News In a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 49, 26 January 1884, Page 2

News In a Nutshell.

— :oo: — The reported demise of poop Johnson m incorrect. He is not dead but dy(*jing. The Bishop of Ohriatohuroh is now 80 years of age. ■'* ''■ -'!.'. . ;: The Dilnedhi Eoho it' dead, and tha Presbyterian i makes merry over its Krave. .. Mr Eustlce SthUb, M.P.for San^rland, is making a tour of the Australasian ; . \ ; , , ; •.:!/.};■) The Qhristchurch -Exhibition is des cribed as hij?hl» creditable to the Canterbury province. *' " ' 4lijl; "' Au Otago' pa^er thinks (hi long-con* * tidaed depresiion- will do good serve if ii ii arouses the 'coantry to the fact thjit we, have been borrowing too mupb^aod toa fajst. '.._.. The strange jrlpw m. the eyaning sky, . which tias'.be?n' qbsarrecl so frojjueiitly during the present summer, still continue*, : "' and was quite observable last epeninjt. : ,• 'Mrs M oat her little , daughter's hair^ ! • to, make ac . ban^.' Surveyiajf her ow» ; work. r< sn ; e J said; J 'Bessie, yesterday yotf looked as if you had no-sense ', to-dajr you look as if your mother had n6ne;'> c: , . The AgehtsiGeneral (sa^k ibe Olago Daily Times), fpijm. tie centre of colonial sejeiety m London.' ' How 1 little they re--1 presented Australasia on the Annexation question ith« : .' Sydney Convention hai ahownius. £ ■)>]■■■ . -.;.:■. . ■„-.■ ■■ , According to a recent estimate, about £60,000,000 of the American natioaal debt k . or ieas lhau 20 per ceut. is held, m Europe. ,The treatnatnt ot leprosy is .becoming a har4 problem m India. In the Bombay Presidency 9i83 cases are under treatment* :