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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 509, 20 September 1890, Page 3

Tenders are invited by the Park Company for the right of grazing sheep on their grounds. Some excitement was caused yesterday by a horse that had bolted with a lad named Burch The animal started off from near Mr Wallace’s place on the Kaiti, coming across the bridge and up Gladstone Road. The boypluckily kept his mount until the horse sharply turned co go into the British Empire stable, the boy was thrown. He was not hurt, but narrowly missed being thrown against a poplar * He got bn again soon after, and mastered the animal.

Sir William Harcourt defines a party as “ a combination of men who believe in principles and who are ready upon every occasion to assert and to defend them.” It is very evident that Sir William has no experience of New Zealand politic?, otherwise he would have modiflel bn definition by describing a party as a body of men who profess princip es for the sake of “ the sweets of office,” and who are ready on every occasion, in order to retain office, to swallow their professed principles without compunction.

Late’y the French and Italian troops were manoeuvring near the Frunco-Italian frontier. Here the officers of the respective countries came into sight of one another and civilities were exchanged, with the resu't that it was arranged they should breakfast together. But a difficulty arose in the fact that the officers of Italy could not come in;o France, nor those of France into Italy. Fina'ly the matter was arranged By p’acing the table over a cord which marked the boundary, the French officers sitting at one side of the cord, and the Italians on the other. In this way they gained a good breakfast, and preserved themselves from a breach of military etiquette. We have a piece of news which will be lead with pleasure by some people—-if not by the persons most concerned, then by their acquaintances. It is a well known fact that everyone has brains, but in some individuals they are so compressed as to be of very little value to the owner?, A French physician has successfully performed an operation which has created a great deal of interest. There was a litda-idiot girl, 4-years old, whose head was n»t more than one- hird the normal size. This child could not stand, never smiled, and S' emed not to take the slightest interest in what was passing around her. The physician was seized with the happy idea of trying an operation which would give more room to the brain. He made an incidon in the skull along the median line, extenoing from the frantal suture to the occipital suture, and removed Dart of the substance of the skull on the left side. The operation took place on May 9th, and from June 15 the child began to walk, play with her doll, andhin fact, behave like an intelligent being. A'similar operation has been performed on another child, and it is hoped the result will be equally satisfactory.

A scene unprecedented in judicial annals occurred at the opening of ihe Sussex Assize?, at Lewes (England), last month. The night before Baron Huddleston was attacked with gout so severely that he was unable to leive his bed, and the advice of his medical men was to the effect that to attempt such a thing would be dangerous. Tbe Baron was unwilling to keep the grand jury waiting, and as it would be three or font hours before a substitute could be obtained, the Judge hit upon the happy idea of transforming his bedroom into a court. At the proper hour ‘he court was formally opened and adjourned tn the Judge’s lodgings, and the various officials, attended by 23 grand jurymen, waited upon his Lordship there. The usual formalities were gone through, the grand jury sworn, and then (he learned Baron proceeded to charge th?m from his bed in his usual skilful style. The Judge sail he desired it to be known that it was a public court, and that any of the pub’ic might come in who couM—un invitation which caused a laugbUht xoom being than pretty luill The grand jury went back to the courthouse and applied themselves to the business before them, and later in the day another judge arrived.