IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2409, 15 January 1895, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

It lias been finally arrange;! that tho Fpstal .Conference shall meet at Hobart pn Ist February. . • Captain Yonnghusband considers the situation ip the Chitral serious, as the new ruler is weak and without experience. The Queen has cabled tp Khama, phief pf the Bajnangwato, who assisted the British in the Matabple war, assuring him of her support to his request that liquor should he excluded from hjs country. At the inquest on tho victims of the recent railway collision at Chelfprd, the jury found that no pne was criminally liable for the accident, aud added a rider recommending that no shuntin g be carried on during the passfog of an express trafo.

The London Globe says the Australian colonies threaten to flood , the English market with millions of eggs, but it would be mufih preferable to develop the/wine industry. The latter would only have France to compote against, and would not add to the troubles of the British farmer.

Communication on the Pprt Darwin telegraph line was restored yesterday. A young man named George Henderson, chax-ged with theft, and remanded for tho report of the Probation pffi.cer, attempted suicide on Sunday at Dunedin. ■A new public hall at Marten will soon be ready for use. ' A visitor at the Gore Swimming: Baths was in imminent danger' ,of drownfog a few days ago when Mr Hume, a cleric in the Loan and Mercantile office at Gore, dived into the water without removing any of his clothes, and brought him' safely to land. ,

The body ,pf the late Mr A. Peters, coaol. proprietor, has beep interred at Napier. London Chronicle about pifofosfcin “Ho was almost boyond comparison the greatest player of the piano. Others may equal his technique, bnt nobody can ap. proaoh his fire and inspiration.” The Dunedin Jockey Club have resolved to admit press representatives to future enquiries into protests. During their' visit to Auckland the Arawa Natiyos have realised over -gIOO by performing hakas.

Stoddart’s team were disappointed with their batting display on Saturday, and partly attribute it 'to ;tbo fact that, like almost everyone else in the city, they were unable to get any sleep on Friday night owing to the intense heat,