News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

The streets of Melbourne are to be Urn.^ excess^ the^axpaij^ Lady Roaebery.whdia a daughter of fa? PjWTi to* have a nice little fortune of several millioh. frn^ a T me 3 from and robberies from the, person are unpleasantly on the Colonel Disney has'expresse&hiniselfM being very much surprised at the efficiency and physique of the Victorian yoU unteer force. New Caledonia is suffering from drought, The pasturage ha, disappeared; cattle dying , atreams. dried up ; caltiva* tjon of maize impossible.; ... kt .. n . : -- .]<:■■ According to -the Her. J. Berry, the manufacture of decanters m Dunedin has been seriously affected by the success of the Blue Ribbon^Army. An old blackfefiow m South Australia has owned to the murder of a female child, saved from the wreck &f the MaVia on Oooraujg Ke^a>, far.tjjeara ago. 'J Tasmania's gratifying . -progress and prosperity a,re. indioated by, , h,er postal "returns, Correspondence, .inward and outward, has nearly, .trebled within the past ten" yeaVa. 1 ' ' r . . Early m the -present year Tasmania will have direct, steam communication with, England. It ..xa estimated that Ore bu*sidy to be paid by the colony .will be £15,000 or £16,000 a«year. . Six of Messrs, . Stenhouse and Smith's rabbit exterminators were shipped a few daya ago from Marlborough to South Australia, having been ordered by the do* vermnent there. . • . ; . -■•■; ■.<• A ranoheress- of- Washoe Valley : has a novel method of preserving; winter -use. In', summer 'sh> bxeaka th* •eggs •■■ pours" the- : contanfe into bo'ttifs. which are tightly corked, andr seal^dwiea they ars placed W the cellar^ neitk dowa. The contents, of the 'bottles; came ioi&aa fresh as n\rst put m. She puts a dbieii eggs into, each, bottle, -. . The British ' House of Lords * does not ..contain one medical man, and there are 'riot tnore than a.dpz'en medical' Baron eta or JSnighU m the; United Kinrfdaaj. ", • : A legal ' Joke appdar3 m the New land gazette. One JJenrj Burke is nati«* tied that a fortune has been \eit to him, but unless he claims it within ten days from the $3rd January, 1883— about eleven ., -month ago— he will forfeit . fcja | jnr.eresi; ,iii\the bequest. .' That for|#ji m pretty, ce^tnin, ' f "•'■'. " ' •Since the wir'between France sin&Qet* many fcti^ populations -ai' Hie-^fofmT has increased* to toe extent of 612,000, and<of the Issuer to souls. ■ L; : -, ;••;.- < It i§ ; estimated that the inoreaae m th* population of Canada by immigration will this year reach nearly 150)000. L&9t .y.ear the increase 'wrt^ itojOOO. £ , '.iQ "'' ' General''' Booth has' not (his yea* renewed his application for r. music licetiae m reference to the Eagle 'Tavern. Tha licensing magistrates iceordingly struck it off ihe list. ■ ..- '• . - . . _ The Prince of. Montenegro has recently issued/ an edict agains.t. all • luxurious wearing apparel,! . iucludinsj cravata» glove*,; walking-s/ick^, parasols, i^nd um^ brellas* Ihe curious phe.nonxenon <*t a • blue sun' is reported to have Seen seen jo Trinidad on th^ afternoon of September 2j three days before the ooonrrehoe of lihe cyclone lhat swept Mauritius. The export of C^naiiian cheese this year up to the end of July was 400,0U0 boxes, valued at £500,000, an increase of 99,000 boxes over the figure for 'the correspond* ing period ias« ye «r. .' r 'li Vi ell, found, if not' true, 1 is -'the story -that, .when Lord Wolaeley attended St. Patrick's, Cathedral, Dublin, the anthem) w*a Handel'? ' Egypt was glad, when they departed.' The stingiest. man we know is a miserly old bachelor 'who talks through 'iris nose so as to saVe the vv^ar and tear of his voiqe pn his false teeth.. ,./ li-' would be" : qdeit k&ij 'to 'jiay the National debt by icnoosing a tax on beauty. Thetfe isn't a woman living; m the country 'who would -not demand tq/ba assessed.; ; ' . ] ■?.•;:■ .'••••■■(• -■-j • Cjergyman : ', I'm : afraid ypu/rejtinay. Lauchie.' Lauchie ; • Ye^ needna. beieered ? — ver.Jquite reel.* plergyoiau ;' I'm sorry for it- l> Laucliie : 'So auvl, for I got'fou ifav ower soon. T. he ' whusk.ey waa