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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 337, 13 August 1889, Page 3

The R.M.s. Zealand!* had a bad passage across from Auckland to Sydney lately. She Was delayed, having been hove to for 17 hours, a remarkable occurrence with a vessel of the Zealandia's spacious proportions. During the storm one sea struck her on the starboard quarter and played havoc with the after bridge, carrying away the starboard side ot It completely. It must have been a terribly savage body of water to smash the massive ironwork in the manner it did, but it is good news to learn ‘that no further mischief was wrought by it, nor was any of the passengers or crew injured by the storm.

An Auckland correspondent informs us that Mr W. L. Rees may be expected to again enter the political arena at next general election, and the following extract from the N Z Herald’s Wellington correspondence is given :—lt has been known for many months past, though not publicly stated, that Mr Goldie will not again contest a seat for Parliament. In conversation with him to-day, he explained that he was taking this step because he felt he could do so little good down here, and while away from Auckland not only has he to neglect his private business to its serious detriment, but his work as a member of our several local bodies does not get due attention at his hands. He has Sunday-school work, too, in which he takes deep interest, and it has sometimes suffered by his absence. If he felt that he could be of any real service to the country by his efforts here, these considerations would not seriously weigh with him, but he feels on tho contrary that under present oiroumstance he his nearly powerless for good in Parliament. If the business of the country was being pressed forward with reasonable speed, and if members in coming down to Wellington did not so soon lose touch with their constituents, there would be some encouragement to persevere ; but this and the ceaseless wrangling and waste of time in the House has given not only Mr Goldie, but other members, a feeling of u'ter weariness and diegnat for political life. It is understood that Mr Withy’s reasons for not seeking re-election are similar to those of Mr Goldie, The following are the chemical elements a man eats when he is taking a substantial breakfast of tea, bread, butter, bams, and eggs: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen chlorine, flourine, sodium, potasium, magnesium, calcium, iron, maganese, phosphorous, sulphur, silicon, and traces of half a dozen more besides. Mr Spencer Gollan was thrown three times the other week at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s run. He was riding his favourite hunter Dhudeen. The horse bad only arrived from Wellington in the morning after a rough passage in the Penguin. When galloping be showed no signs of being unfit, but he could not rise to his fences. Ths first two falls resulted in only slight injuries to Mr Gollan, but after the I bird he had to leave the field.