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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 436, 1 April 1890, Page 3

The Premier’s late opponent, Mr Maguire, is officially announced as a candidate f< r Egmont at the next election. His friends are of opinion that theelectnrate as now constituted will ensure hie return.

A chattering contest for ladies has been organised at Brussels. It is presumed that the judges appointed have arranged so that they can retire to an imbeciles’ institution when the contest has been completed.

Owing to the number of other meetings on last night, it was decided to postpone until Wednesday evening the intended meeting of the Gisb. rue Foorba’l Club.

The following translation from a Portuguns' paper is given by the Lisbon correspondent of the Standard, who does not. lowever, mention the name of the tempo, a’ e journal:—“War upon the Englishman I War, yes war, upon the gang of thieves, war without truce or quar’er, war in every shape and form. Destroy England’s commerce, show up her dishonor. Let Europe know what cowardly rascals live in its midst rascals who cringe to powerful Bismarck and to the United States, but are insolent when they feel they can be so with impunity. The English are a mean race, who have got on by deceit, embezzlement, villainy, robbery, and corruption. Let every Portuguese who loves his country regard the name of England as svnony mous with the vilest vices. We call upon our countrymen under pain of d fi ement to shake n > En lishmin's hand. If a Portuguese woman listens to tbe addresses of an English thief she will be dishonored. It is our first duty to our children to teach them to hate the accursed spawn of Norman and Saxon pira'es, and to grow up to avenge the affront given to their fathers. Villains I Vi’— lains, all ! And if a squadron cf these wre ches dare enter our T»gu=t’ affront us for being poor in warships, and -0 threaten us with their guns, let the people without hesitation make prisoners of the whole English colony, sparing neither women nor children, and tell the admiral that, if one bombshell falls in Lisbon, every one of these hostages will be put to death without an hour’s delay. The wretches may then do their worst. Lisbon will not have died without wreaking vengeance. A writer in a Dunedin paper says that amongst tbe furniture sold at Government House last week was a common deal table. Only a little table, simply tbat and nothing more, if a few ink spots are excepted. Yet that deal table fetched as much as a handsome mahogany diningroom one. The reason was simple. Little Lord Cranley used to do his lessons at it, and he had spluttered ink all over it with his lordly fingers, and drawn the cabalistic Cranley in a variety of styles al! over it. Dunedinites are intensely democratic, as I have had occasion to remark before, and they showed their democracy by running the price of the table, which a titled child had disfigured, up to a ridiculous sum. The lucky purchaser will put it under a glass case, I presume, and hand it down as an heirloom to his children.