News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 273, 22 October 1883, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

' , • There are 3179 lunatics in.the asvlam of Viotoria. , "A 77 77 In Victoria, 50,000 people are members of friendly' societies. " *• : '~- -'---• ■■>■■* The population of Melbourne. ls set ,down at 64,559 j of the city andVuburba , 291,464; .; v: ; • ■■■■■•- .-■-••? ■.-:•* v7s . .The cost of meat m Italy is so high at to make it a decided luxury for the middle classes, and its taste mo»t,be ! un* known to the poorer people. 'The Duke of Westminster hai given £1000 and a site of six acres of i land towards the erection of ,a .church at ,oaer» f allwch Northop, near Chester.'' """■'"" .The Free Church of Scotland is educate ing lady missionaries m :medteihe ywitb a view ,t0 . . . more effective work among ; the women m tha zenanas of India. ; - Louise Michel was recently . triinsferred from the Prison St. Lazare td Clermont, where she will pass the six years' seclusion to which she has been condemned, i -;Thereissbme talk of employing electric wire netting for the destruction of rabbits m the Australian colonies; . ;A West Australian paper says ;— VSilliam Sloan has been fined ss, and costs, for making faces at a woman m the jstreet.' ■ * "-ii- A The increase of banking advances'during 1882 m Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand, amount to ten millions sterling. The Western Australian Timber Com* pany have signed a contract for tbe supply ot 50,000, . jarrah sleepers for the New Zsaiand Government. • Steps aye being, taken with a view of haying the Albert Graving Dock at Melbourne enlarged *soasto be capable of taking m the largest vessel afloat, fi The Sultan has presented Hobart Pssha and Madame Hobart with the sum of 760 Turkish liras (about £680 sterlu.g) as a special mark of his favour.: „.., The Government of Eastern Siberia has asked, ior eight additional, regiments of Russian - troops, because of the shoes riority of, the Chinese' 'frontier guard. A statue' of the late Earl of Beacons* . field has been 'placed m the Conservative Club;. The statue is erected by subscript tionof the members, and is the work of Count Gleiohen. Mrs Garfield has given the horse that General Garfield, rode at* the battle of Ohickamanga to O. C. Moore, of Kent, who assisted the General to mount it tbe first time he rode it. . A ; terrible, tragedy is reported fronv Pueblo, N.M. A gambler cut a woinan'a throat, andiaa she jumbed oat pf a seoond story to escape from him he cutr his own throat. •' ■-■!•■•"■ A little boy being as if he wad dux of bis class, replied, ' I am where the head of the class used to be, but the ' teacherhas turned the class round. ' A* l'_ "'■ '"' ' ' :r ''' ■ :: '