News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 38, 12 January 1884, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

y.l Tea has bflen aucoeisfullT srowa lathe United §tatea. . -j/ " '" It is stated thaJL 1,000, 000' cattle have v died from the plague ia Russia during the last'f our years. : '- 1 - •- i^m Fish to the Tatueof' 7 £l J 619,802 were .exported from the United Kingdom ia '1882; Herrings : formed the largest items. The Biitiah .are rapidly extending a network of railways QV.er?lndia. About £6,000,000 wHI-be.spent tbia year m the construction o! hevrroadsi -r A Sydney paper says Lqrd Rosehery is one of the most polished orators ever •heard m Australia. °^' ; : ' ' .^ Mr W. G-. Bassett, the : c6ritratiior : for the Tongahoerailway. section, Hawera, is making. arrangements to commence- work »t ahce*. bu:i --V;;'..: ■■ r>l /■'! t : .•■..,a:. ; :' : . The Conference delegates -were carried, at some parts of the rail Way jdufney from Mtelboarnfc to Sydney; at'thc rrtite of sixty %nlesan a6ur.t : ; - '- k - ' '■ '-- >"\ -> ;■■■ A gooseberry show has been 5 advertised m Christcbnirpb. ■> ' 'I Bftt me down and thpHßM'prdfduntf; Tfiis n^aiim'-wiae I. drew-, ' . •■-•■■•• It's easier' far tVji£e agirl .;j ' : •. Then make 1 ; k girllikeyoai' - VJ ' :ill A ■"""tfaraii. Bfirahacd.tl'night'y' reoeipti^ it .is. Baid|, amount to ,/; .. . r , Dr JBegg'siasU sermon was from the text.Mtf is appointed unto-all men; once to die.' .. v . : *>-:j p The ISst'stone 'of 1 ifi6st-MartoVic J building iti^Pat^hasnov been removed. '"' A *■■'- '_•'■ The- music-master flay.s Tery->ffably : 'Now, you see x childran,~in a march we always have, , four beats to a measure to accomoaodate the step; for I don't know anything tb>t has three feet, exceotner* %aps a milkingistboU* 'Or 'a adds a bright girl m the back row. At Chicago a 'laborer backed himself to mount £ flight of £5; steps 300 times m tea hours. He won the"cont«it with nineteen minutes to spare *„ .\» ■•■;:. .' „ ; ; iMore th^o 20,000 foieijja; women have ;; beon-imppr^.,,in,to,Utahj during, the last twen.ty years,_,and thQ,iupely is still jnob equal to the 'demand.. , ,'X No festivities were allowed at' Baiinprat lakt autumn . among the' lower claask of servants bVibg to John Brown's death* hence their serious lamenting at his -deSthT; V "\ ' ■' • ■ ; _:'■■':.; The fier. Stephen Gladstone draws a larger stipend— more _than £7000— from his rectory of HawVrden 'than his father reQeivessa« Prime Minister. ;-Bab then he can't have as mjuch fun,^s,the G.O. M. Earl Granrille is, email, slim, straight, of the. i most, symmetrical, figure, wiih white skiD, pink oheeks and gray hair, and dresses r nattily m the style o^ a quiet, fa'siiionable youlb/ just' of age. He has reach.edthe scriptural .limit of years. A Southern exchange' announces the Jdeathi of Mr' John Bull, 'Who (ftfas a colonial o£ upwards df 40 years' siding, during 30 years of which time ,hef has resided down , the, Taieri riy,e.r, A Da- ' ceAaed's real name was' John 'O'Neil, but he was, called John Bull on account of his ioamenße strength. Prior to the construe-* tion of roadsi it was a 1 common thine: for Mr Bull to shoulder a 2001 b. bag of flour, and ; with: the. addition «f arlew. other : articlep, such if blprikets, &p., travel from , Dunedin to the: . Cluth,a to the 'wants of s'urveydis in-lliat dSt'rict." Th» deceased died on Christmas day at the age ; of about7o. '•-' '' '■ -'-'■; '; ' ' J *