Echoes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 434, 27 March 1890, Page 2

Echoes.

” is the latest description of a habitual drunkard. The R. M. Court will this morning probably have to deal with the troubles of a nice young bachelor and his landlady. Mr Bryson died yesterday from the effects of an accident. Mr Marcroft returns thinks to those who have patronised his business, and also gives a reminder about unpaid accounts. A report has again been circulated that exonerating evidence will be brought forward in the celebrated Maybrick case. Footballers staking advantage of wintry weather—the ball rolls on Saturday. Mr DeLautour lectures at the Mutual Improvement Society on Monday—everyone invited to be present. The Union Literary Society will soon begin its session.

Some wretches seem to have forgotten the existence of a conscience. A fellow named Hyums ji'ted a Miss Mill and got dropped in for £l5O for breach. Now he has gone through the mill, and jilted Mr Jellicoe too for over £6O costs. Darnley, the Gisborne nag, made a grand race of the Napier Park Hurdles—beaten by a head. Cynical also ran a good raoe for third in the Cup. The Vaccination Inspector is on the warpath, Borough Council and Whataupoko Road require tenders for sundry works. Napier politicians discussing probable effect of new electoral boundaries. The News thinks the change a great gain tor the Liberals. The influenza epidemic has produced another epidemic—persons bursting to make jokes more calculated to make one sneeze than laugh. The Wanganui Chronicle has good grounds tor knowing that the Premier wilt not desert the constituents who have so long stood loyal to them, unless they signify a desire for a change. That’s queer-tell us something we don’t know. Barnum might give hundreds to discover a politician who would desert constituents if it suited him better to hang on. We shouldn’t like to see Sir Harry out of the House, but the diseased imagination of his supporters is always discovering snakes. Wanganui always tries to come out top. One of the patrons of the Library there employed himself cutting illustrations out of some of the books borrowed. Our Sydney correspondent is a great admirer of Henry George. The other day a Christchurch man filed—not his schedule, but his nose. Dozed off, bobbed his head up and down, and eventually pinned hie nasal protuberance on a cruel document file A ‘ ’ shore ” gentleman went out to the Wairarapa on Sunday and asked the steward if they had la grippe on board. The courteous officer was very busy, and said he would Bee in a minute. He then rushed to the passenger list, scanned it over and kindly intimated that Monsieur La Grippe was not a passenger ! And the obliging steward got laughed at. Mr Samuel M.H R., says he retires because he could not secure that consideration for his district which he desired. A Southern man boasts he has done more good for his district than had been done by all the members of Parliament ever returned. Our present member can also boast as much, because all the other members did was practically nil. Wirth’s circus took £BOO from the Wairarapa. Gisborne is said to be hard up, but we’ll guarantee Wirth won’t find it so. If a mon wants to cut his throat it's little grod hanging him—so says Judge Richmond. A “ meluneholy” affair in Gladstone road on Tuesday afteimon. Cables say it is reported Mr Gladstone intends to retire from political life. Rather stale —only about the 500th time we have heard it. The G.O. M. is still a match for al! h’s clever opponents. Sir Henry James favors light punishment for criminals. He says evil has never been flogged ont of a man and certainly good will never be fiorg ] d into him, G. A. Sala’s new wife was some time ago divorced from her first husband. She is an attractive woman, a rapid stenographer, and a journalist of experience. She was Sala’s private secretary. Mud scrapers at work in Gladstone road yesterday. Something new for March. Runaway horses have now become quite an institution in Gisborne—three days wiihout a bolt, and an earthquake or something startling mav be feared. Brains or energy short on the training wall. The Engineer, asked when it would be finished, replied it would go on quicker when the pier was stopped and the foreman could be sent to the (training) wall. Tuapeka County Council has limited to six the number of horses carriers are allowed to have in their teams on Connty roads. In consequence indignation meetings are threatened and certain Councillors are to be asked to resign. The secretary of the N.S.W. Licensed Victuallers, likes his whisky pretty firry. In a letter to one of the papers he explodes after this fatbion—- “ Say what we will, think as we wish, cot as we like, scream, rave, stamp, dance, fume, and swear, we cannot alter tho truth that the chalk-fed and cold-blooded people are dying out and dropping behind, and that the people who drink in moderation are possessing the whole earth and improving it.” If that Secretary travels through life at such a rate there is a danger of his soon possessing at least a few feet of earth. The Wellington Press says theN.Z, booksellers' shops afford moat complete and damning evidence that we are not an educated people and that we are not an educated nation. An Oarnaru paper is not rn affectionate terms with the Ministry. Of the Puhipuhi affair it says—- “ That highly respectable and influential body of galvanised mummies and marionettes known as the Atkinson Ministry, and erroneously described as a Government, have added one more chapter to their valuable 1 anthology' ol muddles and messes, 1 *