IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5734, 30 November 1896, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising. The fateful fourth of the month draws near. Opening chapters of new story in this issue. Australians won the match on the stroke of time. Hearty cheers for the Premier on Saturday night. Amateur Athletic Council meets to-mor-row night. All Government offices to be closed at noon on Friday. Forty thousand famine-stricken natives in South Africa. ' The Engineers in camp at New Brighton during this week. Total totalisator receipts at the Dunedin meeting, ,£15,543. Sensational disappearances reported from New South Wales. New Zealand Shipping Company's annual meeting at noon to-morrow. Council meetings to-night, City and Sydenham and St Albans Boroughs. St Andrew's Day, and ttm odour of the haggis will assert itself to-night. The Government's cheup money scheme ably dealt with by Mr G. W. Kussell in this issue. "Temple of Truth" becomes "The Temple,'"' and is being cleansed from the stains of Worthing' onisni. Wanted — The Liberal and Labour Parties to be true to their principles, true to themselves, this week. > Christinas number of the Canterbury Times published to-day. A splendid literary and pictorial sixpennyworth. During the month of October, 29"58 in of rain fell at Puysegur Point, 12 # 99 at Greymouth, and 1(35 at Christchurch.