News ina a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 83, 6 March 1884, Page 2

News ma a Nutshell.

-r-'-op: — A, New Zealand Plate Glass Insurance Company lias been successfully floated m Dunedin for the purpose of doing buainess throughout the colony. The OabitaV IB lobe £10,000. ■:; r ". ''-; i-::-rhV .ThW ' output f roni^ the : Wosport ■ Goal Company's mine at Waimangaroai i for the month of February was Bilßtons6 CW*. '■•■■' ■ :'■■ ■ ■-. .if ..... .. ; -v: : ,;-i „r • J. M. Moor house, :70 years of, age, seven years a resident m Southbridge, was killed] on Tuesday, by falling, off, • load of straw, near Kaiapoi. .* : A Wellinßton paper reports trade fairly brisk. Engagements* ar« met rery well. Few , bills or,, cheques are dishonored. Tradespeople will buy exactly what they ' want and no more, and all the arts of the most skilful salesmen are wasted on them. The N>w Zealand Shipping Compaojr are -cutting down the salaries of officer* ' and men to the lowest limit, and m everj way trying ta.lesien the; expenses of tho bi^ steamers* The Man twatu Railway Compaay.*aTe let' contracts for no less than fifty-three miles of road: A. Wslliri^toa paper ob« •selves "that the expenditure is certainly % present boon to Wellington, , There are more iban 1000 immigrants nonnuajed. from and pn ; tbft t waj. to land, remarks the Star, at the present time. The great, majority of these haw been nominated from the country dls* tricts. '^.■ : ';/- '"."'.. • The Gear Meat Co.'c wharf at Welling^ ton is built ,of white pine saplings with, the baric 6nV This seems rather falsa economy. i - The reverses of fortune are wonderfuK The Wife of s Chicat^a millionaire wha failed a year aco, is now a clerk m a - New York house, at which* m limes of prosperity she > purchased an aggregate ol £8000 worth of curios and antitjuttief. Sir William Fox unveiled thfl founder tion stone of the Christcharch "Y6un£ Men's Christian Association £cW :< build* ing on Tuesday, iirthe pre^en'c^'o^tja/gi assemblage; ;- , ''^