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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 667, 6 October 1891, Page 2

Down in Hawaii (says a Yankee paper) the country is overrun with correspondents, female newspaper men and alleged reporters. In future, for the protection of the country, it is proposed to have each journalistic immigrant show his or her commission, poll tax receipt, marriage certificate and receipted hotel and laundry bills.

The South Canterbury Times remarks: — It is very wall for New Zealanders to '• crack up ” their country,—blow is fashionable throughout thia filth quarter of the world—but we should like to see the taran-ta-ra over our agricultural superiority corroborated by price lists better than this. This year Naw Zealand and South Canterbury especially, has sent away a large quantity of potatoes to Sydney, and in spite of our magnificent climate, unsurpassed fertility of soil, and so forth, New Zealand potatoes are always quoted a long way below local grown. Yesterday, for example, the market prices, cabled were for Circular Heads (local supplies) £2 15s per ton ; for New Zealand, •• fresh in,” £1 2s 61 to £1 ss. That is to say the highest price realised tor New Zealand potatoes was not half the price of the local grown. A fact of thia sort is a heavy discount upon the grandiloquent assertions of New Zealand’s agricultural superiority. But perhaps it is not our country but our farmers who are at fault, in carelessness in choice of seed, carelessness in cultivation, and selecting tubers for shipment.

The following is the paragraph for which one Murdoch sought to recover £lOO damages from the Wairarapa Daily :—” The calm and peaceful slumbers of Eketahuna were suddenly aroused on Saturday night by some of the most awful and hideous sounds, such as the beating of old keroeene tine, the ringing of belle and the whirr of song. On meditating as to the cause, and ooueoting one's scattered senses, it suddenly dawned on the mind that it had been reported that a well-known citizen who has had several ups and downs In life, and who now fills the more honorable position of reporter, lawyer, etc., had taken unto himself a partner (whether for life one could not ascertain), The youth of importance entertained the happy couple for about half an hour to the tune described. Needless to say wine and cake were distributed in abundance,”

The telegraph companies of the United States are on the eve of abandoning the employment of women as telegraph operators. Mischievous Cupid will have to bear the reeponsibility of the close of a popular profession to the fair sex, and the mere mention of the word " love ” in any of tho large telegraph offices has much the same effect on the managers and superintendents as a red rag would have on a bull. The managers complain that no sooner does a woman operator become an adept in handling the wire than she falls in love with one of the male employes of the office, quits work, and gets married. This necessitates all the trouble of trainng a new operator, and of annoying changes in the staff. The tnanaeers have attempted to deal with this perversity by eliminating wherever pos« sible all the male clerks from offices where women are employed. This, however, has merely led tothe development of anew feature of matrimonial business, of which the telegraphers have tbe monopoly. This may ba described as ** marriage on tick.” To fall in love at first eighth the lot of many, but it is reserved tor telegraph operators to fall in love without any eight at all. The little telegraph instrument, with lie brass key and eoundingplate, ia made to take the place of cyee, and to stamp upon the brain the image o( th 4 one adored though a thousand miles away. It is said that an experienced operator ean tell from the sound of tbe click whether the sender is a mar, or a wonjan. The toucl} <3 the latter is more delicate than that ot a man, and the little bright blue spark on tb< sounding-board from a woman’s hand has often sent a thrill of joy through the hegr( ot the receiver at the other end of the wire, and kindled the fire of love in hie soul.

The Standard says it is rumored that startling developments in connection with the Palmerston Licensing Committee are likely to ensue shortly.

Tho Wairarapa Daily io assured by a ehSeptarmer of the Lower Valley that the percentage 0! lambs from his flock will.thie year reach nearly twd hundred,;