stairs and broke his neck.
In the libel action, Larnach v, Wilsons and Horton, heard at Wellington, the plaintiff was awarded £5OO damages, with costs on the medium scale.
Salvation Army had a monster tea meeting on Tuesday night—later on Captain Grinling waxed eloquent: to-morrow night he will be again far far away. Some trouble may be expected over the Harbor Board election—the time up to which nominations will be received has not yet been officially announced. In France there are 22 horse breeding depots belonging to the State, and 2500 horses are placed at the disposal of the public for very moderate fees.
“ The bloody puddle ” is the way in which the Pall Mall Gazette describes the painful evidence of Irish agrarian outrages given before the Parnell Commission.
The Wairarapa is due here shortly after noon on Friday, from Sydney and Auckland. She leaves for Melbourne via south in the evening. The last boat at 4 p.m. Sir Henry Loch will leave for England with his family in March next, on six months’ leave of absence. During his absence Sir W. Bobinson, Governor of South Australia, will take office as Acting-Governor. 'Nominations for the election of five members of the Patutahi Licensing Committee will be received on Thursday, February 7. The poll (if any) will be held a week later. Mr Hare, evangelist, is to deliver a number of Bible lectures in a tent at the corner of Carnarvon street and Palmerston Boad. The first meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday next. '
At Bathurst £2O per ton is being offered for 'potatoes and they are not obtainable at that. For the first time within the last 25 years people have to do without potatoes for their meals.
Mr Skillicorn, who has resigned the secretaryship of the Ormond Boad Board owing to pressure of other business, has been either Chairman or Secretary of that body since it came into existence.
The Proprietors of the Sydney Evening News have given £5OO to the various hospitals
in Sydney, on account of the Sydney Morning Herald refusing to be recompensed ter their generosity in connection with the disastrous fire at the Evening News office.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 251, 24 January 1889, Page 3
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789BREVITIES. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 251, 24 January 1889, Page 3
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