News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 243, 15 September 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

A clock is much like a man. When it rises its hand, look out for it. It is going to strike. ' , A gentleman conversing with two ladies to whom nature had denied the gift of speech, called it 'A little exercise with the dumb belles.' It has been conclusively proved that the boiler explosion m Wellington was not 'occasioned by an insufficiency of water. The official report has not yet been made public. Mr C. W. Hursthouse, the survoyor who was subjected to such brutal treat* ment at the hands of Mahuki, has been laid up at New Plymouth with a bad attack of rheumatism since the completion of his journey from Waikato. The business people of Opunake, following the example of those of Hawera, have started a Mercantile Union. - The Opunake paper says that Mr Geo. Harden, engineer and secretary to . the Parihaka Road Board, - has fenced m a suburban section at Rahotq, and has commenced building. • < Converts to the Salvation Army crusade are increasing m Wellington. The police have had their trqubles lightened by some notorious female characters being taken m charge by the Salvationists, and though these ponyert-s may haye mendei their w»ya only. fora |i^v. J et so«»e gppd has \ been m t^eXr eaaes, Mr Brycea'n'd Major yery amicable interview at Upakongaro yesterday. !