IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2427, 5 February 1895, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

The 300th factory was registered at Dunedin yesterday. The New Brighton Pier Company, Christchurch, has resolved to go into liquidation. Sir William Whiteway, who is forming a coalition Ministry in Newfoundland, is leading tho party opposed to Federation with Canada. Mr Young, Minister for Public Works m New South Wales, says his Government considers it justifiable now to construct public works which will pay, as tho cloud of depression is passing away. The first pile of the Mangatainoka bridge was driven, by Mra Vile, wife of tl\e Mayor of Pahiatua, on Wednesday.. ‘ b A woman fell dead in. the RegistrarGeneral's office at Sydney while registering the birth of her child. .

The protest lodged by Derungs against Hall in the three-mile race at tho Caledonian sports at Napier has * been sustained. That against Wyeth was dismissed, and the iattei\takes first money, with Derungs second. The people of Eltham want a road board constituted for the district.

Tho, Bulls bridge over the Raugitikoi River is in need of repair. Mr Duffy, Postmaster-General of Victoria, sails this week for New Zealand. He may be accompanied by Mr Turner, tho Premier.

A meeting of creditors in tho estate of Anthony Rowband, settler, yesterday morning, adjourned until Mr Ashcroft returned. Mr R. H. Marshall, a young man of 21 years, who arrived in the Colony only three months ago from North Cornwall, died at the Hawera Hospital on Saturday from typhoid fever. J. Closiston has won the Amateur Sculling Championship .of South Australia.

Some anxiety caused by the sudden disappearance of Miss King, daughter of tho well-known and popular musician of that name, who was missed from her home, was happily allayed yesterday, v The young lady was found walking about the hills in the vicinity of Evans' Bay. Mr John Curtis, son of Mr Curtis, schoolmaster at tile Wairau Pah, who went to England fop jnodical treatment, returned by the Ruapehu. H©.. has lost his right arm, but his general health is very good. • . . Auckland is agitated about some sports held by the crew of the German warship Bussard on Sunday week in celebration of the Kaiser’s birthday. Tho Mayor was present at the sports, and various citizens are writing to the newspapers giving him and others who were there plenty of opportunity of knowing what they think of them.

A correspondent of a Dunedin paper urges that there should bo a balf-holiday for domestics. One girl who took a situation in a Wellington hotel, adds tho writer, had to work from five o’clock in tho morning till eleven o’clock at night, , Mrs Gray, who throw a knife and killed a girl living with her at- Adamstown, is of a remarkably quiet and kind-hearted nature, and the deed was committed in a fit of anger. The proprietors of Block No. 10 Mine at Broken Hill have decided to erect a concentrating plant capable of treating 20,000 tons of crude sulphide ore per week. A company has been formed at Hawora to build a town hall.

Mr Alfred Goodson, of Hawera, was married to Miss Nellie Kilgour, second daughter of Dr Kilgour, of Parnell, near Auckland, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Parnell, on Thursday. Canon Calder performed tho ceremony, assisted by the Eev L. FitzGerald. Mr Arthur Towsoy presided dt the organ. *