PITH AND POINT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 594, 14 April 1891, Page 3

PITH AND POINT.

Borough Council meets to-night. The great showman Barnum is dead. Mr Peryer advertises the loss of a mare. Hospital Trustees meet to-morrow night. Meeting of creditors in Benney’s estate tomorrow afternoon. A Palmerston man has had £10,500 left him ; of course he at ooce deserta the colony now. • New Zealand securities have been steadily going up sinse the present Government took office. An American paper publishes a yarn that Stanley is going to hand over all his gifts to General Booth. In France a baker committed suicide bv jumping into afierceoveo, which soon roasted nim to a cinder. A cricket match .in Melbourne between nne-armed and one-legged men proved a pitiable exhibition. A good deal of grain is s+ill in stock, at Wyndham, Southland, and tha prospect is gloomy for the farmer. At Hampden, Otago, several men showed symptoms of poisoning through their tea having been infused with water taken from a tab that had been used for sheep dip. A recent visitor to Melbourne informs the Wanganui Herald that the city was never in a worse state during the last quarter of a century. , It was Pastor Birch’s fearless preaching against sin in any shape that caused the trouble in the Tabernacle, —so said one of the Church members. In Auckland last week a couple of solicitors were adjudged quilty of contempt for practising without paying the requisite fees; a month to pay in was allowed. The appeal cases bf Tooker v, Searle and the cross motion Rees v. Barker have been adjourned by Mr Justice Oonolly until the next sitting in banco. A Southern paper gives an account of a man who oontiacied blood poisoning through drinking water from a bucket in which the livt-r of a newly-killed bullock had been washed.

In the Bloomsbury County Court a plaintiff sued for the return of £S which be had paid for a parrot on the representation that the bird could talk, The parrot was brought into Court, but, as nothing oouffi induce it to speak, judgment was given for the plaintiff, ’ The body of the late Sir Rich>rd Burton

has b en conveyed from Trieste for in’erment in England, To avoid. -«ff.-ndujg the superstitious susceptibiline.i of ths crew,-the' coffin containing the remains of the explorer was packed in the form of a piano.