News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 283, 2 November 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

\ Reports are.current that Sir HercSH Robinson will take* Lord Norui*abyW position on the latter leaving A bullock weighing ' l4oolbi, reiirea at Ohioemuri, has been shown by a batcher at the Thames. . ! >; v . The l,eader is of opiniptt' th»t Neir J Zealand is likely, at no distant date, to b» found m the van of Liberaliim. . : The San Frahcisctf Oity Govsrnmenfc has pasted: a bye-law, ordering all boys to be at their homes by 9 o'clock at night under a penalty of .arrest and fine.. ,-. „\\ (My dear/ »aid a father ; to his dsughter. ' I intend you should, be married ; but not that you should throw yourself away on - any wild, worthless boy. You "musk marry a man of aober and mature age. Whafcdo yon think of a fine, ; intelligent, matured husband of fifty P' The timid, meek, blue-eyeanittle, -daughter lookid m his face, .and, with the sligheajb possibl* touch of interest m her jroice, answered, ( I think two of twenty»five would bt better, papa,' ' . !' ; „' /We lately heard of a housemaid "who, about to leave a family rather unezpecU edly, .and.urgeA..to_give_a_re.a.a_Qn for it» • simply said ; ' leant stay, the youDg Udiei speak such bad grammar,'' ' '■-- ■■'".:!'. A gontlemanat a tea p»riy f oyerhearinje one young lady say to another, ; I have something , ioxi your private ih ear, 1 im<» mediately esplalmed, ' I protest against that, for ther/e is a law against; .privateer* It has been observed during a period of forty-four years that riot oneof the m#n employed ' m a German ultramarine manufactory has suffered from coniumxM tion. This immunity is asonbed to the, constant production or sulphurous aoid by the burning of sulphur is the process of making the ultramarine. The Otago Anglican Syaod opened a| Dunedin on Tuesday; Bishop Neville's adi dress contained little of J general interest, except m reference to the fact that the re* ligioua education classes conducted by the clergy m State schools continued to be well attended.