News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 29, 3 January 1884, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

An immigrant girl was taken to the lock-up in Sydney the other day on a hand cart, lhe poor creature-was not diu;nk as migh't hava^been supposed, but was suffering from religious hysteria brought on by excitement connected with Salvation Army services. "Boss, will you tell rae how to make root beer V asked a coloured m A n of a clerk in a Woodward-Avenue drug store a day or two ago. « Why, y<j P) I c&n [ Take a hickory stick, three gallons of water, an old bar, a quart of molasses, a paper of tacks ami a pound of pepper, aud boil, skim and set in a clean place." u ,f"l! agaiD » bo83 » ■«*■! k »n disr.emember. The clerk repeated his directions, and the, customer brought his fi»t down on the counter with the exclamation • " I sees whar I spoiled my whole batch! I left out de tacks!" It is proposed to aeud numbers of cottars and crofters by emigrant vessels to Tasmania. , . . „ Mr Barkrn, barrister, Benalla, has been sent tozaol for vagrancy, in consequence of drink. .. u A handsome white camel' ana* other animals have arrived from Adelaide foe the Zoological gardens. ■ . /. v. y. Bella Gue"nq,- who was admitted to the degree of Bachelor, of Arts, is the first lady who haa attained the "degree in Vic* toria. „ , . r^7 The harvest in South Australia is turn, mg out better than expected-. One-fortu-nate farmer at Red Hill' has cleared 1 up 32 bushels per acre. - : . In future, ~ho orders for. Government stores in South Australia ' win be sent to the Agent-General if they can be manufactured or purchased in the colony. Itia stated that th* prdmotws ;of tht totahsator sweeps are shaking the Victorian duat off their feet, and migrating en masse to New South Wales. The Railway Department, Sydney, haa authorised trial surveys of about" 2200 miles of railway. They have evidently caught the railway fever to some purpose in New South Wales. The^New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable, announcing the arrival 'at St; Vincent: of. the m, Doric en route fbr'Aucktend.' ' The drought in the.MacquarieVdistrict, JN La. VV.y his" caused a terrible destruction of sheep. 'One squatter caTted 10,000 out of the- shed?, and had them' turned, besides losing thousands of others he coul never get in. ' " "■' :>i In 1832; 161 meu H. M. B. ; tfelspn,, ;oniy ; ' ."'£. Comparatively .sma^l number having been letu^ned. It is.said'tbatiit will b"e impossible to maintaia a vessel of her clasß ontb'e station 'unlejstiie men will stand by : her. Ther^is alWajsjinteo^iei disincli. nation M'i^'|(apt;;Qf'^lonis,U : f|jo up ,a deserfer, 7 'ap4 ; -the enc^ur^ement to fiettle ia.tUe cp/.aniesaa yerjr gceit. > No' young man/ Kt^vbstit hurt yoa a particle to sow your ''wftdfoa^. Go ahea:dand sow all jiqu /wis!?.^ , But it's the gathering of' the ; CBop| that will make you howl. And you have to gather it too; Ifeyou Jdon'i Xv gathers you in, and one is a great deal worsa than the other.' ''--'' '■ - ■' > : School' Gommitteeman (examining a scholar)^ iWjiere U the 1 tarih ] Pdl 9 ? '» " I don't' knoWj sir: >ilc Don't know ?" " Areyou notastamed that you don't know, wheie the- tf&rtu i^ole is ?" 4 « Why, sir, if Sir John Franklin and Dr Kane, and Captain. DeLonj? couldn't fi*)d it, how shonld I know where -ic is. Mr J.. 0.-Ocawfotd^/ormerly Resident Magistrate f of vyiellington,- has « again arrived therefrom Ehglanl via" Sydney. l?he' Rev. : Bant, ChuTch of England Missionary, J go s out by an eanyP. and O, st*amer to Aacklantl He is to join Bishop Selwyn; ' ?