IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2414, 21 January 1895, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Halt-holiday conference to-day. Tho manager of the Giglake colliery has entirely abandoned hope of rescuing the remainder of the eiltemhed miners, and ho expects that some months Will elapse before their bodies ai‘e reached.

During tilO iatt few days heavy avalanches have fallen iii inaliy parts of Switzerland; THO Idts of life hits been considerable... ~, Mr i: P. Fifth; lieadiiiAotet bi Whllingtqn College, is detaihed jti Christchurch by tlie Secondary ScHdols Conference,. which sits next week; He will return to Wolling-ton-prl ib.o^,stll.iiist. M , ; .... •>.

. The racehorsds Ihgoriha and Abel have been burned to death at Auckland: Tho dates for the swimming cliampionships arc.:—March 2nd, 220yds j March 6, 440ydsi;■ March 7,Tllilfrmile:' Lieutenant A; Rifles; Cbristchurfeb, who hails from Timaru, received an Imperial commission, and joins tho Ist Scottish in India. ■ >, ; .... d .

■- Mt -G.'A» .Synie, a veteran Melbourne journalist, ia dead;- - •. Mr Napier,'who is a member of the Auckland Harbour Board, has told that body that Auckland is behind Wellington as far as every convenience connected with shipping is concerned. Everything in Wellington, ho says, is splendid, and an excellent spirit presides over all in the person of tho engineer, Mr Ferguson, to tho manifest satisfaction of tho shipping world. We have received a Press Association telegram all the way from Invercargill conveying tho gratifying information that the rain will do groat good to the turnip crop. On Thursday afternoon a boy, John A. Hart, son of Mr Martin Hart, of Asburst, while using an axe struck the second and third fingers of his left hand. Ho was taken to the Palmerston Hospital, when Dr Porter found -t necessary to amputate the injured members. It ia said that Judge Kettle will apply for three months’ leave, owing to ill-hoalth, consequent on overwork. Professor Segar, of the Auckland University G.ollogo; ifAS niarfiOd to Miss Elise Schorff, .oldett daughter of Mr F. Soherff, at Auckland on "Wednesday. Amongst the groomsmen was the Rev C. Tisdall, of Wellington. The Makuri settlers want a money order office. . '

A deputation interviewed the Premier at Napier complaining of anomalies in the Shipping and Seamen’s Act. Mr Seddon is to bring the matte f before his colleagues.