News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 128, 29 April 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Bricks have been found iii' Egypt made without straw. " — Local-option meetings are betng .held all over South Australia. About 300 students on an average at* tend the Melbourne University lectures. Th> Cincinnati Hebrews are raising £15,000 for a home, for the aged and m« digent. * '^-— """ St Petersburg and othe.r citist are now supplied c with frozen* %s&at from the interior.*" — ""jSir £.rthur r -Bly th wants.^Englishmen to learfr'a little more abrint' Australian geography. Lord Carnarvon says the colonies are bound to England by adamant -phaina of love and affection. / ■;* l.'.i. The barque Reconnaissance fakes from .Sydney two bne&ies^to Samoa, for the kin* of that island ! " ' ' 'Nineteen, piers ; of, the nsWj bridge over the Tay are / nearly, finished,' "and work goes oh night and'ifay. The English Salvation army reports'an increase of 25 per cent m membership m the laßt twelve mbn'tbS; ,An intercolonial exhibition of wine frtiib, : and other ptbduotß dfti* 1 Coloniea has been opened in/Melbourne. A French-industrial society has advocated the suppression, of all ejijcplar saws, on the ground that they are rauteful and dangerous to life. M. de Lesseps hns been invited to undertake the completion of the canal which is to make St Petersburg a seaport and independent of Cronstadt. The reaction has set m stroi/gly m England again3t "over-education, and the evils J of competitive ' examination are forcibly dwelt upon by doctors. Returns show Dublin jstillUo be what L idy Morgan described it m her day — tha greatest ' tay-drinkingest ' city m the two hemispheres. 1 The Sunday»s6hool army of the world now embrace* 13,400j000 scholars and 1,60^,090 officers arid teachers, or a grand total of flbout; 15,000,0^.^^ Killing. alligators for their skins and teeth employs^ a J«fge force of man m Florida, : which 'has. engage^ to furnish 500 f opo skins to a Ffeiich tannery m a given time. . ' -■'- | | The Prince of Wales, ipjj'Hrin.ff a t the Grand Lodjre of Mark Masons, said so long as Freemasonry remained an order and an institution of charity ,gnd usefulness, it would flourish as long, as the wot Id existed. r . ' ihe Blue-ribbon mo,V9?n?n^ continues to make rapid progress ""in" 1 victoria. At least 20,000 blue ribbons have bee u issued since Messrs Booth arid Grlovercommenced their crusade. A Fierce war is being: waged against the sparrows iv South Australw. Since ?{he adoption of ths practice of giving a reward for .aparrowt' ; heads and eggs, no fewer than 88 780 he ids and 493,933 eggs tiiive been paid for by the Qovernmeat.