IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5664, 8 September 1896, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Register your voto. Barometer falling slowly. The St Leger will be run to-aiorrow. Charitable Aid Board meets to-niorrcw afternoon. • • ■ Sir Westby Perceval appointed AgentGeneral for Tasmania. The idea of erecting a clock near the : railway, station again mooted. ■■; : '•' St Atigustine Masonic* Lodge meets this evening. A lecture programme., \'. ■.;. t - Palmerston North Industrial Exhibition opened by the Premier last night. Very Rev Father Lenihan appointed Roman Catholic bishop at Auckland. " Cuba's Proposed War Balloon " will be the illustrated article in to-morrow'a Star. A flood experienced at the M'Kenzie township, Cheviot, the river Jed overflowing its banks. More boys playing with dynamite caps — in New South Wales, this time— and with the usual results. The Motett Society to repeat " Israel in Egypt" on Sept. 24, in the Temple of Truth, with shilling, admission tickets. That artificial lake will not be constructed in Hagley Park unless somebody develops energy enough to make a decisive beginning. Members of the Canterbury Women's Institute red hot on the subject of cooperative homes. They haven' c yet tried them —^— and quarrelled. A correspondent has conceived the brilliant idea of buying up all the old horses in Canterbury, and " putting the poor brutes out of existence," by means of a tax on entires. . Dunedin Star says* — "An oil painting by Miss Grace Joel, of this town, has recently been purchased by Mr Elliot, the head of the Christchurch School of ' Art, who has had the work hung in the school for educational purposes in the life class there." ■ Oamaru Mail says : — "We that Mr J. D. Sievwright has -signed an agreement with the promoters of the Liberty League, in Christchurch,. to. -do certain organising and lecturing work on ;behalf of the League in the South Island. The remuneration mentioned is JE3OO a year and expenses." ' ~. . , .