News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 246, 19 September 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

--Baer_.an.<i. trouble, are frequently brewed together. Shakespeare wrote well, but Dickens wrote Weller. fOonaiderable additions to. the Mount View Lunatic Asylum j Wellirigton, 'are now m progress. Read nothing from which, you cannot learn sornethiug useful. Till robberies are prevalent m Wel» ling ton. ■" . : . * Julias seizer !' exclaimed Sambo, ashe brw '- if uUii3 s Teaching" j for' /^another j chicken. i Only seven of the Oxford's passengers ( now remain m quarantine on Soame's Island; A boy, ideWibirighowj he had a tootb drawn said : ' The doctor collared me, polled like wild horses, and just be'ore my head came off the tooth dropped out.' , ; A man wes fined £2 for throwing flour m Chriatchurch on Saturday at the Salvation Army. ' * I like your : new hat very much,' he said, ' its chic, there's a sort of abandon .' ' There isn't any sort of a band on it,' ahe said, poutingj 'it's a real o.atrich "feathers -•• - - . l^^^^ An advertisement m the Post reads as follows fci-I'BiBY/ May. — Write to me at Tinui. lam very anxious abont you. « D,olly 'W.H.WJ', , r Parisian beautfes now wear their bair combed back, from their foreheads. \ Dressmakers ought io Waks gppd ' rail* road conduotortf; tbey are accustomed to making up long trains. Tom Thumb's widow i 9 one of those little women who are said to be worth their weight m gold. She has £60,000. Mr Charles Gordon/ well known m Wanganui, has gone to open up a line of conveyances between Tauranga and the hot lakes. The Wellington Freetaoueht Association is rapidly gaining ground, and, now holis its meetings at the Theatre Royal. A proposal to send tea thousand Lon» don families to Australia has roused the ire of the Sydney press. They object to the Cockney element as strongly aathey do the Chinese. One journal observes •.. — " Ten thousand families of London — fifty thousand sallow faces, squeaky voices, meagre bodies and barren minds ! We must have run largely into debt with the world's metropolis if we can only discharge it by accepting such a drainage as that. 3 '