News In a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 2

News In a Nutshell.

The number of subscribing members to ted to e 2OO0 me ° riCket ° lub "l° be hmi " The rumour is revived that Sir F. D. BeU.-wilL.apon be succeeded as Agent. General by Sir John Hall. Mr Justice Higinbotham believes with lennyson m " holding no form of creed, but contemplating all." The riative 3 of New Guinea are reported to be quiet, and wellndisposed to Cap. tain Arnut's expedition. In South Australia bookmakers will m future be deemed by Act of Parliament rogues and vagabonds. The elephant presented by the King of Siam to the Sydney Zoological Gardens costs nearly. £l per day to feed. \ Only two kinds of wood enter into the construction of the vessels of the Mesaageries Mariiimes— teak and mahogany. Experience of judicial reform New Zealand is that instead of diminishing lejgal business, it has really increased ft.* ' ■ A Southern paper urires- the formation of an Anti-Shouting Army, the members \■% distinguished by the wearing of a white ribbon. ' <. i South Australia claims to be the only colony of the Australian group that eaa possibly construct a true transcontinental railway. • ': ! .. v The South Australian Register will complete the fiftieth year-of its existence during the month fixed for- the openiqe of| the JubileefExhibitibn. " P ° g The Melbourne Total Abstinence Sooiety have voted a sum of 4*600 as a nucleus to the fund for the establishment of a temperance hospital m Melbourne. A writer m a Melbourne journal declares that " these New Zealand trains if not wearisome to the body like coach travelling, are tedious to the mind." The New Zealand Opposition says the Australasian, must indeed be hardly pressed for a plan of campaign when it is driven to put forward so utterly gsw a demand as a return to Provincialise A rare occurrence, which happenSlfcry 200 years, takes place about 1 ih&M& of the present century, when there will be a leapyear without February having the 29th day. ,r . . , , . .',■,.. It is asserted that 5000 young men' and women break down; everyyear > thronfch the excessive- strain oa them m London. shops,, where, it is said, the average hours of labor of two-thirds of the shop assistances are from twelve to fifteen hours daily. ' iCi • ! ; The approaching extinction of thealephant is. now beginning iro occupy the serious attention df scientific men. j There r is a warning.le.tter.pn the subject m thia/ weeks Nature from Professor frince at ; St. Andrew's. The beat indication of its ' approaching ext^nctioa.is the in«reagine high price dfitrory," * 4 ' :4 •.-'*'■ The Masons, of Wanganui intend to erect a handsome; temple. The building is to have two Stories, and debenturea bearing interest at : B<per cent* lor fourteen years areto be issued to defray the 'cost. . Themyor of Melbourne* has ordered the coffee stalls.to be closed at midnight on Saturdays. Is it criminal (asks the Australasian) to eat a hot potatoe or drink a cup of warm ; .coffee on tae-Sabbath Day? --..-! ■.: - ■ 7 Charges of favorifisin having been made against Mr. Ferras,.the Victorian Government Printer, the Treasury has decided to appoint a board.^qnnauiry. It is stated that Mercury Bay can sup« port three publicih'ousesi but that it cannot support one medical man. '< :'■'■■ ''■ -