News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 2, 30 November 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

A laughing '■ stock-'— The cottar of our great grand.daddies. The- delinquent J< tenant reveis m ower'erital splendour. ; i a , , Judge .... Oautedells, of N,ew .South Wales, is i model of' politehasY and urbanity, m which we can quite fcplieve, air he Sentenced -Prothero, . a wwUdrbs suicide, to <&; inmate's imprisonintq^^^s shortest sentence record. The San Francisco bank vaults contain opibidn valued; iat£|^ojooo. Much of it bejoaga .., to Chinese „ .capitalists. The banks regard the drug as good aeourity for loans. * "..' '"'. ' Wines made from . grapes grown at Auckland, Wanganui, Hokitika, and other ..plajjes m the colony will figure largely m the forthcoming Industrial Exhibition at Christchurch." : ; . n * J{ It is a curious fifcf? says some entomo% logiat, 'that it is the "ferial©; mosquito which torments as?'- A bachelor thinks that is4a not at all curibtu. . . Wife-^'But, my dear, I; shall catch cold coming dowm so late to let you in,',, Husiband-—' Gh^, no, my Jove ; I'll rap jou up well before ypa.qome down 1' Fifteen acres ware~planted with tobacco last year m New-Zealand. . r ; The Salvation Armj contemplates* Maori .war. „, „- „ •; • ■•■■■■ The Patarangi Cheese Faofcorj has started work, and is receiving 300 gallons of milk daily.. ; •'*'-' k An auriferous mountain; 31,000 ft high, is said to have been disobvered m New Guinea, /Mrs Plaindame after looking long: and thoughtfully at a plaster cast of Shakospeare remarked*-- < Poor man 1 How pale htfwas! He couldn't have- been well when it was taken- 1 { ' Why do you carry your pocket-book m your hand V asked a .husband to a young .vjifei f Ob,', was the, quiet reply, . vlt is so, light that lam afraid that it might jump out of my pocket.'. • Somebody is going to dtp,' said a knowing little iellow to. his t pa, V*Vhy, my, son?* ' CauSeDoctor B. lias'ldst gone by.'