News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Mr, Neville and a companion who were out shootiug at_ the bluff, Onehunga, recently discoTered the body of. a . man on the beach j name nhkhown, '•• - Seventeen' domestics, ex s.Si Victory, have been engaged m Dunedin, at from 5* to 15s^-weekly ; five ploughmen, £52 to £60. - Mr Bryce has return -d to Wellington overland, so -(hat trowall the members of the Minis try r are at the ueaiof Govern" ment. . "^ . . Dr James Macgrepor (a favourite Edinburgh divine i and '" a' frequent visitor to Balmoral/ Gastle)" haß shocked ji great many people by saying there ;i| no reason why .young men and youuff, women m Scotland should not— as on thejjontinent — •bajjfce and |wini i together* ;',':,,'" <V For about sixty apooiAtmenta v tag receivers ip: bankruptoy tin, the; various districts <jf Englni/d there, haye 1 been £50,000 Applications. > ■„,.•.. , ; By official returns it is ascertained that the. rain' which commenced shortly after t midnight on Sundayy the 20th, and oon--1 tin ued until about noon 1 on the 22nd, and which reached .6,08 inehes' in about 36 hours;' accompanied with such a Violent southerly g*le|' was the moat destructive of an^ rainstorm ; on refiord during the last 20 years. f ! " : ; lalxpnseauetfde of the '.departute, on leaved of Mr W. R. EY Brown, Registrar* General for the., colony^ ' f ;it'' has been necesßJiry to" appoint a deputy to act for him *cfuffn# hitf'abserice. Mr JS. J. Von Dadelszen has accordingly beenttppointed Deputy Kiegjstarr-Generaalafrom the 14th d Tne (following ad vef tisement is appear* Jng ifl Rations] Colonial .newspapers j—Reward f os-the address of Wjlli^m A,da,nißon, alias De 'Piroj£ Acrobat, son of the late Mr Adnmson, Major of Manchester, Enß* land, or, if deceased, for satisfactory proof of dej^hj ; lAdd^esM Mr Wfitjht, 44, Little Oollins«street, Melbourne. ; " A PofeisWtioat to visit t^aris, with the object of claiming the repayment: of two ; millions * of f canes whijh one of hi» ancesn itorileofeto LouiBXLV. :ii - m.j •; The British are rapidly e^ten^mg m network o^- railways ovec Ind:a.; .About . £o,' OpijQOOwill be spent this year m the construction of new roads." ' l ' -i / , vThej PEenqh<ilSepuWiqin« aije, already . putting /tjhej r b})adfc together ; tb l discover ■ the best way pf_celebrating m 1889, the - centenary, of the, IJrench JReTolution. tAt LiTerppol the ..' march j>f\ improvei nient 1 has made necessary. the destruction of a churchyard, and! "'the' removal of the ITObpdies which it. cpntainSf It is ninetv^eigSt years since the first daily orgin.pf , public opinion was started m New York oftyiand at >«ent there are XVjt, i,n,thV State,, and 1000 m the country ai large, i ** !^^ '-' • ■ Accorxliiigii to a report on the; coral -fishery, published by the Italian it appears,, that upwards of 4sp,men find oocupajtiQn m that industry each year. Stanley, -the expiorer. ajter penat»»tinft far IB to the in^erdr of Africa; haa vetamad to' Stanley"P6ol, and' *rlrl t 'retrao© th* country 'covered -in ; his ; former journey along the east coast* * . . -. . Cheers were |tiv»n In tliß'Britisbrf'irl??* meqt on the 'announcemeht of' a liberal member that he would at the Bext session offer a resolution favouring hbmf rale for Ireland. . .. v ... „\ It i«« a trut^.well understood thronghbqt ihe journalistic world, says tho Brupe. Herald that when , a njun ' ilia paper m ah tiff, there is n'olheed to 'fcnqui^eth^ 'plsiisiet. He ; \* invariably 'offended at spmeihin^ invariably ' ,ihaV Bbmetldng is'tru©,, 'a& i 'invariably thepartjr atftppinghis pap'evis m I lie wrong and o^ly pyoves himself a Vmaft-initided, spiteful man' ' •;