PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 463, 5 June 1890, Page 3

PITH AND POINT.

The Fire Brigade had an excellent wet practice last evening.

Foreign banks entered into competition for the recent Victorian loan.

The next meeting of the Harbor Board takes place this day week. A renewal of license was yesterday granted to the Matawhero Hotel.

The attendance at the Gisborne Public School continues to improve.

Lusk, the athlete, hid his training for Sydney interrupted by influenza. “ Chicory ” is now made in America from beet root, dried and burnt or roasted. Messrs Mooney and Devery believe they have discovered a cure for lungworm in sheep. The weather for the last two days in Gisborne has been beautiful, with sharp frosts.

The P.tutahi School has been closed for a week owing to the number of children absent through illness. It is said Edison's phonograph is admirably adapted for securing the natural sounds of rivers, trees, etc.

Union Literary Society.—This evening, at 7.45 p.m., Impromptu Speaking. Full attendance requested.

Cutlery, buttons, needles, etc., made in Germany, are stamped crith English trade marks, and exported to America. Mr Booth, R.M., left on Tuesday morning on his quarterly trip up the Coast. On his return he goes to Wairoa, via Napier.

A visitor to the Native Commission Court cannot help being struck with the intelligent looking lot of natives who are in attendance.

The real greatness of Prince Bismarck lies in the fact that his one-man power has been employed to attain impersonal results.— Times.

In New York they have a Chinese reporter, wbo, in thoroughly American fashion, makes sport of the peculiarities of his countrymen.

Upwards of 50.000 persons signed the petitions praying that the death penalty be not enforced on the Davies brothers for the Crewe murder.

A native witness at the Commission Court yesterdav said he did not want to answer any question’s until his lawyer arrived from Wellington.

M. Blewitz, the famous Paris correspondent of the Times, would just as soon go to a nanny gaff as to a Berlin Conference, if duty took him that way.

Much interest is bring taken in the forthO'ming hiOal football matches to decile which Club gets the honor of winning Captain Winter's cup.

A N.S.W. legislator says that many people who would be perplexed to poiutout Australia on the map yet draw large incomes from the country. The following letters from places beyond the colony are lying unclaimed at the Post O.tiee : —Edward Lionel Athelstan, John Crawford, and W. N. Thomson.

The Collector of Customs has held an enquiry into the recent accident to the Tuna, and the evidence will be forwarded to the Marine Department. The people round Makaraka will have an opportunity to hear Mr Corrie Johnston tomorrow evening, when ha delivers an address in the schoolhouse. We headed a leader on the Native Com' mission, “ Stiff-necked," after the first sitting, but now the Maoris are being treated with great consideration—overmuch, if anything, At Sydney a coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Sarah Sixsmith, the body of whose three-year old son had been found lying in the mud in an open sewer.

In England there is now an Incorporated Institution of Journalists, Mr Hugh Gilzean Beid being the President. The institution is already a power in the land. In our last issue we gave a condensed telegraphic account of the ath etio meeting at Sydney. This morning we give a full telegraphic description, showing the gre-t success of the New Zealanders.

Why do you object to the sale made by your wife ? was asked of a native witness ar. ihe Commission Court yesterday. Became, replied he, she left all her property to her other relations and none to me.

Broaching cargo aboard vessels has now become a fine art, and very often it is impossible to detect pill >ged packages when unloading.

The natives have, through Mr Sydney Taiwhanga, M.H.8., telegraphed to Government a protest against Lieut.-Colonel Porter acting as interpreter to the Commission, on account of his once having acted as a laud agent.

Appended to each report in the Eugli-h Hansard this session the number of minutes or hours occupied by the speaker is given, so that the electors will know exac'ly how much time is thus taken up. We hope to see the same method adopted in New Zealand. An enraged female, fired with emotion, and armed with a dangerous Gamp, bombarded the Standard office on Tuesday afternoon in search of the editor. The latter disappeared into space, and is still being sought—he is said to be avoiding a case of la grippe. Mother: John, you went to church as usual today? Son : Yes, mother. Mother: What was the text? Son: Well, er—you sea I didn’t get there in time to bear the text. Mother: What was ths gist of sermon ? Son: I can’t tell. You see, mother, I came out just before he got to the gist. A celebrated Franciscan preacher in Rome startled his congregation by pausing in his sermon and remarking—" Gentlemen of the Press, have the goodness to put mv words in shorthand, and publish them for the good of society.” Some preachers hive been known to ask reporters to desist taking notes of the sermon.

A gentleman who objected to his name being disclosed gave £7OO to the Mansion House relief fund, to assist in alleviating the misery caused by recent colliery explosions. The Syndics' Chimber of Paris has taken up the project of the canalisation of the Seine, which is to convert Paris into a seaport, and bring the trade of London to that city. A correspondent writes to the Times—- ** Indifference to Persia might mean the sacrifice of a trade that already feeds hun dreds of thousands of our citizens iu England and in lodia."

A Sydney Chinaman, at the snit of his own countrymen, was lodged in gaol for five months without even judgment being obtained against him—for debt.

The oldest journalist in England—Sir Edward Baines, aged 90—died on March 2. He was senior proprietor of the Leeds Mercury.

A systematic robbery of ship's property is being carried on in the P. and O. boats. On the outward voyage of the Victoria 500 pieces of plate were missed, A Picturesque Atlas agent In New South Wales has resigned his position, because he considers hla life would be in danger after a recent Police Court decision, The members of St. Andrew's Church have decided to retain the services of the Rev. R. J. Williams for six months, and in the interval to ascertain whether any more gentlemen are likely to become candidates. There are now three candidates for the vacancy.

Maud : Just think I It is predicted that, in fifteen years, horses will have become so intelligent that they may be driven without reins. Mabie (regretfully): Yes, but what gooff will it do us ? We shall be too old to B° riding then I

“Are you your brother's keeper!” asked a clerical looking man of an irate citizen, who wm loudly abusing some absent acquaintance. “ Falx, an'oi consider that a very impertinent question, sir.’’ “Why?” “Because o’im in charge av the chimpanzee at the parruk."

Quite United,—" X thought you were going to marry Miss Gold th waite, Charley. Haven’t you bad some aspirations in that line ?” “ I had, but it was no go. Her family ware all opposed to it.” “ Well, bat if the girl herwlf——" “1 uld ail the tanilyi IM Mf of