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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 674, 20 October 1891, Page 2

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It is now quite plain that British Postmaster General Raikes died of Henniker Heaton. Who are the five gentlemen reputed to have purchased for £50,000 the rights of Adams’ consultation sweep? Well, the list includes a Q.O, and a certain Australian Minister of the Grown. The electorate bf Sturt, N.S.W., is Only 45,000 square miles,

S.A. Civil Service Commission died last week, aged fotlr years. It lived on fees, and expenses, and usually recommended just enough savings to balance its own expenses. The new N.S W Parliamentary refresh-ment-room committee are on the opposite tack to their predecessors. A very prominent politician who owed £3 was refused a meal the other day. Grey is “an orator, a scholar, and a patriot,” but Parkes is only “ a great figure in colonial polities ” in Christie Murray’s judgment. Chanter, Dickens and Hassals, M.’s.L.A., desired to give a vote to N S.W. property holders resident in Victoria, Someone proposed vote by cable for English absentees, likewise the provision of asbestos electoral rights for the use of Sheolites who have left their property behind. The champion mean man turned up in Sydney the other day. He got married at 11 a.m and spent the rest of the day calling with his bride on no less than seven printing establishments getting tenders for 25 wecjdlng-cardc, A Bathurst'(N.S.W.) undertaker basin his employ a cheerful young man who, the other day, went out while drunk to deliver a coffia. He forgot th a number of the house, and, bearing his ghastly burden, kuoelsgd at every door until he found the right one. Duncan Gillies recognises woman's Superiority over man ’’ in certain ways," but doesn’t see that ahe is rmallified to vote. Woman’s proper sphere iaia't home, says the nice old gentleman'. Which being the case, rye rise to ask bachelor Duncan when he intends to provide somebody with a sphere cf her own, where she can prove her superiority in certain ways ? An appeal. “to which was appended the signature of a noble lord," was recently forwarded to a writer for the London Echo, asking for a subscription to the " Society for Providing Wives for Australian Sheepshearers.”

Millionaire Postmaster-General Wanamaker (U.S ) asked the little toys of his Sunday school each to bring three bricks as a contribution to building their church, They did, and at latest thirty little boys were on remand for stealing bricks,