IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5777, 22 January 1897, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Earthquake iv Epirus. Fatal coalmining riots in Hungary. • More native revolts in South Africa. Another of Butler's victims discovered. Colonolllume going to England on leave of absence. x Rumoured discovery of a specific for the bubonic plague. Farewell to Bishop Julius in Art Gallery, Feb. 10. Hamburg dock striko continues. Funds urgently needed. Vitriol throwing in Auckland. Love and jealousy the cause. Chamberlain lias moved for new inquiry into the Jameson raid. Bell, the alleged dynamiter, discharged. The prosecution broke down. Diver drowned at Sydney while testing newly-invented diving dress. Ifc is reported that the Czs? r and Czarina will visit China, Japan and Corea. Poisoning case at Hawera. Oatmeal mixed with arsenic left lying around. Lord Brassey will speak on Imperial j and Colonial defence while in Christchurch. • j Premier leaves "Wellington for Hobart via the Bluff to-day. Will be absent a month. House of Commons negatived amendment to Address-in-Reply, in favour of releasing dynamiters. Waingaroa bridge, Carterton, saved from burning by the pluck and presence of mind of a woman, Mrs Cameron. G. J. Smith, M.H.R., has telegraphed to Government respecting the narrow escape from a serious accident at the Addington railway crossing. Pioneor Bicycle Club is .sending Jones, Shorland and H. Thompson to compete at Wellington champion cycling meeting. Good luck to them. Michael Ryan was killed this morning at River Road, Opawa, by Horatio John Parkes, who cut him down with an axe. Parkes gave himself up to the police. Spanish Premier threatens to resign unless "Butcher" Weyler crushes the Cuban rebellion before the rainy season sets in. He will probably have the opportunity of carrying out his threat. Two men fined at Ashburton for dynamiting trout. Very unsportsmanlike, no doubt, to fish with dynamite, though possibly the fish would prefer it to the lingering torment caused by the " sportsmanlike " hook and line.