IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5697, 16 October 1896, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Unsettled weather indications. Supplementary Estimates in this issue. Heavy dust-storm yesterday afternoon. Lincoln College sports take place tolnorrdw. Agreement come to on the Canterbury College Bill. The Chevalier de Kontski's second concert to-night. English Houses of Parliament burned Oct. 16, 1834. New Brighton Sailing Club's season opens to-morrow. Discussion on the liquor question begun in the Synod yesterday. Bank of New Zealand half-yearly meeting adjourned to Oct. 29. Eight-page Star to-morrow, with the usual attractive features. Darfield Saleyards Company paying 10 per cent dividend, as usual General meeting ookf k North Canterbury Educational Institute to-morrow morning. A number of fallow deer are to be liberated in the Moonlight district, Westland. Hagley Park lake to be upwards of five acres in extent, and to be named Victoria Lake. Banking Bill in the hands of the Legislative Council yesterday, in Committee. Fifty thousand tomato plants are being grown this year on the Wood side of the Maitai River, Nelson. A wail from Hokitika: — "A number of tourists are in Greymouth, but few of them seem to come down this way " Additional results at Ohokarace meeting yesterday: — Handicap Trot, Opossum; Mandfaville Handicap, Jewel ; Hack Eace, Jib ; Handicap Trot, Jessie ; Flying Handicap, Jewel ; District Welter Handicap, Black Eagle^ ,