IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2411, 17 January 1895, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Mr W. L. F. Fetch, M. A., Feilding, has been appointed visiting examiner and inspector for the Grey district. Mr Bouoioault has engaged Miss Geraldine Oliffe as leading lady for the Brough and Bouoicault Company, says a London cablegram to the Sydney Herald. Mr H. Morey, manager of the Newcastle branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to Wellington. The jockey Hedge,whose body was found in the Timaru harbour on Sunday afternoon, achieved in 1881 at Timaru the unique feat of riding the first and second horses in the Grand National Steeplechase. The Agent, who was ridden by H. Lunn, fell some distance from, the winning post and stunned his rider, and Hedge, after passing the post, first on Clarence, ..caught The Agent and rode that horse" home second. The Rev A, Chodowski, Jewish Rabbi at Christchurch, who is leaving the Colony, has been presented with a purse qf sovergigns by members of his congregation. ' ■'

Mr B. Lines, who has been 53 year? in the Colony, died at his residence, at Wbqlston, on Monday, at Che age of 90 years. - Mr Fronde nsed to tell how Carlyle's

“ Sartor Eesartus ” was rejected when it was first offered to the publishers, most of whom laughed at it as a display of eccentricity and bombast gone mad.' ’ A cow which bad strayed on to the railway line near the bridge over the Makino was struck by an engine on Tuesday night, hurled over the bridge and killed. The boys in the upper standards of the Lawrence School, thanks to the liberality of Mr C. C -Rawlins, are to bo taught to typewrite. Mr D. E. Theomin, managing direotor of the Dresden Piano Company, Dunedin and Wellington, is a passenger by the s.s. Wakatipu. He has been on a visit-to Sydney. Mr W. H. Judo is back again in England. He is the principal of the Liverpool Organ School and College of Music, of which the Bishop of Liverpool is patron. Since his return from Australia he has been busy composing new. tunes to old familiar, hymns. Mr Matthews has been re-elected chairman of the South Wairarapa Eiver Board.

Mr Lilley, who accompanies the Hon T. Byrnes, is Mr E. M. Lilley. He is a barrister by profession, andis not a Government official.

Lyttelton Times ; —“ We hope to see the Government and the Harbour Boards cooperating with the coal companies with a view to providing New Zealanders with good coal from their ora coalfields. A foreign trade will follow the development qf our own industries as a matter of course." ’

Much indignation has been caused in Johnsonville.and the neighbourhood by the fact that several valuable dogs havebeeh poisoned. . Mr J. P. Hogan, M.P., secretary of the Colonial Party in the British House of Commons, returns to England via Vancouver, by the's.s. Warrimoo. After having Visited Victoria, ho says’that ho com aiders tho colony thoroughly ' sound and stable. •' , ■

- Sir Sillier lias presented the Greytown gifle Club with a handsome silver cup for Competition, A man named Power - was picked up at Temuka in the river-bed with a broken thigh, So had fallen off the bridge during the night. At the railway workshops at Napier on Tuesday evening, Mr Palmer, who is about to be transferred to the Superintendent's office at Wellington, was presented with a beautiful diamond pin.