IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2410, 16 January 1895, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

Mrs Campbell Praod, tho novelist, is at present visiting Queensland. She is a Queenslander by birth, and tho daughter uf an Australian squatter. Tho Sydney and Melbourne Chambers of Commerce have taken joint action in the direction of protesting against tho new code vocabulary of tho Eastern Extension Cable Company being made compulsory.

Mr Fred Pirani, M.H.E., is to address his constituents at Palmerston North about tho middle of February, and later on in other parts of tho district. In a run from Inglewood to New Plymouth on Saturday night, the railway train finished an excellent second to a cyclist, Mr Forbes. The train was only a few minutes behind, and must have been going at a good pace. Twenty-two of the Gisborne unemployed have boon "despatched to road works at Motu.

The French operating against tho Malagasys have captured a Hova cruiser. The quarterly meeting of the Benevolent Trustees at the Horne takes place on Thursday week. Ex-Constable J. McKenna, of Blenheim, is dead. Soon after joining the Constabulary in Christchurch, in 18G5, he went to tho West Coast, and afterwards to Blenheim. He left the force in May last year, owing to ill-health. The next meeting of the Melrose Borough Council will be held on the 23rd instant, tho regular meeting day falling on Anniversary Day. The orchards of Central Otago have an area of 119 acres, and last year tho growers received for their fruit in Dunedin the sum of .£3911 19s.

The present year promises to be a fruitful one as far as criminal eases at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court are concerned. Tho number dealt with up to yesterday was 104.

Tho Sydney Morning Herald resents Sir G. Russell’s contemptuous reference to Mr Eddy at the recent meeting of shareholders of tho South-Eastern Railway Company. At a reunion of tho teachers in St. John’s Sunday School, Christchurch, Miss Bishop, who is leaving for Wellington, was presented with a copy of tho " Teacher’s Bible ” rind Farrar’s" Life of Christ.” A presentation was also made to Miss Annie Elcrig, who is leaving for Napier. Wo cannot congratulate the Victorian Cabinet on tho manner in which it has received the rejection of its Land Tax Bill by tho Legislative, Conncil. It means a most inglorious surrender to the selfish obstinacy of the Upper Chamber.—Lyttelton Times.