IN A NUTSHELL.
« Gladstone recovered. Weather indications unsettled. E Battery's muster parade to-morrow night. Sydenham Band to-night in the Sydenham Park. Cost of the Dongola expedition, =6650,000. Regatta Club's annual meeting tomorrow night. To-morrow's Star — The new Gas Apparatus, illustrated. Uneasiness in London with regard to the Venezuela business. Pigeon flying from Invercargill on Saturday, 3G6 miles 986 yards, in 9hr 6min. A correspondent suggests thsvfc the Avon will come to be known as the Christchurch main drain. A gumdigger at Taipaki hanged himself in a whare. It was stated in evidence that he had lost the money at the Auckland races which was sent by his mother to take him to England. In consequence of the separation of the Public Trust and Advances to Settlers Departments, Mr J. F. C. Campbell succeeds Mr A. K. Duncan as deputy superintendent of the Advances to Settlers Department.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5699, 19 October 1896, Page 2
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146IN A NUTSHELL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5699, 19 October 1896, Page 2
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