IN A NUTSHELL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2517, 22 May 1895, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

'i'ir; Lmulou 7Ws. alluding to Dr \V. G Grices continued success with tho hat, declares Dm,l it assumes the proportion of a national event.

Mrs Patrick Camphi 11 in said to Jjo anxioun to appear in a dramatisation of Mr Thomas Hardy's well-known riovol “ Toss of the D’UrboviUofi." • -1-

A policeman making a bec-lino for the Waitara railway station the other night at top speed to eateh a train ran intoaharhed wire fence. The fence had slightly the hed of it, hut tiio constable caught the train.

At the March examinations of tho Dresden Consorvatoriam of Music, Miss Maud Fitchetfc, a Dunedin student, obtained her “ Ueife ZeugniHs," or final diploma, and has since proceeded to Paris for tho purpose of continuing hor studies and acquiring a knowledge of Drench methods in music I Ult lMil.

Two of the Christchurch Cathedral choir hoys happened upon a supposed larceny of books on Sunday morning. Thej found half a volume of tho New Zealand Jhmuard and some other books stacked against the Cathedral wall, and covered with grass. While crossing the footbridge under the railway bridge over the Heathcote at Opawa a lady fell into the water, but was gallantly rescued by a bystander, Mr T. Alexander.

Jabez Balfour's son, who went to America after tho revelations concerning the Liberator Companies, has been working then*, it is stated, as a farm labourer, and Ids wife, who occupied a high social position, has taken employment as a domestic servant.

When tho Palmerston Gasworks were first established 00,U00ft of gas were produced each month. The production now per week is IdS.OOUft. The Canterbury .Rowing Club has decided to purchase an association clinker four and best pair-oar from Norton, of A meeting of ratepayers at Sandon carried a resolution in favour of forming a road to connect tho Sundon and FeUding roads.

The Premier hit tho right nail on tho head at Patea tho oilier day when ho said the young Natives of to-day were more expert in their handling of tho billiard cue t han in the uso of the plough and the axe. —Marlon Mercury, Tho estimates and expenditure of tho Buxton Borough for tho present year show that tho balance available for expenditure is JJ3IO 5s 7d. Tho Mayor advises that the balance bo allocated as follows Motoa road, 150; Lady’s Milo, X 75; Avonuo road, XV>o) Wirokino road, <£3s ; Nos. 2 and (5 line cuttings, JHS 5s 7d. Tho most recent society in Auckland is the Old Chums' Association. Anyone who Ims resided in the place for 20 years ranks us an old chum. One man was lined X'l and another *2l at Napier on Monday for throwing rotten eggs and otherwise disturbing a Salvation Army meeting. It is rumoured in London that Mr R. C. Laker, C.M.G., President of tho South Australian Legislative Council, will ‘bo made a K.C.M.G., and Mr 0. Hawker, oxSpeaker and ox-Ministor of tho Crown for the same colony, a Knight Bachelor, Mr Hawker, says an Adelaide message, • is dying. .