Pith and Point.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 355, 24 September 1889, Page 3

Pith and Point.

Harbor Board meets this evening. Last year 1357 people died from delirium tremens in England. In the United States 6434 new churches were erected last year. Borough Council invite tenders for forming and metalling Childers road. The passion some women have for attending auctions is a mor-bid taste. It is estimated that there are 20,000 more women in Washington than men. A great many people intend going from Gisborne to the Dunedin Exhibition. The result of the rowing championship was cabled to Australia in 55 minutes. John Leeves the phenomenal fat man, died in New York recently of erysipelas. w Of the 10,000,000 workers in the United Kingdom not more than one in ten is a union man. There is a proposal to establish a farthing evening newspaper in London, to be oalled the Sundial. The death is announced in Taranaki of Mrs Robert Greenwood, who arrived in New Plymouth in 1849. At the Harbor Board this evening Mr Thomson is expected to give a sketch of his Wellington picnic. By an explosion of fire damp in a coalmine near Sydney men (Robinson and Eraser) were badly injured. Whisky is a good anti-fat medicine; at any rate, it has been known to make a man lean—against a lamp post. Three-fourths of the sailors in the Uni ed States Navy are foreigners, the majority being Norwegians and Swedes. Mr Faram had a large number of applioations beyond the limit allowed for horses to graze in the Recreation ground. In many parts of China the Bibles given to the natives by missionaries are used in the manufacture of cheap boot soles. An English paper makes the startling announcement that ‘ the Princess of Wales is growing old.’ Probably it is a fact. At a fancy dress ball in Paris a lady appeared with a miniature Eiffel Tower on her head, a yard high, set with diamonds. A woman and her husband are master and engineer respectively of a trading steamer on the Columbia river, Washington, U.S A. Definition of a ‘ Resident Magistrate ’-—A gentleman who travels from the East Cape to Wairoa in the administration of his duties, Mr Booth. R.M., left for Wairoa yesterday to give the people of that district an opportunity to avail themselves of the justice of this world.

Mr R. A. F. Murray believes that from 60,000,000 to 80,000,000 ounces of gold will still be obtained from the gold bearing belts of Victoria. Mr C. Chinnery, a Christchurch flaxmill proprietor, lost over £5OO worth of flax fibre from his drying grounds during the repeqt gale.—Post. Nearly every lady in the boxes on the grand tier at Covent Garden Opera House, on the occasion of the Shah’s visit, wore a tiara of diamonds. An Englishman has made a toy containing 400 animals and men. They are all put in motion by a windmill, turned by the oqrrent from burning candles. A consular report says that In Paris alone over 16,000 horses are slaughtered for food every year, and of this quantity tWO'thirds are used for sausages. Sir Henry Parkes has officially announced his intention to retire from office in 1896. He has omitted an import mt qualification—if not kicked out meanwhile. W. Redman, one of the leaders in the Irish agitation, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, for the action he took in opposition to the landlords. Mr Watson, a Gisborne legal luminary, has gone to Wairoa to shine over the use or abuse of the law in which the good people of that district periodically indulge, Among the imports ex the Wave Queen is a case of hardware and a case of furniture, consigned to a prominent Gisborne citizen ! Comment is quite needless. Applied to Lord and Lady Fife by * Dagonet ’: — 1 Two souls with but a single thought, Two Fifes that toot as one,’ Edward Stuckey, the young man who was seriousiy injured by a fall from the top story of the Wellington Club Hotel, was at latest accounts progressing favorably towards recovery. Mr Thompson, late R.E., states that the sting of truth contained in his epistle was too much for the County Council. We back the R E. for hanging out the longest without a change, of tactics.

Searle ought to get a tow line in his boat the next time he takes part in a race ; just to give his competitor a chance of being within * oooee ’ of the winning mark at the finish.—Standard, ‘ Some men are never satisfied,’ said Mr Spurgeon to a young man who requested his advice as to getting married, 1 they are like Tompkin’s dog which growled when he was loose and howled when he was tied up.’ A hard task ’ Minister’s Wife ; < You haven’t been out of your study an hour this this week. What is the matter ?’ Minister ; * Some of the congregation say my sermons are too long, and I’ve been trying to write a short one.’ They have a new way of planting orange tree « San Diego, Cal. They bore a small hole and drop in a dynamite cartridge, the explosion of which makes a bole big enough for the tree, and loosening the soil to a depth of several feet, enabling the tree to take root easier. The latest curiosity in nature is a suicidal tendency among sparrows. Some interest was caused yesterday by a bird which was seen suspended, with a stravf or something round ita neck, from above a window in the building oppose the Stasdahd office.

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