News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

■j One of the Government Insurance Can-, fauna made £914 last year out of Commisiona. 40fMegs' of. the British Kiuz's New Zealand mutton, purchased m Leaden - hall marketiat 9d per lb., were sold by the ariatocratie co-operative stores m Regent street at Is Id per pound. There is a flock of 600 sheep m Q jeensland, and no white lambs have ever been io their progeny. Excellent cloth has been manufactured from the wool j and the mutton ia said to be superior to that of white sheep. ■•"="-.■« ■■••*•■■-. Sir Francis, iDillon .; Be,ll was amongst those present at the State" ball given at Buckingham Palace on July 6. Lord Rosebery, one of the most prom inent sportsmen-in -England; has signified his intention of visiting, m corripany with Lsjdy Rosebery, the Australian Colonies dujring the yeari and purposes being m ''■ ywtoria m time to see the Melbourne • Cup. Thedieapest postal servieein the world is jthat;of Japan, where letters are con- , veyed all over the empire for about seven tenths of a penuy. I ' % h A*? , b ° s ° mar ne* now," boasted a prbsy old fellow, "more than thirty years, anji- have never, given my wife a crois word; f 'Thatfs because you never dared, uncle," said a little nephew who lived with th&m, "If you had, auntie would have made you jump;" - - r .<■:•■ Mr Seddoß.^lVLH.R., has joined the Blue Ribbon Army. S.o.says a paragraph in*a Thames paper. We take leave to question the correctness of the statement. The Melbourne ; "Argus "is said to pursue M a, path of pondereus gravity,"— The ■«« Age "on the contrary, goes m for « the light and fantastic." The session is. expected to finish next Saturday. Texas, itis expected, will net £2^oo,ooo froto the -increase of her sheep farms this year. At a Blue Ribbon Army inauguration held on a goldfields township the other evening, one of those wild spoken and strung-minded men pf the " Cloth ?' jajft back his ears Hand shouted but that, <£> jE were possible he ! would explode the wnofe system , of r the liquor trade with dyhaa mite.",.;,, ..; :■- ■ :■•-:.■ .:■:.' Death has been busyof late among the old peopleiin Nelson; the obituary for the morith^cpntaining thenames of no less than seven whose ages exceed 60 years. There^waa a very large.. attendance at the Wellington Freethopght .Hail last Sunday night to listen ' to the lecture dehveredon,the question; » Why does not Godikill the Devil?" The lecturer argued that .the existence of suoh- an evil spirit was not[in concord with the other teachings of Christianity. Captain the Hon. John Oarnegil, one of the naval officers who took part . rathe '"- NewjZealand war of 1846-7, ia just dead. A incensed:, victualler m Wellington [Was fined 40a and costs for failing to traveller. Onlyipart of his house, was furnished. J \f en J? c , r , fer nas beeti accepted by the Golden Crown Company, (Terajwhlti) for a battery, to be m working, order withih fdttr months; ;