PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 359, 3 October 1889, Page 3

PITH AND POINT.

Price, at the wool auctions remain Hem.

Skating exhibition at City Rink to night. The Gisborne Borough Council office is in Lowe Street. Mr J. R. Scott will smile on his creditors thia afternoon.

Mr W. Cooper hia for sale 900 2-tooth crossbred sheep. Gisborne Harbor Board invite tenders tor a supply of coal. " News of the Day ’’ —" Scissors ’’ in Napier Telegraph. Birmingham fired by neg.oas, but not John Bright’s Birmingham. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Tahiti close here on Saturday, at 7 80 p.m. The Rotterdam police gave the mob lead and cold steel in exchange for stones. Waipawa Mail in for a few hundreds, but serve it right—no sympathy for such a case.

Chief London •' turtle souper.” Sir Henry Isaacs has been elected Lord Mayor of London.

Thomas Irvine, who died the other day, was for a long time cook in the Union Company’s service. The Vagabond saya that Germans who marry Samoan lassies mike better husbands than Englishmen or Frenchmen.

New Zealand Customs returns for last month show an advance nt nearly £20,000 on the corresponding period of last year. The Bev Mr Munro says that in Auckland men live on the vice of their wives and mothers on that of their daughters. Mr Hislop, who has been, posing as a martyr at Oamaru, only beat Mr Dunn by a majority ot 136. Taiboa, until the general election.

The cablecrammer has got so hard up that he now tells what a colonial upstart has to say about the servant girls in the colony.

The Hinemoa has returned from the Chatham Island, but there is no word yet of their getting up an agitation to secure their independence. A Hokitika Chinaman has got six months’ imprisonment for manufacturing and selling as gold a composition of minerals plastered over with gold.

The N.Z. policyholders in the British and Colonial Insurance Company are getting anxious about their premiums, which they wish to be returned, Things are brightening in England. The revenue for last quarter was nearly a million greater than that of the corresponding period of the previous year. The Napier News smashed a forme, nnd treated its readers to a p go of nothing. The example is one that might well be followed by some other newep<pers. The Vagabond says that the German Company in Samoa carries on a wholesale system of slavery, a drunken brute named Saffings being a w. 11 paid blackbirder, “ Poverty at Bay ” is how Mr Christie Murray head, an article on the recent strike., The heading doesn’t come up to the Bay of Poverty which Captain Cook christened. The cause of the great amount of vice in Auckland is assigned by the Rev, Mr Munro to late hours, dancing, man-of-war sailors, bad literature, and ton much flesh for fqqd, Mr Clhrl.tie Murray, tha novelist, says it would he absurd for him to pretend in a month to have learned enough to teaoh the Australian eagle to what tune she shall mew her mighty youth, The telecrammer told us that To Kooti wanted to stand for the East Coast electorate. We are anxiously waiting to hear whether Chemia is going to stand for. a Wellington seat against Major Atkinson.

In New South Wales a cabman took a revolver and followed a bushranger who had robbed him and some other., The police also followed and by mistake fired at and seriously wounded the cabman,

A Gisborne man just before clutching the whitewash brush told his creditors he would guarantee to go out and collect £lOO in a day; yet the servant, were looking blue because their wages were some time in arrears I Pretty cool,

Copies of the filthy Sydney publication which Parke, refuses to suppress have reached Gisbornre. Is the N.Z. Govern meat as knock kneed as the Parkes hypocrites! If not it i. time they showed an example for the sake of morality.

The Sir George Grey Ho-el, at Waereqga-a-hilta, has been taken over by Mr Cornelius O’C 'unor, who is well known throughout the district and was formerly proprietor of the Ormond Hotel. Mr O'Connor ought to succeed in making the hotel popular in every way.

A young gentleman ir» the Harrow Cricket Eleven receives from his father £5 for every wicket he takes in matches and a guinea for each run he makes. The young man made £l5O from that aouroe of revenue last year, and appear, to have an even better thing this season.

Captain Russell has joined the N.Z. Cabinet, He tower? above men like Hillop and Fisher, but it is hard to explain how a strong Freetrader like Captain Huaaell can identify him*olf with a Protectionist Ministry, He is one of the Use man io Parliament whom we would have thought capable ot tach a political lomuMHlti