News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 173, 19 June 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

A match of £40,000 is very npughty, but it is nice. r •.-..» J1 It is almost acertainty thatEliasLaycock will have another race.against. against Hanlon, on the Parramatta. llie New Zealand Tobacco-grq\yingand Mamifac'turing'Compariy haye 1 seat an agent to:Tauranga with seed. Foxes are gettingalarmingly numeroas m the vicinity of Teesdale, Geelong, and are destroying numbers of young lambs. Mr. R. 11. Rhodes, who died lately at .Chi'istchurch, sat for several years iri tha House of Representatives as member for Akaroa.. > CThe Rev. Joseph. Berr)- of Duriedin, has received a few weeks': leave of absence from duty, owing to indisposition He is now known as " The Metho&ist Bishop. of Otago." ■ -.c Some of the publicans are adopting a conciliatory policy towards * -the Licensing Commissioners,. namely, inviting them to drop m. whenever they feel disposed. Among the passengers by the ''bond is theltev. Mr. Wilspri, Baptist ministerelect, of Cambridge (Waikatn), and Mr. Olney, si-nior deacon of the Rev. C. H." Spurgeon'B Metropolitan Tabernacle, who is making a tour of the colonies, The Rev. K^ddqll/of Duuedin, m the course of a recent sermon, said he was 'inclined to believe the statement of Henry Georgbj that al| our miseries and trouble have arisen from ignoring the laws uud.er th,e J^ogaic dispeußation.