IN A NUTSHELL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5666, 10 September 1896, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL

Change of weather probable. St Leger won by Persimmon, Doncaster Cup run to-morrow. Labour Day in the United States. The Inspector-General of ' Schools in' town. Mr Justice Denniston returned from the West Coast. Musical Union's concert to-night, in the Opera .House. Special political supplement with the Star to-morrow. , . Submarine telephone invented by a Russian scientist. Many white women hanged by the Matabele rebels. 'Illustrated article in to-morrow's S<or, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dr Clayton appointed medical officer to the Charitable Aid Board. \ Wellington Racing Club i£694 to thegood on the year'B meetings. •''■•'•:■ A blaze of brilliant ■■■'colouring 1 at the Olivette fancy dress ball last night. The Commercial Restaurant will be opened for business at 5 p.m. to-day. , The Kaikoura passed some immense icebergs.; one of them a mile and a half long. ■■ v Bromley School Committee growling about the bad state of the roads. And no wonder. . . Special display of spring blooms at J. G. . Daviß's shop in Colombo Street, to-morrow and Saturday. . Greymouth correspondent avers that the man does not live who could defeat Mr Seddon in Westland. . Lohr, the. enterprising impressario, is paying Charles Godfrey £W0 for two dozen appearances in New Zealand, or at the rate of dEIOO per week. '..•■., Donation of JB4B received from Mrs Elizabeth Watson, London, for the Orphanage, Female" Refuge and Old Men'sHome. ' Morning Conservative journal arguesthat Mv Charles Lewis has done well by constituting himself as much of a dumb dogr as possible, and that those who do 1 talk in the House are "political gas-bags." Somo of ' the long - winded Opposition speakers will scarcely like that.

At an inqxiest on a deaf mute in; London, '- it was stated that the wife and sister were : ' both ; blind, deaf, and dumb, the four children of the marriage being also deaf and dumb. ,