News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 137, 9 May 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

There are only Dine baronesses m their own right. The Marquis of Aylesford is running a " saloon" m Texas. The two commanders m the Soudan are sons of medical men. Last year the English output of coal totted up 163,000,000 tons. At Soukim the war correspondent of the Cologne Gazette was killed. A life-like portrait of the Queen haa been added to the National Gallery. "Peck's Bad Boy" has been dramatised, and made quite a hit m Philadelphia. A Boston newspaper states that kerosene oil has driven cocoa-out oil wholly out of use m Zanibar. Letters posted m London on March 14 were delivered m Invercargill thirtynine days afterwards. | Edison, who is a printer by trade, [ when a boy, got kicked out of the telegraph office for handling the wires. A national memorial is to be erected to Waghorne, the founder of the overland route, at Chatham, the town where he was born. I There is a curious story going tho rounds to tho effect that O'Donovan, the special correspondent of the Daily News, is alive and with the Mahdi. was wounded at Saukim, where he was a volunteer, having obtained leave of absence, so that he might join m the excitement. Another book threatened. Le Grand has started 20 times, won 12. placed 5, and unplaced 3 times. Not a bad record. Martini-Henri started 7 times, won three races, twice placed, and twice not placed. A Mr and Mrs Dunbar, of Auchinleck, celebrated their golden wedding recently, and, what was even more remarkable, the minister who performed the ceremony was preseut. Dr Shapira, who offered to the British Museum authorities an alleged manuscript of a portion of the Old Testament, which was promptly discovered to be a clumsy forgery suicided m Holland. A very exceptional incident occurred at the New Orleans races recently. Between the two days' racing all the horses advanced a year m age, so that two-year-olds who ran on the first day performed as three-year-olds on tho second. Bishop Barry, of Sydney solemnised a marriage m Victoria the day he landded, and it is said for doing so he can be prosecuted for not being duly registered. The Bishops of Maitlaud (N.S.W.) and Brisbane (Q) were both fined for similar offences, j a