BREVITIES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 266, 28 February 1889, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Rbt. John Triphook, rector of Schull’ has just died, aged 107 years. A nugget if gold weighing 115 oz has been found al the Piiburn goldfield (.8. A.) The Maori footballers dtfeated the Leeds St. John Club by two goals and three tiies to nil

In the Galgong district,. Victoria, 4233 acres of la'd sown with wheat only yielded 476 bushels of grain. A miner named Andrew Tressider, was killed in the South Bulli Colliery through a piece of coal falling on him and breaking his back and leg. A be-keeper in Waikato attributes the wholesale slaughter of his bees during the last spring to the Paris green used in neighbouring orchards. A miner named Thomas Bagwell, em ployed in Bl- ck 14 mine. Broken Hill, has been killed by falling from the “ cage ” to the bottom of the shaft. The Young Men’s Christian Association in Brisbane, which has long been in financial difficulties, is to be wound up. The overdraft is £lBOO, which is guaranteed by 14 gentlemen. A young man, to avoid paying a small fare, jumped from a tram at Dublin. His last utterances were—“ My arme and legs are on the line. This was all for the sake of two nence.”

member of the Chamber, M. Reinacb, tried to interest that body in the lepeal of the decree that outlawed the Duke d'Aumale ; but he has been unable even to obtain a bearing.

A few days ago a man named Evans wa“ drowned at Breakfast Creek t eceaaed’. ffiamswe dived in the water and recovered the but the shock was too great fur him, he has since died in he hospital. The English turf is about to receive a new patron in Colonel North, a S uth American millionaire, who intends to carry on opera tions on a gigantic scale. Colonel North has Already 1 -uucbed out heavily in coursmg. A cowardly i utrage is reported from Wai • ganella (N 8.W.), where some pigs, the pr . petty of a Mr H. F. roynter, were bon th y mutilated; several of them were killed on • right, and those left alive had their eyre gouged out. A band of Cooranbong larrikins has used an old man named Thomas in a bn tai manner. Bound the old man was fixeu a chain, with which be was dragged bom an hotel into a yard. He was louaa in a pitiabl Condition. On a late Wednesday, at Barmedmai, (N.B W»), a centipede 6iu. in length crawleu Up a Mr H. Egertou'a sleeve, aud he killed i While it was crawling over the pit of hlStomach. No injury, save alight scratches. Was sustained, A Cobbler at Leyden, who used to attend the public dispu aliens held at the Academy, was once asked if he understood Lai in. ’No, replied the mechanic, ' but I know who is wrong in the argument,* ’ How ?’ asked his friend. ‘ Why, by seeing who is angry first ’ Prado, who has just been executed, con tented to go to the scaffold quietly if be was Assured that his body would not be given up for disses ion. His request was granted One of bis wives, and the mother of his child. Who was the means of convicting him of the murder of the demimondian, ba- just been married. He bequeathed her hia “ bead ”aA Contribution to her trousseau.