News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 129, 30 April 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

I Mrs .Langtry has purchased a, £35,000 residence at ftew York/ '" The abolition, of. regimental messes is adrocated by English junior officers. An; additional work by X>e Quincey has been discovered, and ' will be published shortly.. ";••:■<_■.> ■■ ; .;.-; >■ A. -A ?.:{\\ Th6 : first edition'^f ihe Qieert's book— a ten 1 thousand is3u« — was sold out m % few hours,, The Scotch Highland rpiilWaj hag re» ceptly loaded trains with show, which was used as a substitute for ice m packing fish. The Austral, which sunk m harbor, is now running as an express boat between NerW- York and Liverpool. The Queen's speech, which •■ wjas telegraphed to Constantinople, wa3 not allowed to be published there. , The house of Mra Eitzher.bert — Georga the- Fourth's ill-used mistress-rat Brighton', has been disposed of to the Young Men's Christian Association. John Harris, the Cornish poet died m January. The son of a miner, m 1864 he wrote the best poem on the Shakespeare tri-centenary. . A draughts match is;how proceeding m MUsg'aw between two- man totally blind, and who havejiever 1 Seen a board. The play is descfttretTas high class. £nd«fifcyiakon3and per* sons are said-to- be out of employment m JPari? v I } . .. ... • > 4 'The Spaniards niVe a religious rorer* ence for the banana, believing it to be the fruit of which- Adam partook. There -were 620>fewer failurea*in lfing« land and VValesia 1883. thWtnßß^, and a decrease m bills-of-sale of 29,915. The New SoutJ^ Wales .Government intend erecting a reformatory for boys. About £8000 will be devoted to the work this year. "'"'"•.' ' : The Marquis of Nbrmacby has itated ,th;it he wilf usyerery means m his power to further the interests of Australia when inEuglaiid. ':■■> : c The prize of 1000,030f, at the Paris Art • Lottery,' .-was won by a one-ifra^c ticket, owned by a 3er^aqt-girl named josephiae d'Aire. The Morraon leaders .are r becoming so bold that they openly defy the United States Government, and urge the necessity of plural marriages. Miss Emily Melville, the well-kno«rn operatic sibger, has failed, with liabilities said to amount to, £3000. Her assets are stated to be £100; T „ Oscar Wildt ihtendi' to follow the example of 'his friend, Mrs Jjahgtry, and go upon the stage so soon as he completes a volume of, poems he has int band, James Boscawan Puffj' late" Deputy Registrar General of New South Wales, has been found guilty, of eiabezzling £1107, and eeatenced to four fears' imprisonment