News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 6, 5 December 1883, Page 2

News in a Nutshell.

-~:oo: — Sound Investment.— A. Telephone. Bound to look well. — A braided coat. •„ . Strapping fellows.— Barbers and school* matter. Will any one explain tbii thuaneti P— We hear of . men sowing wild oats, but who erer heard of a woman sewing any* thing bat tares 1 ' 1 hard a lore-letter,' laid an Irish servant-girl to her mistress. 'ft ill ye rade it to me, plaaet An haw/ the added,.' is some cotton.wull ye can stuff it m yer ears whoila yt rade it.' A statesman's, sajroastie brevity is ad« duced as an example of laconic epistle. H* wrote to a lady whose husband bad di«d suddenly, ' Ah, madame !' and then, on hearing of her wedding soon after, he wrote, ' Oh, madam* !' [t is said that- tbe Lunatic Asylum at Nelson is to be enlarged. A lecture was lately delivered m Ntk son os •♦ Joseph a» a Statennao, 1 The Dunedin people was exceedingly rejoiced the other day when the Te Aaau got up to the Duuedin wharf. . i A cricket mafch was lately plartd vi Gisborne between the Licensed Inter* praters and the Licensed Victualler!. Great hopes are entertained m Taaran{.9 of tbe success of prospecting operations to b« carried on m the ranges bounding the district. ' ■■ ' A one-innings cricket match was played at Hagley Park, Ohriatchurch, a few days ago, between the bakers and batcher*, resulting m a win for the former by fire runs. , , Southland paper has a story that daring a late hailstorm +here, a hailstone, or rather piece of ice, broke through a gal* ranised iron roof. The paragraph il headed ( Scarcely Gbbditabik !' It is said that the sun bat appeared green m India for ' several days lately. Of course the faot is attributed to the passage across Southern India of clouds of sulphurous vapour*from the Jars yo'« canoes. The crops m Canterbury are more backward thm they hare erer been at this season of the year. An order has been receired m Nelson for 100 tons of pie melons. The order came from another "part of the colony, which the Nelson paper* do not- mention* Most like y a jam factory wants tbeie nieJonß,