News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 42, 17 January 1884, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

— :oo:— '-/ The ■■ Champion liig'hrweight — The grpcei-. .■:..:' -A • .1. ; . .7 Diamonds are a good deal like hen*. Much depends upon their setting], ~ » He is slightly inebriated, and, blinkf^ at the newspaper, his eyes encountered this.: " Sleeves grow tighter." '"'That's me (hie) 'zac'ly. Just sleeve grow tighter as not," ahd he ordered another 'drink. " Nellie" want to' know if.itrls immo-. d.e3t to speak of night»ca|>p. We certainly cannot see anything immodest,. about it but at the same time it is better to avoid slang and frankly' say " hot toddy.*' , He asked her to meet him by gaslight but she said she.was not a gas-meter. _-y " 1 pride myself on my descent," lisped a snob. •' I don't wonder," was her reply. " You've got pretty low down/ A celebrated wit was asked why he^Hd not marry a young lady to whom he' was much attached. "I know not," he replted, "except the great regard we have for each other." : . ; A woman, lately locking at a printingpress at work, turns to her cotnpinion, " Well, Charley, ah' them's the things as writes the papers; Be's them what they call the editors ?' ? . According to our contemporary, M> Tricklebank' is annoyed at our having stated that the unfortunate person Russell lived at, the rear of his premises. Our informant now states that it was not m the rear, but somewhere m the vicinity of the. brickyard that the Kuas.ells resided* ■ We l hope q6i alpologywill be acceptable. A countryman, not- 'long 1 since, on his first aighb of a locomotive, declared that "He thought it was the deviion wheels I* "Faixjan' yer worae than meself," said an Irish bystander; " for the first time! l see the craythur I tao't it was a sthame" boat huntin' for wather." The Agent-General informs ; the Post's London correspondent that 300 emigrants are to be despatched per Itangitikei to Auckland on the 14th December, and 200 per s.s. British Qaeen to Wellington oa 27th December. The Northumberland jb being rigged out with a most elaborate Belf-coleiuaa apparatus. Her freezing engines are thelargßst ever fitted to a sailiqg ship, and she is expected to bring 33,000 carcases. A Wolverhampton paper says orders for hardware coming direct from New Zealand are larger thin winter than ever they have beeu before. . Figaro, is auspiciousjof so many Z&vr Zea* land, ventures, for . which money aeems wanted just now, and warns investors to make stringent enquiries into them, before parting with a penny. Since Mr Forster resigned the Chief. Secretaryship he has Been a different , man. During the period of hie offico hadressed slovenly, looked wretched, and scarcely ever smiled. Now he frequently I appears m glosay black, and positively.shining aud stops m the lobby ch«tting and joking, At his own special desire the police protection that was co. long afforded him has been withdrawn. The European Mail states that therehas beeu a strong disposition on tbe part of English millers, of late, to favour AustralWn and New wheat. : 'On December the Dunddm police*, took some 41b loaves of bread ; 'from thft •delivery carts of pine dtfJerent 1 batters.! The braad was analysed, by* Professor B.l.ack, and fee r.epor.ted on e,ach case that, tl^ere was nothing injurious found. ;