Items from the Bulletin.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 598, 23 April 1891, Page 3

Items from the Bulletin.

Mr C. E. Pilcher, Q.C., makes the. seventeenth lawyer in the N.S.W. Legislative Council. Colston, the self-confessed Narbethong murderer, was a Soudan-contingent man. However, we don’t say so to prejudice his dunce of escaping the gallows. According to one of the daily papers, Lady Jersey was “ the first to perceive that an accident had happened at Middle Head. Some people must grovel—even at massacre. General Grant, like Sir Henry Parkes, did not like broad stories. Someone in a company, where he was, began by way of preface, " I believe there are no ladies present." “No," said Grant; "but there are gentlemen I ” A certain Queensland Mayor, now very wealthy through a gold-grab, has resigned because he refuses to tit at the same Council-table as a colored man, When this haughty mayor mended watches in Sydney a few years back, he was glad enough to take a darkey’s little halfcrown. If the ducal rents keep going up at their present rate the grandson of the existing Duke of Westminster should live to possess an income of £20,000 a day. And as he then will be grabbing the subsistence—according to English rates—of 292,000 persons, there will be exactly 292,000 reasons why the said Duke should be hanged out ol the road without ceremony. The N.S.W. alleged Treasury surplus looks at present like a bookkeeper's surplus. Some of the Treasurer's critics say that N.S.W. has a deficiency, just now, of £4OOO a day. Premier Parkes -literally squirmed in his seat at the Federal Convention on hearing Sir George Grey's notice of motion that the Constitution should be submitted to a plebiscite of the Australian people, Since 1815 the Rothschilds have raised for Great Britain more than 250 millions, for Austria 60 millions, for Prussia 50 millions, for France IUO millions, for Italy 75 mllhone, for Russia 30 millions, for Brazil 15 millions, and bo on in a descending goala ' Disgraceful disloyalty in Melbourne Trudes Hull Council, the secretary singing Ritoorallooral amidst a royalist speech. The occasion a shameful debate on Whether to invite Governor Hopetoun (at (ha expense of £7O for an address and pzzj to be present at the eight hours' fete. If he goes after this hie pachyderm must be as thick as that of a rhinoceros. filir Arthur Hunter Palmer, K.C.M.G., President of the Legislative Gonneil Of Queensland, and Acting-Governor of that province, appeared before a Land Court in Brisbane the other day and " ridiculed the idea ” that a Dividing Commissioner could have ridden over one of his runs " in 18 days, (ravelling at the rate of 33 miles per day ” Palmer’s class also ridicule the idea that landless working men have any real grievance. ' The death of Major Bromhesd, hero o> Rurke's Drift, was lately recorded, At the lime ef that really gallant »fl*lr he had keen

a lieutenant 12 years, and since then he has teen a Major 12 years, making 24 years’ service. Contrast this with H.R.H. the Shook, who was with Prince Pion Pion Napoleon in the Crimea. When Grey, in Convention, declared that the Queen could disallow any and every act of a colonial Parliment, he was met by a chorus of dissent. The old man boldly and truly told the dissentients “ they did not know what they were talking about, and that they were ignorant of the Constitution."