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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 256, 5 February 1889, Page 3

The police of Chicago have discovered several schools of anarchy where children are instruct#! in the principles for which Spies and his oompanions'were executed. These schools are in the rear of beer saloons and other places where the anarchists resort. There are 20 or more of them that have been unearthed, and an aggregate of 500 children attend them.

A Sydney.journal has the following startling piece oflnformatlou Mr Garvan, the Treasurer, has been making himself familiar with the public balance-sheet, and as a result he finds there is not a shilling to the credit of the Consolidated Revenue, and consequently he has been unable to meet many of the payments which have been made upon the Treasury. The public account, he states, is overdrawn now to the extent of upwards of £1,300,000. In addition to this, the trust funds to the amount of £2,100,000 were expended before the public account was overdrawn. Mr Garvan also finds that there have been further sums of money obtained from tho banks, for which there have been no appropriations, amounting to more than £170,000. The Treasurer’s advance vote of £200,000 is also entirely absorbed. Mr Garvan therefore expresses the opinion that the country is in a more terrible financial fix than it was ever in before. He says that he will certify to no payments until there are funds to meet them, and will do nothing except what he is legally authorised to do. The Wellington Press says if the Premier were to place himself more in sympathy with the public he would do better for himself and for the country than he does by shutting himself up in the Government Buildings, fagging at departmental details, eating his heart over newspaper articles which he totally misunderstands, and nursing prejudices instead of developing healthy and enlightened opinions.

An English sea captain has made what are probably the most careful observations on one subject which have ever been recorded. He writes to the Liverpool Mercury that daring a voyage round Cape Horn he measured the height of the waves in a gale. To do this he went up in the main rigging to get, if possible, the top of the wave coming up astern in a line of sight from the mast to the horizon at the back. The reason he selected the mainmast was this ; that, as a rule, it is nearly amidships, and when the sea is running, the sea ahead and from aft lifts the two ends, forming a hollow amidships (the actual toot of the wave below the mean draught, equal to the alight elevation, and tbe observer necessarily is above the true height}. It was a difficult operation, but he obtained some good observations, marking the height of the waves on the mast. On measuring the distances from these to the mean draught, he found them to be as follows : —64, 61, 58, and 65 feet respectively, varying in length from 750J0 800 feet. Our Belfast correspondent writes by the last mail: —“ Everything is jogging along quietly here, and the most important event on the political horizon at present is not greatly disturbing our equanimity. The recent visit of Lord Hartington, the opening of a Free Library in town, and the Parnell enquiry have failed to produce any excitement like what such important events were wont to do. The fact is the people are sick of the usual political twaddle, there being a glut in the market, A good opera or a big concert is the most suitable kind of entertainment for these long dreary nights of ours. This ie about the saddest time of our year. The leaves have fallen, the days grow still shorter, and such a fog hangs around that you could almost drive a nail into it and hang your top coat on it, All this reminds one that a long and cheerless winter is slowly but surely approaching.” Think of this dismal end cfiesrlaea realization gnd anticipation, oh ye croaking Gisbornites, and ask yourselves are you not fortunate to be where you are, with a climate that is unapproachable ? Mr A. Stewart Menzies, whose .death is reported, was the member for Eastern District of Berthehire. He was a Gladstonian Liberial in politics, and a staunch sunportgr of the Home Bule cause. At ths General election of 1883, Mr Menzies defeated the Unionist candidate, Mr JobnHober't Holland, by 1209 votes.