News in a Nutshell,

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 230, 31 August 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell,

Efforts are being made ia Wellington to float a company to undertake the erection of a first-class opera hoiuo iv a central part of the city. Tha necessary plans have been prepared, and the promoters are confident that their efforts will prove successful. New Zealand banks have deposits amounting to nearly £9,000,003, with only 1,000,000, of notes m circulation Coined bullion on hand representnearlv£2,ooo,ooo. J "Poor fellow! tie died m poverty " .said « man pf Ar perjon iately. deceased «• That isn't anything!" exclaimed a seedy bystander. "Dying m porerty is no hardship j it's living m poverty that puts the thamoacrewson a fellow. r" The Spring-time ha» come," observed . the flea, as it saw the lady's finders movi ing m its direction. i A Minister m the north was rebuking one of his hearers for his non-attend-ance at church. Thelaccused vindicated himself on the plea of a dislike to lonjf I sermons. "'Deed, man," said the reverend monitor, a little nettled at the insinuation thrown' out against himself, "if ye dinna, mead, ye may land yersel' whereye'll no be troubled wi' mony sermons,' either lang or short."— •„'_ Well, ablins sac," re« torted John ; " but it mayna be for want o' ministers./' '■•.-. , ■ -.. ■- In a house somewhere, occupied'by a lady of the ".golden-locked sisterhood." therein (says the t Sydney Bulletin) a card o?er the door with the woids "sans pear." To this, some* wag—a minister's son probably— has added, the letters V ity.l' This annoys the churchwardens etc., very much. Now that the thing has become so palpable they can't call there. When the little short man begged the big tall woman for a kias^ she stooped to a^t'y'A' P k n * ° £ ?W»^°. I«d> who died lately, bequeathed. 20,000d01. to his widow and froni.2ooddl, to SOOdol. each all the women who are now old maids whom he courted m his youth. This ro« of a 6(Kiodoi mem^ 009 re * uir&d an o«t% Larrikins beware! two youths havA £1 each besides, for damages done Vby TheEuropean Wifeof Sydney Taiwhanm has been convicted tor smasTiing \Jo window of a dining-room when drunk The KaiDara Steamship, Company is to , b !^°^ "^ h ? ■ Bapki Che 'ovbraraft.- 'The action, for damages by Gibbons, through his foot having been torn off by the~hawser of the steamer, costthejsompahy^n compensation 1 and la w costs £530. .. .■ " mS^RSV* ' *&■ Hl.' Levin, v i/u V-ii i ßßOrr7 t0 he artaat his health st^l continues m an unsatisfactory state. ; He has been granted leave of absence for the remainder of the session. r- The «»^as a destructive fire at^Wryndham .nearfnvercar^lLthis mornmg, by which the Farmers' Arms Hotel aud Hall adjacent, also a store, were burnt to the ground. The fire broke out m the Hall. The s.s. Catalonia took 1800 tons of coal for use bn the i-un home. It is estimated that the .Shipping. Company will require about 20.000 tans annually for their steamers, and as' the coal is obtained from the Greymouth and Wesporf mine» the company. may be, said to be an exteh» sive patron of local industry. A pretty quarrel is m progress at the borough at West Harbour, a suburb'of Dunedm. The Mayor having got posses* sion of a mumoipal document without the consent of: the Town Clerk, the latter revenged, himself by burning nearly all the municipal books*