News In a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 56, 4 February 1884, Page 2

News In a Nutshell.

— :oo: — A Fish Preserving Company has been started at Russell, Bay of islands. The Hon. Ivo Bligh is coming to Australia to be married. Pleuro<pneumoma baa broken out among a herd of cattle at Camden, N.S.W. An expert has arrived m Tasmania from Europe to ssist m promoting oyster cul« cure. The Kindergarten system is to be tried by the New South Wales Public School Department. In Napier, a few days ago, a duck was seen to catch a sparrow and swallow it whole. The Salvation Army claims to have re»* cned 2500 people m Sandhurst during the last five months. Several ladie3 of abondon were ordered from the grand atand at Tattei sail's raoea, N.B.W. The rainfall for 1883 m South Australia was26|in. This is the highest recorded. since/1853. Of the 950 persons relieved at the Bal* larat Benevolent Asylum last week (say*, the Star) 329 were children. Subscriptions for erecting a memorial to the late Bishop Barker, of Sydney > now amount to £1444. Lord Ripon, at the opening of the Cal* cutta Exhibition, especially complimented) the Australian colonies on their display.. Two Australian ladies, Mias Eva Orrand Miss N itch ell, have been distinguish* ing themselves by their musical abilities at home. Last year, as compared with 1882,. the. Victorian revenue decreased by £85)883, and the New South Wales, revenue by £942,402. The Argua aaya of the late Mr W. J. Smitb, one of its most able contributors* that he never wrote a line unworthy of % gentleman. Several believers m Spiritualism met at a private house at Terrace End last evening. It i» reported there were nume* rous manifestations. Victoria has 78/) aboriginals i New South Wales Jl643; Queensland, 90,583; South Australia, 63,346 j aud Western Australia, 2346. Those who visited the Aoraagi at Wellington were of opinion that she ia th» finest specimen of naval architecture that haß ever yet visited the port. Sydney journals are complaining of the increase of larrikins and asking for armed^ night patrols. At Adelaide the I^HJJk are as bad as they are anywhere, Miss Bella Guerin, tht> first J a B.A. degree m the Melbourne University, is not coining to New Zealand after all, but will be appointed to the staff of professors m the Ballarat School of Mines. A horse fell into a boilinsr spring near to Mr J. 0. Young's house at Ohinemutu last week, and was scalded to death before he could be pulled out. The * Southland Times' is eloquent m its description of a sample of oats grown somewhere south. The sample ' looks like a handful of young sugar danes-' The stalks measure from crown to root G£ft. on an average, and some arc fully seven feet. According to the Diily News,' a woman residing m one of the ' slums' of London signed the pledge 23 times, and then died drunk. During last year, 10,000 immigrants arrived m New Zealand, and since the com* mencernent of this year about 1500 hava. arrived, and large numbers are on their way.