PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 593, 11 April 1891, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

Volcanic eruption. Flour is up in price. Rush of sic imsrs to-day. More butchering in In lia. Waihora arrives this evening. Portuguese »pitffi<ss still blustering. Wheat has “ riz," and wool is booming. The jury list was being revised yesterday. A business man u never put out by a good puff. i h< j Czar has just got another scare from a Nihilist. Rev. J. V» ard delivers- farewell sermons to marrow. Half-mile race on footbill ground next Saturday. A Fevers heat wave pa?sed over Victoria last month. Native Minister passes through Gisborne this evening. Pitt and Maguire dissolving partnership—bii< sale now on. - Hon. Mr Seddon expected to j>ass through Gisborne to-morrow. In Suu hwark a child fell upon a pair of BCissors and was killed. There was a great Maori wedding at Tokomaru on Thursday. Argentine Government said to be bankrupt—quite an old story. The Nuhaka 2 block subdivision comes on at the Court on Monday. Five yc-ars is the term for which the Triple A'liance has been renewed, havq been serious floods in the Oairus.-dißitiot, Qu leng end. Suspected murderer of the old man Veitch has been committed for trial. No mail by Southern Omni last night—grumbling as a matter of aourM.' ■’ An American claims to have'hrvented an effi dent machine for hop pi iking. Captain Dawson, new of the steamer Wareatea, was ashore on Thursday* A young woman lost her life at Birmingham through swallowing a falae tooth. - -Ths Italians who gut so aaciied over the N:-w Orleans lynching are calming down. There are 41 males in Napier Refuge, many ou bid era mysteriously drifting that way. Bir Harry Atkinaop and Captain Russell return to New Zealand by the Manapeuri. Secretary of Eng i h Beamee’a Union got •dx weeks’ imprisonment *fur irrtiling the men.

Forty potato digging machine entered for •i xWial to be iMid at V.otoria, on Apiil 9. A > adnrir-r.of Dr Koch thinks that in time a whole series of uurauve lympQa will be discovered. In twelve months 1100 puw-s and portsmonnaies were lost iu cabs aud 'buses in London. A child Whs fatally burned at Dundee through being held on a fie by an mesne leiaiive. . On Thursday James Murphy was fined 10s for drunkenness, aud got 7 days fur indecency. There is Mill irritation and uneasiness 00 the Loudon money market, though money is abundant. The popular Mr Maguire carries on the Gisborne branch of the dissolving firm’s business Napier Frie dly Societies art ftoving to get th** exclusive services of two medfoal men at £5OO a year each. Victorian corre pondenoe with Great Britain has nearly doubled tines the reduction nt the postage to 2J i. The brave miner Hyudmann, who was injured white rescuing those buried alive by the Huntley disaster, is dead, A Napier correspondent doesn't think a cart will havo to be hired co carry away the 'divide-nd in W. Brasswy'a estate. Importers of reapers and binders in VI storta arfe now endeavo-irtng the system trials done away With. A 6ft Gin shark was caught by those on the Waraate-* on Tauraday pight. Such monsters are often out th th-i bjy. Teaoher (to olaM in geography) t If I should dig a hole through the earth where would I come out ? Small boy : Oat of the hole. Thd Inspector says that the schoolmaster's house at Patutahl is not fit for a human habitation—a new building is Io be erected. The man in the street save Lidy Jersey pompOH63 her husband’s speeches, but Jersey xs credited wiih having a good supply of brains, Many London milksellera adulterate the fluid with boracic acid, which is a cheap preservative, but. injures the digestive organs of the consumer. The wo '-known publishing firm of Messrs Marcus VV rd and 00. are likely to become Australian agents for the Art Album of New Zeatand Flora. Prizes to the value of £lOOO were to be given at the Bathurst agricultural exhibition on April 8,9, and 10; there was lobs a grand trial of sheep dogs. It is anticipated that a good trade in stud sheep will spring up between Victoria and South Africa—a dozen rams wars recently sent to ths latter place.

Committee of Invercargill Athirneam au'horieed Home firm to send out ivr<J»*® books every month for twelve months, total cost not to exceed £25. A (W tiro*) sheepfarmer being iofoimed by natives that twe stegs had worried bis sheep, he went to the man's place aud shot the dogs. Persons newly arrived in Cuba are inoculatad against yellow fever by means of moiquitoes which have been oontaminated by siingi'ig a yaitaw fever patient, Waipiro people are quite proud of the smart Svviun brothers, who have returned after a good holiday whiuli their atfalstio I prowess enabled them to enjoy. A contemporary calmly tells its readers that <he Marine Engineer h*s got a repute* tion to sustain. H»w of en was the sama thing said about awwtber Engineer f “ I don’t see ’em,” said Tommy, looking out of th* window after the rain.” “ Don’t see what ?” a«ked his m >tber, “ The nets and r dog-4. Papa said 11 Was reinin' •«." The heated summer now is o'er, The perspiration leaves the brow | The man who used to shut the door, Will always leave it open, now. Mr Mansfield, who m one of ihe largest sh »e manufaalQtara in the world, and has been Mayor of Northampton, tramped into that town yeare ago a shoemaker out nf work. A Maori woman in Court on Thursday objected to pay one tradesman because a fsnet had put round her money by another; the Court proceeded as it -there were no fence, A man who was a tramp eight years ago, and who recently dtad io Oregon, left £5OOO to a woman uho once gave dim a night’s lodging, a small sum of money, and Busts good advice.

Waicoa Guardtan advises some grumbling tourists that instead of oomplatoing about getting their feet Wet in landing, they should i <ke uff their boots and socks, and a*so carry the ladies Ashers, Sydney correspondent bn Miss bre mii of promise—“ As lhe oase is now being heard, I cannot tel’ you any mire about it than that tho reports of il are the best read things In the papers.” A combination of reaper and binder manufactures, with 85,000,000 10l capital is propped; it will be one of the largest combiuttions ever developed in America. It may have no small effect in the colonies. O.d gentleman (putting a tew questions): Now, boys—ah—can you tell me what oom-* maudment Adam broke when he took the forbidden frui-? Small scholar (tike a shot): Please, sir, th’warn’tno commandments then, sir I