BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 256, 5 February 1889, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Borough Council meets to-night. The celebrated horse The Barb is dead. The Glasgow corporation has decided to erect a public crematory.

The river at Kai tert ahi rose over six feet on Sunday morning last.

Archbishop Redwood, of Wallington, has had an audience with the Pope. _ A boy in Sydney accidentally shot his sister in the neck with a toy revolver. The Maori footballers von their match at Gloucester by one goal end a try tn a try. Laundrymen in France clean linen without snap by rubbing it with boiled potatoes. « There will be 137 members in the next New South Wales Assembly as against 124 in the old House. Newgate Prison is to disappear and on its site will be erected fine shops and a new session house. A chimney that will not fill up with soot may be made by plastering it inside with clay mixed with salt. After sixteen years courtship a lady at Liverpool has been awarded £503 damages for breach of promise. A portion of the roof of the Vale Colliery, Lithgow, estimated to have weighed 50 tons, fell and killed a miner. The Pope has sent the Emperor of Austria, as a jubilee gift, an image of the Virgin in Mosaic work, ajid worth £l2OO. While boring for coal at Hazelwood, Vic--BUPP*J splendid water was Strack. The flow is 2400 gallons an hour. A solid gold nugget weighing upwards of 89oz has been found at Jones’ Creek, about five miles from Duuolly, Victoria. Robert Gigner, Mrs Gordon Baillie'* butler, ha* bad the charge withdrawn against him ot complicity in hii mistress' frauds. Where it the J Battery 9 Three gunners have made themselves heard, but there io ro ne other trouble boeidu Te Kooti now. A etrike of carter* is threatened at the Northoote brick factorial, Melbourne, owing to a proposed 10 per ceut, reducuou in eart. age*, A man named Moriarty fall from the ton of a mining shaft at Heathcote, Victoria, to the bottom, » distance of 80 feet, and was kilted, What ha* the Pres* Association finally done with Bate*, th* cricketer who out his throat but was brought to life again 9-It is time ha had a relapse, On the ocoMion of the N.S.W. Paritemen. f"i? nomination* the Civil servants had a halt-holiday, and are to have a whole dap for the pulling, * A man named Caffrey ha* now been arrested on a charge of murdering tbe Cniaamaa in Melbourne, whom Cutler waa alleged to have kilted.

Alfred Rowteton, of Albury, waa fined US, with the alternative of 14 days’ Imprisonrnant, for making a disturbance outside a Salvation Army building, A dummy Maori man was given afrea night * lodging, by Constable Dunn last ev <*H ,a ,B' hivin ? taken too much uaipirt while In charge of a horse.

An official announcement in the Vienna Gazette states that the Crown Prince Rudolph committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver.

la England a boy of eight, having eaten two nutmeg*, fell into a ooma'n** condition, and died within twelve hoar*. The symptom* were similiar to those of opium poison, Mr Justice Boyd, cf Dublin, has committed a reporter for contempt of Court, because be refused to dsliver up hl* note* of a speech Iby Mr P, Mahoney, M. P. for North Meath, The shipping firm of Huddart, Parker and Co., of Melbourne, ha* been floated into a limited liability company, with a capital ot £1,000,000 in 200,000 share* of £5 each.

The Government ot New South Wales, Vic. toria and South Australia have .ach received an offer of £6OOO tor one year for tbe right ot advertising on the back of postage stamps, Mercer, a plasterer, residing at Little Lonsdale street, Melbourne, blew out Me brains with a fowling piece white in a depressed state of miua, owing to oonsump. tion. r The drink bill of New South Wales for the past year amounted to £4,814,585, or £4 10* 3d per head of the population, a decrease of £510,206, or 14s 5d less per bead than iu 1836.

The Christchurch Druids made their (gala on Boxing Day such a success that they were able to donate handsome gratitudes, including thirty guineas to the secretary and £l7 to the local charities. It is reported that there will shortly be a vacancy in the representation of a Dunedin up country constituency, and that Sir B. Stout will be pressed to contest it, in which case his return is considered certain.

An erratic Queensland Judge sentenced a newspaper writer, after pouring on him the torrent of his wrath, to twelve months’ imprisonment for contempt of court in ootu< mooting on a divorce case sub Judice. Nominations of candidates for the Borough Licensing Committee will be received up to noon to-morrow at the Town Clerk's Office. Nominations for the Gisborne Licensing Committee must also bs made to-morrow, al Mr Todd's store, Makaraka, Mr F. Hall announce* that he has just opened up a large stock of cheap paperbsngiogs, scrims, window glass, paints, etc, and that all work entrusted to him will be dona in a workmanlike manner. Sign writing will be done on the shortest notice, A Mahakipawa correspondent states—"A man named Irving, who has been working on these diggings for some time, dropped in for a stroke of 'luck' last week, Rumor has it that the amount tots up to £10,000, £500 of which has been sent out to him as an instalment.