PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 361, 8 October 1889, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

Stop—Watch 1 On his way rejoicing. Boomer will soon be booming. Meeting of Harbor Board to night, Opening of rowing season this afternoon. Sullivan, the hypocrite, gone on the bust. Profuse distribution of the church mites, The hero of muffin worries and prize fights unmasked.

Mr D. Crawford has taken over the Albion Club Hotel. An assistant mistress is wanted for the Ormond school. All accounts against the Albion Hotel must be in by Thursday.

Mr J. R. Brooke has a business notification in this morning’s issue. Mr C. G. Goldsmith has been granted a Native interpreter's license. Why is a certain name omitted from a certain paper's passenger list ? Mr J. Harding will to-day get a transfer to himself of the license of the Masonic Hotel.

The proprietors of the Waipawa Mail are trying to upset the verdict against them in the recent libel action.

A Kansas exchange says that sorghum roots will go sixteen feet for water. That is a good deal more than some men will do. A meeting of about 1200 psople was held in Melbourne, and protested against the proposal to suppress the new Sunday newspaper to be started there.

A sixpenny weekly, on the lines of the Spectator, is to be started in London, in the Home Rule interest, with Mr T. Wemyes Reid as Editor. So much interest was taken in the Fletcher will case in Napier that the News printed the report in pamphlet form, selling them at threepence each. A Sydney man blew his brains out with a revolver, in the presence of his sister, who tried to reason with him, and that failing to take the revolver from him,

John Davies, the Sydney legislator who got sued for getting the Labor Board accounts mixed up (in his own favor), has actually been granted remuneration for his services I A ‘ syndicate,’ says the cable, is being formed to work the Taranaki petroleum I A ‘ swindlecate ’ is what the Poverty Bay people call ths petroleum company up their way.— Napier News. Some New Zealand papers appear to be so hard up for matter that they are devoting column? tp the reproduction of a lot ot rubbish written by a gossoon known as the Benzon plunger. When commenting on the wickedness of a man who is said to have offered a boy two shillings to poke a stick through the Salvation Army drum, a member of that body said the man '■ hadn't as much courage as a dead man,”

The E.P.P. says that disturbances occur in local churches, and then makes pointed reference to "servant girls,” True or not, the E.P.P. shows more ignorance than the girls. There used to be only one heaven and one—the E.P.P. ought to know. According to the Press a member of a Wellington Literary Society, as a proof of the good wqrk that had been done, said “ There’s Mr —, he can actually now stand up and speak rationally for ten minutes. ” The parties don't speak now as they pass by.

Sydney people have become so disgusted at the number of holidays held in that place that when the Government declared a public holiday for the recent Agricultural Show in that city the Court Judges refused to recognise the proclamation, and proceeded to business as usual.

Mr Daniells says that some people call him a fanatic, but if they only knew how little their doing so affected bis sleep or appetite they would not take the trouble. He says he sleeps soundly and eats well, and someone in the ball whispered that from his appears ftnga they quite believed be was speaking the truth, A correspondent sends the following • ” You complain that your contemporary gets its ‘ news of the day ’ from the Napier Telegraph. What’s wrong in that ? No doubt for rapid transmission of news, The Tslrgraph’b hard to gainsay; let I hold'its chief nee is supplying The public with news of the day,"