IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2415, 22 January 1895, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

‘ Anniversary Day. . . Lord Brassey may not bo Governor of Victoria after all. There is gome doubt as to whether he will accept the reduced salary of ,£SOOO. per annum. The son of (ho llon'lV. 0. Walker who fell over a cliff a couplo of months "ago and has been at the casual ward,yLyt,t®'t < m>' ever since with a broken thigh, accidentally slipped the other day in the ward and broke the thigh again at the same place. A boy named John Palmer, sen of Archdeacon Palmer, of the Melanesian mission, rescued a girl 1 named 'Nellie Prebble from drowningnear the eastern pierjit NapieC on Saturday. v : 1 Dr Talbot, son of the Mayor of Richmond (Mr G. Talbot), has returned from England after- a successful University .career.

The Dunedin cricketer Bains made 134, not out, on Saturday. Ho went in first, and played,throv*gh. tho innings, 7 •’ M.rs Mowiitj wife of Mr Thos.B: _Mowat, teller of :th‘e Blenheim.bmnfch of the Bank of Now Zealand, is dead. Sho s was well known on'-the’'East'Coast of tho North Island.

, A. boy of thirteen at Nelson, shot through tho leg with a pea rifle, bore the injury in silence rather than get another lad into a row. It was not until some days afterward that the affair was discovered. ■ The Government' 'and the Timaru Borough Corincil are-at loggerheads regarding tho maintenance of the clock on the Tiniai-u Post Olilco. Now the clock has stopped., , i “ The Gondoliers "- to-night, .at tho Operajllouso, to commence at 8.18, . f At one of tho tost matches in Sydney, we read, tho nervous tension was unbearable. “Big strong men shook like leaves;-and were almost afraid to speak,” When ablebodied.mon of the kind who go to . cricket and football matches get afraid to speak, things must bo pretty gloomy. - . The shearers at a station near Waimato, who refused to shear some wet sheep, were told thgy were a lot of ours. They very f roperly demanded ag- apqlogy, and when bis was refused they left the station,- ’ The Christchurch Press reports thei-njar-.-riage of Miss Jeanuio Bowling, eldest daughter of Mr H.- Bowling, a well-known resident of Flaxton; Canterbury, to Mr A. Mudge, of Wellington. , “ difference in work in the colonies and London- for a pnr»» -donw is something marvellous," . says ' Miss Nellie Stewart, ! “ In the first place an opera will ran 300 or 400 nights in London. Here wo have to give two and sometimes four operas a week.. Then in London,-if there is a change in the oast, tho prima donna,, has not to rehearse with the new-principal; except perhaps tho duet music. The under- : study ddes that. - Here in the colonies it is quite different.” I pour Dunedin residents, who a short time back wont to Goolgardie almost penniless, and who" are now located at White Feather, Waiter's Australia; are- said to have made nearly UJIOOO between them. No manufacturer or tradesman’who desires to deal honestly by his work-people need have the Toast fear of the factory inspectors. Those officers are terrors only to evil-doers—and a good job too.—Christchurch Star.

A fire at Wilson Bros.’, grocers/ Great King street, Dunedin, last night, is believed to have damaged’ the stock a good deal. Insurance, wSoOO, New Zealand office.

;. Jri tho Ifiji hurricane sonio.liouaGS were blown 300 or 40j away,

i Police . Constable Gordon has obtained judgment at Napier Against S. North for >6103 damages with costs. fop injuries inflicted through a collision which occurred while a servant of the defendant's was driving.without lights and on the wrong side of the road.