BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 260, 14 February 1889, Page 2

BREVITIES.

St. Valentine’s Day. Weather again changeable. Back page—interview with Wi Pert. Prince Rudolph still dead—rest for weary. Osman Digna has evacuated and burned Handoub.

Mr Marcroft’s new advertisement will appear shortly.

Max O’Rell is a heavy loser by the Panama Canal failure.

It is said tbe Carnarvon street “ ghost ” now dresses in black.

Drummond’s crew rows Young’s on the Taruh(ru this afternoon.

Two boys were drowned while bathing in the surf at Ross, Westland.

Dion Boucicau’t, ths veteran actor, ie seriously ill with pneumonia. Very heavy rains have fallen in Queensland during the last few days. During 1838 the quantity of spirits made in Victoria was 3,737,016 gallons. Hot-house strawberries sold for fifty oente each at New York a few weeks ago. “Quiz" will nanats'his experience on board the Turakina in our next issue. The ship Turakina arrived in the Bay nt 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, from Napier. A newly fallen meteoric stone, weighing 140 pounds, has been found at Ellsworth, Wis. A turnip weighing 24'bs, grown at Woodville, is considered ths '* boss ” of that district. The New South Wales Government has decided not to send exhibits to tho Paris Exhibition. Eight laborers on the railway Uno near Halle, Saxony, were run over by a train and killed. Many enquiries made why brevities did not appear in last issue—our readers did nsgMM on page 5. During the last'month 838 head ol oathe were exported from Wanganui, 1053 sheep and 187 pigs. Rivers AUpress, a Melbourne Bank elerk, has mysteriously disappeared, and with him £7009 in cash, The as. Waratea io now due here from Wesport. She brings 250 tone of coal tor th* ship Turakina. la the diocese of Grafton (N.8.W.) the Roman Catholic schools have 80 teachers and 4000 pupils. The ex-Empresa Augusta of G irrnany ha* offered a prize of 10,009 marks for a portable military hospita l . The master grocers of Adelaide have decided in favor of the trade dosing early on Saturday evenings. Contractors are reminded that tender* do ie on Monday for th* erection of e house at Whataupoko. Sport in the colonies msans robbing sonstody in such a way that you can't bs put in Chikey for it.—Puff.

Mr Gladstone says he can quote from memory any page of Homer of which tho first line ie given to him. The now home at Wo lington for the relief ot th* aged needy was opeued on Monday by His Excellency ths Governor.

At the Kaikoura sport* on New Year’* Day John P-ap is reported by th* local piper to have cleared Oft Sin. Sliaep-shearing twice * year is being experimented on in Canada, the later dip producing, it is said, a shorter and finer wool.

Singular thing, Peter Oabeok, can lose on* day at Gisborne, win the next, repeat performance at Wellington and nothing said, Tenders are invited for certain painting and papering in oonneotiou with the British Empire Hotel. Tenders dote on Monday next.

A Melbourne land syndicator named Laohal has failed for £333.090, with assets showing a surplus of £610,000. Quo result ot thi boom 1

A slight native disturbanoe has occurred at Kaipara, the Maoris having pulled up a surveyor’s pegs and forcibly removed hi* instruments. Twenty-four sailing vessels, the tonnage of which amounted to 20,254 tons, and four large steamers, arrived in Newcastle on on* day recently. There ins been another find of gold in Wales. The latest discovery is on Garn Mountain at Aber, a spot familiar to tourist* in North Wales. A curious item for the ground of a petition for the winding up of the Atlas Engineering Company, Sydney, was that of a wind bll for £407 8s 6d 1

The Mount Pegasus tin fields district is one of the' “roughest” in the colony, and it is estimated that the road requirement* will cost over £lO,OOO.

Mr Quigley, architect, invitee tender* for plumbing work, etc., at the Presbyterian Manse. Tenders will be received up to 4 p.m. on Monday next. The Victorian Railway Commissioner* hive accepted a tender, at £60.555, for the excavation of a ship canal and dock in th* West Melbourne swamp. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, South Australia has granted to the discoverer of an alleged deposit of petroleum the excluiv* right of searching over 10,000 acres. Fifty-four cases of typhoid were reported to the Central Board of Health, Melbourne, on January 28, five bsing fatal. There were five cases of diphtheria, two being fatal. The soiree, concert and dance at Patutahi was a great success. There was a large atten. dance, and everything passed off splendidly, A good many persons went out from some of them staying for the dance. Eleven sections in the Tokomaru, and other districts are open for sale for cub, or for selection on deferred payment or perpetual lease. Forms of application may be obtained at the Land Office, Giiborae. Mr and Mrs Dougherty return by the Maitai to-morrow morning, after their trip. Mr Miller who has been acting as agent tor the Union Company during Mr Dougherty'* absence will leave for Napier on Friday.

A remnant of the spieling element is (till left in Gisborne, and as a gentle warning they are informed that the use ci insulting lan?:uage within heeiisg ot ladies ie an offsnto or which there can be * severe punishment. At a meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Oleh last week the disqualification of Titiksi by the Sandown Club was upheld, The Club also confirmed the disqualification for lit* ot Te Wbiti (horse) and Ms 8011, tho owner, for corrupt practices. A Melbourne correspondent writes There are numberless smell volunteer fir* brigad a here who are not fit to put out * smell kitchen fire, end their captains are little bettor, end they all consider they should have all their own way at every fire they attend. The Napier people have great hopes ot opening up a booming copper mine in that district. The promoters of the mine ar* Messrs Ormond, Tenner, Nelson, J. H. Coleman, Carr, Baker, McDiarmed, Knowloo, Hoadley, Banner, Brown, and Ca[ tain Rus soli, Tbe schooner Waiapu sailed for Tologa Bay yesterday morning for a load ot wool, but she will now probably go on direct to Auokland, owing to the southerly gale which sprung up last night, and which would prevent her having any communication with Tologa.

The Honorable Society ot Rum Buffers (Wanganui) held their annual plonio last week. The looal paper remarksTh* cask as well as the three-legged rases war* very interesting, being taken part in by several of those Rum Buffers who boast ot mor* of lee* rotundity about the belt. Mr Fricke, German Consul at Auckland, wrote a letter to the N. Z. Herald oommenting on America's conduct in regard to Samoa, and has been sharply taken to task for it. One writer says Germany’s policy is " brutality, bluster and bounoeand add* that Mr Fricke's latter is a fitting parallel to that i policy. The Australia arrives here this afternoon from the North. Last boat 5. The Maitai and Ohan an both duo to-morrow morning, from Southern porta. There will be only th* on* launch going off, leaving th* wharf at • a.m. The Botomahana leave* Aukland today, and arnita* hare on Friday. Th* latt lattttah will leave at 7 la U* *vt*fah