News in a Nutsshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 252, 26 September 1883, Page 2

News m a N utsshell.

In Ashburton the City Fathers have erected a nice Dlat'form , aud ( pavilion for the' use of the Town Band. A sitting of tbe Native Land 'Court is being held at Kaiapoi, under Chief Judge MacdonalcU i ■....-;■ ,-'.» . The deer on McKellar|s run near Tapanui, Otago, are increasing rapidly. The other morning a herd of not leas than 34 were seen. The number on the estate has now reached 150. A meeting of the Chrwtchureh Milkmen's Protection Society was held a few days ago. One of the rules is as follows:— " Any member found adulrering his milk, shall, upon conviction, be excluded from this society." The disciples of Isaac Walton, m Wellington, are looking forward with joyful anticipation to the opening of the fishing season, which commences on the first of October. Good sport, it may, beanticU pated, is m store for expert _j«fishers, as! the Wain uiorriata stream is stated to beliterally alive with trout. The Otago Daily Times is dissrusted at the conduct of the ..Dunedin members — Messrs, Green, Pish,. and ■ Bracken—during the' session. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surfaoe at the mining town of _ed- "j ruth, Cornwall., the rope attached' to the carbrokej and the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, and instantly killed. „y m yy , ■:,: .■' - •; He continually played on. the horn "Sweet Maiden, Hear My Prayer.?. The maiden lady next door sent word" with her Compliments, that she had heard his prayer, and, she would pay a month's board for him, "m advance," if he'd move to -another part of the town. "•■:. ; : ; - ■ :, .---, ■ X A youna man m a train was making fun of a lady's hat to an .elderly gentleman who was seated, beside him. "Yes,," said the gentleman; " that is my wife, and I told her if she wore that bonnet that some fool would be sure to make fun of it." The young man collapsed, ; " The Wellington Meat Freezing Com* pany send 5185 carcases of. mutton and 20j000 lbs, weight of bnef per the Doric. An elderly man named Harrison, a carpenter, dropped dead m Wellington yesterday, Another printer has got a " fat take!" Mr George Hofer,- printer, was recently wedded to Miss - Rebecca McLean; an heiress to 40,000 dollars^ L