News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 228, 29 August 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

•A resident inEast Tamaki,, Auckland,, and the mother 1 of ' a large 'family, was stepping from, a ; chair fto the floor, when, she stepped accidently :, on a rusty nail which penetrated her slipper, and .injured, her foot. Syinp'tbns of bfood poisoning Supervened and after three days' illnessthe cage ended, fatally. An exchange: will have it that the Canterbury goldfields are not rich,enou«h for? a Chinaman to get a living out of theoi*. This must be libel, as it only takes-aboafc appence a day to keep' a Ohing-oboag. The rerenWfor the Wanganui section of . railway for the four weeks ending 16th July was £2729 against £2298 for the. corresponding period last year. Welling* ton, £3578 against £3128 last year. Probably twelve to fifteen Bills introduced by Government will be abandoned this week for want of time; . These include , the Leaseholders' Qualification, Settled Land (dealing ; with, settlements by will, &c. |, Patents, Municipal Cor« poration, Industrial Societies, Property Law Consolidation, Married Women's Property, Auctioneers, Fisheries, Legis* latiye Officers' Salaries, Local Courts, Savings Banks,, and Ijire and^Matine In« surance Companies Bills. A few other Bills are doubtful. At a lecture m the Wellington Athena asum, Jlr'Green asserted that the statistics showed conclusively that the popular tion of the colony doubled itself m the* natural way every ten years. Says the Melbourne Bulletin " There's a lot ot iron m New Zealand, more than enough to build railways and. ironclads,, but there are no brains or enterprise to. use it." .-,....■.. An elder of the kirk,, baying fonnd a little boy and bis sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof m this formnot a jndicion;von.Bjfor achild:"Boy,do you know wherejcnildren go to who play marbUson the sabbath d*y t P" "Ah," say* the boy, «* they gang down to the field by the water below the brig," " No," roared ; out the elder, " they go to hell and are> buraed." The little fellow, really "shocked, oalled his sister ; .f Oomeaway^ Jeanie r here's a man" swearing awf ul^.'" "Johnny," said the acnoohhistreas, "you have been a very naughty boy j now go and stand m the corner with your face to the wall until I tell you may go to. your seat.!' , : «,». Please,, . ma'am," said Johnny, "if I face to. the wall I'll have to turn my back to you andthasckolars^ Won't that be rude ?" ." ' ' Hops ( are now dear m the Old Country, that they are called brewers' 1 diamonds. £50,000 woi this not an uncommon stoifc en hand at a large brewery. A .Danish sailor,' m a ship sailing off Cape Leeuwin, West Australia, Went aloft with » can' oil and wag pitched overboard. The oil left such a trail on the sea that the man was traced and picked up more than an hour after the accident. The defet of lighting Parliament tfuild* ings by electricity up to the 31st of July was £2363 16s lid. A publican at Wellington has been fined 40s and coats, for allowing euchre, to be played on his lioeased premises. ' Mr John Notman, of Wanganui, is, reported to be seriously ill.