IN A NUTSHELL.
Barometer falling. The Triple Alliance renewed April 6, 1891. Bough weather predicted by Captain Edwin. City Assessment Court sits to-morrow morning. Board of Education meets to-morrow morning. Bal lance statue- to be unveiled tomorrow. ' . Carl Hertz's noAv illusions are wonderfully good. Acclimatisation Society meets at 4 p.m., to-mnrrow. Record Eeign Committee meets tomoirjw night. Thefamous Koh-i-ncor diamond presented to the Queen, April G, 1850. Several of the Cinematograph pictures had to be repeated last night. Russia is borrowing nine millions sterling for the pui'poses of railway construction. Further severe fighting has taken place ia Crete between the Moslems and the Christians. Sydenham Borough Council has referred the sewage question to a committee, "with power to act." Oxford, after defeating Cambridge in the boat race on Friday, secured the odd event in the Inter-university Sports on Saturday. Tlie Constitutional Committee of the Federal Convention has fixed the honorarium of members of the Federal Parliament at .£4-00 a year. It is rumoured that a serious deadlock has occurred in the i'inance Committee.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5840, 6 April 1897, Page 2
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173IN A NUTSHELL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5840, 6 April 1897, Page 2
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