PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 358, 1 October 1889, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

Borough Council meets to-night Wool booming—an all round rise. County Conncil invite tenders for road formation near Tiniroto. 000 hundred and twelve sacks potatoes imported by the Waihora. A young clerk in Glasgow, because bis food did not suit him, shot hie mother dead. Tenders close this evening for forming and shingling a portion of Childers road. The small towns of Massachusetts have lost 150,000 of their population since the war. Makaore, the Mahia murderer, was hanged on Saturday morning. He made no confession. It is asserted that the coast line of Alaska exceeds that of the rest of the United States. Eighty thousand New Yorkers are out of town from June until the middle of September. Our Resident Magistrate—Just returned from the Wairoa when he had to go on up the Coast. A man who can't sing and will sing has a depressing effect on the value of reel estate in his locality. The war dogs fondling—Turkey reducing the cost of her army by two million pounds per annum. Truth crushed to earth will rise again, but by that time the funeral of someone's character is all over. A man bearing the extraordinary name of Julius Christ was recently arrested in Melbourne for vagrancy. The Rev. J. Ward says be thinks the words " accident ” and ** fate " should be elided from our vocabulary. The Pall Mall Gazette says that next to a first-class wedding a first class execution commands the widest interest. Ot thirty-three cases for trial at the last Melbourne Supreme Court criminal sittings not ons prisoner was a woman. The absurd cableorammer has actually told us about Piggott's will. If he told us the last Times dividend it might be nows. Eliza Cook, the poetess, is dead. She had a pension of £lOO per annum from the British Government. H.M.S. Repulse cost £217,000, was afloat 20 years (only 11 years in commission), and has been sold out of the service for £7OOO. Industrious Gisboros. Among the imports by the last steamer ware 36 sewing machines for Mr Townley's furnishing warehouse. A collier has been sentenced to death at Derby for poisoning bis daughter, aged 12, to obtain £7 for which the child's lite was insured. The phenomena! turf success of the Hon, J. White continues. He has taken nearly everything worth sending bls horses for at the A.J.C. meeting. Tenders are Invited for carpentering work to be done at the Park Company's grounds, Mr Quigley is the architect, Tenders to be In by 2 this afternoon. Mr Witty's a'dest eon was thrown from hie horse on Sunday, and had his loft arm broken. He was driving a cow home and was near the Park Company's grounds when the accident occurredSo great was the rash for tickets at Auckland to hear the Buffalo Minstrels on a recent Saturday that a quarter of an hour before the curtain rose the police had to interfere to prevent overcrowding. A Sheffield woman was sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude for the manslaughter of a little boy, her nephew, who had been placed under her care at a charge of 8s a week. The little fellow's death was due to brutal treatment and starvation. At least two other persons are now sup. posed to have been poisoned by the woman Winters at Deptford, who died just in time to save herself from being charged with mur. der. In all she had insured the lives of over 30 people entirely unknown to themselves. We learn that Mr J. Carroll, M.H.R. for the Eastern Maori Electoral District, has been asked to contest the Poverty Bay seat at the next general election against Mr Graham, the present member. However, we believe that it is not Mr Carroll’s intention to forsake h4n. Maori constituents.—Napier News. At some religious ceremony at which Arch, bishop Wbately was to officiate in the country, a young curate who attended him grew very nervous as to their being late. ," My good young friend," said the Archbishop, " I can only say to you what the criminal going to be hanged said to those around, who were hurrying him, * Lot us take our time; they can’t begin without us."’