PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 369, 26 October 1889, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

Begone dull care. Frank Lincoln and spons gone, too. Who is to be our new Parliamentary rep. ■ A Sydney woman got a divorce from her husband and now wants to make him a bankrupt. A sound discretion it not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never rf peating it Tauianga is going ahead. Last Saturday they got 37 barrels of whisky and 178 cases of spirits imported. A ‘ colossal and craven cur ' was what Sir Henry Parkes was called the other day by an excited member. A Southern paper says that Mr Fergus has not only been a failure, but a noisy and rather pretentious failure.

While tennis continues to become mor B popular in the colonies, the feminine love for cricket is increasing. Query—Where did some of Frank Lincoln’s audience raise the wind ? Do the creditors pay for these smiles? It is understood that Mr Gladstone intends to attack the Welsh Church and Lord Balis* bury’s foreign policy. Messrs Nelson Brothers’ freezing works at Waipukuran are expected to begin operations about the New Year. It is believed that the Oil King has actually arrived at the springs, after a lengthened and interesting voyage.

The elective franchise for women was made part of the constitution of the State of Wyomingjon September 19. Waatara Wi, charged with murdering Karauria, in Hawke's Bay, will be tried in Wellington on Monday next. The N. Z. Herald gently reminds the Go* vernment that it is time to take some action in regard to the Urewera country.

An Otago paper considers that Mr Hislop’s readmission to the Ministry completes a farce which doos that gentleman little credit. Sir Harry Atkinson, Sir George Gray, and Sir Robert Stout believe in Home Rule, and the talented Rev. F. M. Isitt speaks out boldly io its favor. A Waikato correspondent says John Bryce is hie Oliver Cromwell, for whom, as Dictator, he would willingly exchange the present Government. Nearly as much fuss is being made over tha visit of Major-General Edwards to New Zea-' land as there would be if General Wolseley paid us a visit. A man claims to have a wife so hot tan-, oered that he can light hie cigar from tla Hash of her eyes. Ha got a good match when he married her. How we cling to old habits. We notice that nearly all our exchanges are still franked, though the new regulations do away with the useless stipulation. “ Hogwash ” is what a Napier paper terms the rubbish that is being cabled to New Zealand about the opinions of Australian papers on New Zealand politics. The girl who was lately seen in the King country, and was reported to be n European girl who had bean lost many years before, has now been proved to be a half-caste. The death Is announced of Mr Patrick Fitzgerald, and old Opotiki settler, and one who was a brave soldier, and subsequently a firstclass settler in the Opotiki district. If a woman would believe less of what a man tells her before marriage, and more of what be tells her afterwards, the wedded state would be a much more harmonious affair. Tha Lyttelton Collector of Customs has received £3 conscience money from an unnamed person who admits having defrauded the revenue. This is the fourth instance of ths kind in fourteen years. An individual calling himself Dr Shannon gave the Riverton people a lively time lately during one of his sprees. He was proved to be an old Auckland " character.” He was sent up for fourteen days. “ As a great admirer of Mr James Carroll," the Opotiki Herald publiehed in full I recent article in the Standard in reference tc that gentleman, and added that it had much pleasure in giving publicity to the article. The Waiapu correspondent of the N.Z, Herald says that by an ” ingenious fiction " Mr Booth is known as “Resident” Magistrate at Gisborne, and then the writer goes on to show what a hard worked official Mr Booth is.

A french scientist has been producing artificial emeralds by fusing silica, alumina, and gtucina, with traces of oxide of chromium, with acid molybdate of lithia, at a temperature nf from GOO degs. to 700 degs. for fifteen days.

They have now got a queer case in Rangitikei. The Advocate says We trust that • thorough investigation will be made. Whenever a husband has all the debts and the wife all the assets, matters should be probed to the bottom.

A recent discussion about the height of tress in the forests of Victoria brings from the Government botanist the statement that he has seen one 525 feet high. The chief in. epeotor nf forests measured a fallen one that was 485 feet long.

All local arrangements for the next holiday were made in the belief that it would be held on Mondav, but the Postal authorities keep up the Saturday. In Auckland and other planes it is understood that Monday wilt be the general holiday. Uoeelffsh and noble acta are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in the earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny amidst the melancholy waste of ocean.—Dr Thomae. Wanganui “Christians" are going it. The pari.hioners of Christ Church want to have the incumbent replaced by a more energetic one. After a personal discussion that would be considered offensive in a publio house, a motion was carried by 9 to 7 that the Biehop be petitioned to remove the incumbent (Mr Tudor). Twenty-five ladies have got up a protest against the re marriage of widows, and a part of their case is thus stated :—“ How unjust, when there are notoriously not enough husbands to go round, that any one, woman should be allowed to monopolise two/ or even more than twc.*' The Fielding paper cays that Mr Potts, manager of the Raumia Station, Rangitikei, 7500 acres, has written to Mr Keilier, his principal in Scotland, bis intention to dispose of the whole of the cattle on the estate, about 3000 head, and to cultivate flax. Mr Egeson caused quite a storm in Sydney by his predictions of a drought. He got hauled over the coals for it by his superiors, and the publication of alarming prognostications is not to he permitted in the future without special sanction. A Wellington man had a row with bis wife and rushed sway and jumped into the sea. Several individuals fished him out, and he

cleared without making any explanation. On the police enquiring it transpired that the man was a splendid swimmer, and made a pretence of suicide just to frighten his wife. A lad named Davis met with a painful accident yesterday. He was employed by Mr Skeet and was one of the staff engaged on the Park grandstand. In the course of the operations a sheet of iron was blown off by the strong wind, and caught tha lad, making a painful gash on the arm, Do not judge a man by the clothes he wean; God made one and the tailor the other. Do not judge him by his family, for Cain belonged to a good family. Do not judge a man by hie failure in life, for many a man fails because he is too honest to suc-

ceed-and some men succeed because they are too dishonest not to fail. Thus says the Lyttleton Times* As for poor Mr Mitchelson, no one oan accuse him of noise or pretence. He appears to guage his own capacity much better than those politicians who offer him seats in cabinets. He never says anything unless forced ; be never says anything unless obliged.' But what about his entertainment of Te Kooti? Four Christchurch boys mobbed an old woman, and pilfered articles from ter basket. They go 1: caned by Mr Baldwin, the school, maeier, and the father of one boy summoned Mr Baldwin on a charge of assault, Ofcnurro the case was dismissed, tha B-noh ennsidering ifae master had been too lenient, It is coming to something when parents encourage tbsil boys io snob rassaUty,