News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 110, 4 April 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

. General Lord. Wolsely has beefa offered ; and has accepted the Senior Warden ship of the (Wolsely Lodge of JFreetnafions, atManchestery whuih- was cOhsecrated -on ' March 28tb, last year. The lodge teconi duQted on temperance principlea. ■ : , A' Mrs Kiddie,*' o^ka e Ujße[ happen', ' committed for trial for killing' her lius* band by throwing a pair or- scissors- at him, which entered his temple; - i Insanity, consecjuent "on intermarriage,, is" becoming: -prevalen'l Wbnif the old B^itott" families;. : ' > - l - "• >- ; TtieNew^Zea^ti'^Tobacco 1 Compajiy' l have just orde'redUaaditiotiii plug and twist making machine*, to cost £600. : A three-yew-^old T giri ; <of V^averiey, N.Y., who<is4^ialy l deV4lopib^ a last* (or sewing xeceatly - uj>|th.e mon^^; jof'Ker two-mbh'th-dld brother becadse heTr ;! •«"' - : / i ;: u ]/- ia /; i [' i '% j A man 1 was 'fined : Soi in v i'brt OhainierV -V, lbst week for walking on the railway line- ',' The venerable miisidnary, , the late 1 f>ir." J Moffat, ueed;a block of wood for a pilloif; i becftuae, after - it m Af nW, he ;rf could not sleep on a soft pillow after re-* tarmEg t jto civilisation. : .. '.' hll '± JJA ) ' The countr^'is'ia dreadfully inSpover» is'bed that the Williamsou Opera Oom« pany only took an avefajtn of £620 a week dnring H a foar weel^a' seaag^in Auckland*. : Wellington seems to be threatened, with another* water famine, It is notified that the mains east and Bouth of WiUia« street will be charged frpm 5 to apd all other^af trot the city from tf to 11 a. m. The depth^of water \r\ the resorvpir is now 32ft 4in. , l - ' i"* < * 7 ' i Theprincinal witneftainanimportanfcilfmt f j.nal case .at Melbourne got lost m the^ne^f^ tiaw Cburts there," arid the had „[ to be discharged and re.»rf«stedV „",. A boaster m an hotel was telling of the | ojany sections of the, country which he, had tisitod. A fellow^athis elboy^ «Bkeci:/ si , ' Have you; ; aver been: m Alftebraf . * ? Ofty ' : * . jyn^l' said the boaster, !J passed throa§h'->0 top r of a stage .cQflcbabibutil fa, iyear^ '&%„{<.:-. v.M; ; ;:V,!.i ',: •;,- - v-.^ijic. ;■;< y.:<i .'/ : A ffctftCpi recreattoD, , intended; v) tQ a 'pleasure to and elevate the working classes, ie to be erected m the e.a,B.t e^ Q,f ff >; Lbnd6n. Two'huridred and fifty- tnbnaanioV" i'dollars will -be'" expended on ?ne^6if#- 2 _ ,The "piano is the moat moral of m« «truments-!»eing grand, .uwjigh^ «Ad ,. t eqifttfe.'^' ■■ •r:-^< r - • >'.■>*.■' ->■*'- ;- : A; boy named^James.Wbl r sii i , ; l2 1 7ea'V8 { . of -^ ace i .has han^d himself- 'in ' bi^-ftrfher'aC^ kitchenjat Bromwicb; England. ifl»n«»isii:ri troubled. j.n^,hia muida}<n,cjt l beuj« »ble^a<>' : pass ;.tbe|; e^ajninatioix ; flf the .^hpoii H Board.^ ■--•••• 4 „. ■„,!•...