News m a Nutshell.
Mrs Denton is about to write a bib-. o'raphy of her late husband, Professor Denton. The keas are doing immense damage to the sheep m the Mackenzie country, Canterbury. A West Coast paper states that a woman lately found a quantity of fins gold m the stomach of a flounder. Mr Speight, Chairman of the Victorian Railway Commission, is a member of the Me thQdist denomination, ". rThe London Printer's Register, noting the return of the Argus expedition from New Guinea; places Cooktowa on the i west coast of Africa. A proposal has been made to place * permanent 1 tablet at the spot from which: Burke and Willis started on their memorable expedition 1860. Mr E. Morrison, who went on an exploriug tour m New Guinea, is proceeding to Scotland for the purpose of study-, fng for the medrcal profession. $ An American paper has discovered-^ remarkable Australian colonist, Hii name is Baron Rupertawood, and his wealth something like £20,000,000.. , - Honolulu public schools are to be searched for pupils showing ■indications of leprosy, so great is the dread of the disease on the part of .the white resident* of the Kingdom. . .->.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 147, 20 May 1884, Page 2
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193News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 147, 20 May 1884, Page 2
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