News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

Tawbiao was diagustod at Adelaide because the crowds stared at him so. The Saturday Review recommends the annexation of New Guinea. Things are very dull at Greymouth, and the prospects for the winter aro gloomy. A man, said to be an ex-J.P. of New South Wales, has been found guilty of bigamy at Melbourne. A number of diabolical attempts to upset trains on the railways m the Melbourne suburbs have been made. A reviewer m the Sydney Mail sayt the philosophy of Henry George " has done more than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A representative of the French Government, who has just visited New Caledonia, has gone home convinced of the dangers of the recidiviste scheme. As a specimen of the extortionate charges made m Hobart, a visitor to Tasmania writes :— " Four of us hired s buggy and pair of ponies for the afternoon, for which we had to pay £1 5a each." Professor Salmond says the ohief fault m the people of Otago is an approximation to the French character. They are a gay and frivolous generation, disliking long sermons and welcoming shams and huaabug-. '- A Pennsylvania grocer inscribed ia large white letters on the fence of a grave-yard : " Use Jone's hotf fed ale if you wish to keep out of here."