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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 396, 28 December 1889, Page 3

Wesleyan Services.—Gisborne 11, MrR. H. Scott, ? Rev. J. Ward ; Waimata 11, Makaraka 2, Rev. J. Ward.

Several of the prizes to be competed for at the sports in connection with the Presbyterian Church, on Naw Year's day, are now on view at Mr W. Good’s, together with various other trophies.

Trade Paradox—The Reverse of Square Business—Making •• corners.” Fashion.—Fashion has been cleverly hit off as ’’an arbitrary disease which leads all geese to follow in single file the one goose that sets the style.” Mother (reading) i •• A machine has been Invented that will fling a man 1500 feet into the air.” Pretty Daughter i •• Horrors i Dca't let pa hear of it.” The shortest Will on record is said to be the following, maqeln 1789:—“ I have nothing ; I owe a great deal, the rest I give to the poor.” A man who had never tasted a drop of spirituous liquor has died in Constantinople aged 125 yeapj.

The postage of a letter from New York to San Francisco, overland for a distance exceeding 8,000 miles, is one penny. _ The New York Tribune objects to Australian competition in the American wool market, on the ground that American woolgrowers ought to be effectively defended in thqiy industry against the "destroying and degrading influence of competition with wool grown by serfs, ravages, and convicts,” The Tribune is a little bit weak in geography, though its intentions may be good. There have been 230 cases of typhoid fever at Melbourne during the past three months, and 31 deaths. Thia is unusual, .considering the wsather. Ju diphtheria there have been 97 cases reported within the past three weeks, and a proportionate number Of deaths to the typhoid returns. Both diseases are not increasing, but on the contrary appear to be somewhat milder.