News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 45, 21 January 1884, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

Sir ? iTtlPar^e* ii expected i to 1 return from England m .March or April next. It is said that Donald Biunle is likaly to settle permanently at DuneiJin, r Ie is intended to tato%niW action to suppress the rabbit atJa^ingi 1 ' pestt m Victoria. •■ — ■■■* : Mr^Alfrea/Saundert, r fche well known politician, has published >a practical poul<* try book for England and New* Zealand. As «no»H-pox exists j& Mauritius, th» Melbourne Board of Health has taken steps to .declare Port Louis an infected port. ■■• ■■' ;i :; : ''' ="- v > •'&■-? The weather i» intensely hot m Sydney and many places -m; r^he- interior. At Burke 611 January 7* theHnormometer registered 126 degrees m the shade. The preacher at St. haul's Church Napier, a Sunday or t*o ago, informed hia hearers that St. Paul the Aoostle, 'Lad contracted an unfortmnate" marriage.' . . Newa from many parts of the interior of Victoria testifies to the extensive sererity of the bush fires r which hare eanaed great loss to many farmers, and squatfers. ', Thomas, |i: shV^iuietly inquired, ' What do the papers mean by eayiri^, L thi>y ar* going to run-in doable harness!' Ha smiled as rhetepliedjT'' Well Mary ma told me to be careful m responding to lady friends this Year. J ~"They are not engaged. A fashionable paper says Era wa» Ev-angelical before the Fall, and' then ah* took to Vestments. A new craze among fashionable women is to drink goats' milk for the coQiiJlexion, which hafin'^ the least effect. ;: ■• Lady, (between dances) : ' I remember my first Dall'aa if it were only yesterday T Her partner; '' Dear me, what a wonderful memory yon: must have !' An afflicted husband was returning from the funeral of hia wife, when a friend asked himv i Low > ha.: was.,..' Well,' said h», pathetically, 'I think I feel the better for that little walk.' The Empress of Russia recently ordered ''a winter coat of Bable, trimmed with gold, and enriched with precious stones. The cost: of the whole - was vLB6OOI And yet the Nihilists, say that Russia is overtaxed and poor. It has been officially announced m NeT South Wales t^a.tjESO.OOb will be placed on the estimates' of tbier year for the pur- . pose of technical education m the colony. The Ghristohurch Press says;'—' We ha»e yetto : hear an authoritative report of the Conference j and the sooner Major Atkinson steps on the platform and gives it to us the better.' / " A clergyman had a parishioner, an old woman, who seldom went to church:. Ob» serving her there one Good Friday, frequently lifting up her «yes, opening her moutb, and- wringing her hands, as he preached somewhat . graphically 'upon the intensity of our agony and death, be fancied he had made some impression on-the old woman's mind ; and hoping to improve itJha asked her after thw.eervice what she thought of the sermon, • Sarnibn',- sur !' she replied, ' How could yon go;far totell. sica a ;«tory, ?, Thank JhejLjjni it. w^as long time ago, and don't cohsarn us. so we'll hope ii 'ain't true,' Charles (playfully) : 'IJqw mach really '. did thab hat -cost, - "Jennie V lenoie : M£>yon really want to inspect the biils for my millinery, Charles, there is a way to do it.'- And what else . could Chatles do . . but ' propose pa the : spot?' '■' ? " :;i ' :: v " ;;" ■' ;■";.'"'.■■'" ,: An eminent physician says tbat when a young lady -cannot dane without her nose becoming red, it sdows 1 that- there is^ imperfect circulation of the blood, caused by • tight lacing. 1 " It's the very same with gentlemen. A' red nose is & frequent sign of tightness somewhere. An old Dutch tavern-keeper, who ha«i his third wife, thus expressed his views, of matrimony : 'Veil, you see, de first time I married for love, dat vas goot ; then I married for' beauty, dat vas goot, too; about as- de- first j dis time I married fir tnnney, and dis is" petter as potb/ ie#n\>fcißkl: ; that;pn the 81st ult. there Were 'Sheep infect© l with scab ia •ll J 4odkjs-4ik the WWganui'- subdivision i of the #eflingt6n sheep discrict, aud la iv the NortlrWairarapa subdivision of the ,Ba,ipe district. ■ - The late Professor Holloway once ! told a writer id the Australasian thai he retrenched 1 his advertising -consider* ably one year, arid the result was a fall*ing off of £20,000 m hte^sale* He never repeated thtf <xperimerit; ■ ■ The soil »nd climare ''of Auckland are said to be vi?ry suitable' for the growth of the arrowroot of commerce. Ttie. J Argu.s I 'asserts : tbat a tb© fJ Redm'onds' statements that '"the colonies subscribed .XidOjO towards the Parnell testiuiQniaria exaggerated, and tbat ihe anibunt actuully received tides not exceed tIOOO-" " r!f " / - ' Times change, etc' -^1873 the Age declared the* annexation of New Guinea absurd, ,^he Argus held the opinion that any 'suck project was to be discountenanced, and that New Guinea was not "of the sligaest importance to Aiibtialia. - < Tuberculosis m cattle has Been found to 'be very prevalent m Victoria. New 1 Uiiinea is sapp"£ed ; to have b ten known so far back as 323 years ■b;o j ■- . ; -> ' r - ■-■' '■'■ ■-• : ' It is proposed tb form cadet corps m connection wilh the Victorian State schools. • ' "' dix cevr locomotives are" being constructed m America for the Queensland Gr to nment." Professor Storcg, of Melbourne, intends to visit Glasgow and Home, and to study educational matters. ' airs 0. F. Fraser, the well-known authored? ('Tasma') has pbiained a divurcv from he)r husband. '' > Lady Mitchell, widow of.the Hate Sir Thomas Livingstoae Mitchell, has died tt the age of 'B3 m Sydney ' ; *:'| . Th^ie,is no truth' m Ihe report that the Bishop . cf Melbourne contemplates resigning aad retarning to Knglaud.