IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2412, 18 January 1895, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

A number of natives belonging to British Now Guinea have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging up to ten years for murdering 16 natives who took refuge near Fly River during a gale. Tho Premier of Now South Wales says the oiHco of the Agent-General of that colony mtlnt bo made more useful to the people. Something like the New Zealand office, he probably means. Tho Earl of Kintoro has left for London. It is rumoured that Sir Henry Blake, Governor of Jamaica, is to succeed him as Governor of SouthuAustralia. The police want an owner for 40 feet of garden hose. During tho past twelve months the Lancaster Park Company have spent .£BOO upon improvements, the most expensive of which is the new batfl, to be opened on Saturday. Tho bath is 60yds long by 12yds wide. Several Lyttelton people are coming up for tho Wellington regatta. Mr Northcroft, S.M. at Auckland, says that in future a club will have to show that it has money sufficient to pay its debts and stakes before ho will recommend a permit for the totalisator. He spoke thus in giving judgment against an official of a trotting club for certain printing work. There were only three deaths from typhoid in the four principal cities of tho Colony during December. The City Council last night decided that the Free Library should not be closed on Anniversary Day, The members of the Hunterville Small Farm Association are protesting against the valuation of their land, as excessive. The Wellington City Council have decided to ask the late Mayor (Mr A. de B. Brandon) for his portrait, to be hung in the Council Chamber along with those of former Mayors. The Bishop of Salisbury was welcomed at a conversazione at Dunedin last night. The opinion of the Wellington City Solicitor is that the delegates at the halfholiday conference must have a free hand. An infant named Gorlett was found dead in bed at Napier. ; At* the Royal Arch Chapter meeting at Dunedin, Bro. Porritt (Wairarapa) was elected Third Principal, and Bro. Williams (Wellington), Scribe j . Bro. Elliott (Wellington), Recorder; Bro. Smith (Palmerston North), Superintendent of Works ; and Bro. Provis (Napier), Standardbearer. Tho City Council have granted an auctioneer's license to Mr A. J. Reid.