News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 40, 15 January 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

— :oo: — There is talk of lynching the men who evolred this toaat^ ' Our. fire engines, may they belike old maids;— ever ready, but never wanted.' The diamond fever m Canterbury has now subsided. ; ; • - Seven of the Conference delegates were natives of Auatralia, and singularly enough all the seven were lawyers. Maning, the New Zealand wrestler, is m Melbourne, and will .endeavour^to arrange matches for Roberston, the New Zealand champion. . The steamer, lonic took 780 kega of butter from Ly.ttelton. A glut itf the Ohristcbutch market, was thus prevented and prices are moderacely high for the season of the year— 6Jd to 7£d per lb. Mr W. A. Hunt (of Shotover celebrity) with two men is engaged prospecting at Rotokohu, Ohinemuri district, and ex* presses himself as well pleased with the indications of gold obtained, and coin* plains of the small amount of prospecting done m the claims already taken up. A curious incident of Mr Gladstone's recent visit to the Orkneys was that while all the shops save one m. Kirk wall were closed m his honour, he and his ; party liberally patronized that one, the keeper of which was a " stern, unbending Tory." A Mudtfee (N. S. Wales) paper marvels how it is that a certain American town of 8000 inhabitants can do without a drinking saloon or a gaol, while Mudgee, with a population of only 3500, oan hardly get on with 17 pubs, and a gaol and a lockup. It is stated that m the event of war ben t ween France and China, England will forcibly resist any attempt to blockade the ports affecting her trade. ' Rabbitting, according to the Mount Ida Chronicle, is a very lucrative calline. Many rabbitters m Maciototc are making wages equal to from J615 to £30 per months After the concert— Lady ; " Thank you for escorting me home. I'm so sorry 1 Have brought you out of your way.'* Gentleman; " Oh, don't mention it madam ; nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to have seen you further 1' ... , \ . . „ * While a Calefornian woman was select* ing a tombstone 'it fell and killed her little girl. It is not known whether the accident wascaused by carelessness on tne part of the mother, or enterprise on the part of the dealer. A most .disgusting sight was wit« nessed in^Struti-skeit, Ballarat, a h rt t mango, when a man filthily dirty and barely enOOgh rags to cover him, was to be Been near t^e police court. Th.9 man }a question is \>he possessor of a, considerable quantity of property m Ballarat, and from which he receives a good weekly renta 1 , and besides he has close upon £1000 at interest m 'ha bank, surely out of common humanity the man's fami y or friends might do something for him to. save him from the curse of his life — drink. 'I he singie ornament worn by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts at a London party recently was a solitare worth one hundred i\n<i fory thousand do Ins.