News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 7, 6 December 1883, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

In the Municipal Council last evening the Engineer explained that the reaaon the Borough horse .had fidt been worked so often recently was because its driver , Hill, was ill, but when , Hill war not ill then the valuable animal performed his duties regulaiiy. ' : Hospital Sunday m Melbourne netted £39?1. • v • -•■ ■■■'■„ The post-office department of the United Kingdom employs 86,000 persons. The poultry produce iB the. United States last year amounted m Value to one hundred and twelve million sterling. ■ It is reoorted that over s million oattle have died of disease m .Busiia during the dagt foot years. : / There, are .about 200,000 counterfeit tovereigns m circulation, in Great Britain, They are so cleverly Made that eyin an expert find* it difficult to diitinguith thorn from the gennine coin. The image and superscription are perfect and even the milling regular. Well informed members of the N«w York tea trade state the yearly impordation« of teas into the United States have been from seventyofive to eighty million pounds, and that of this amount twenty per oent is of a quality unfit to drink and injurious to the health of consumer*. The Wakitipu Mail denies the trath 6t the report about diamonds being found atEarmlow. There are now 250 subscribers on the Dunedin Telephone Exchange; others who have applied cannot at present be accommodated . The Rev. W. G. Li wea write* j—Soni» of the papers refer to the investment of Australian Cipitar m New guinea. Such " facto" are T; imaginative. Ndt a farthing of Australian or any other capital is invested m J>(e*r Guinea. Not a single, trader is resident on any part of; the island now annexed, and no trading vessel is on the coast, for the simple reason that the natives have nothing to trade. , lyhilje a strongljo^iljt .old .house waa being, pulled down ,ia|.he Tillage of Warm. Spring, Buncome county, Worth Carolina, the workmen found a skeleton behind one of the thick walls, Upon it was an old leathern postbag containing several letter* of the year 1827.' In one of them were two IQO dollar notes of a bank which disappeared many years ago. ,