IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3995, 7 October 1897, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

♦ 5 Professor Francis William Newman is dead. ] Disastrous fires are reported from Australia.) ( : Canterbury Jockey Club's weights due to-morrow.- , Landing in New Zealand of Captain • Cook, Oct. 7, 1769. ' Bradlaugh anniversary celebration at * the Lyceum to night. Boys' High School sports at Lancaster Park to-morrow afternoon. Wool continues firm in the London market. Prices are unchanged. The Greek Chamber of Deputies has resolved to trust the Government. 0. S. Parnell died Oct. 7, 1891 ; Edgar A. , Poe, Oct. 7, 1849 ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, ' Oct. 7, 1894. i , Charitable Aid to be discussed at a , public meeting in the Theatre* Royal tomorrow night. By the majority of the employers of cotton spinners in England, a reduction of . ', wages is favoured. The Chrysanthemum Society meets to- ' morrow night, in the Agricultural and ' Pastoral Association's Rooms. . ( ' Senor Sagasta intends to recall General ! Weyler, the Spanish commander in Cuba, ; ! unless he immediately resigns. The Supreme Court at Wellington is ' now occupied in hearing twenty-two claims j for compensation brought by the relatives | of men who were killed in the Brunner [ J mine disaster. The sums claimed amount ' f to £30,000. ! 1 The Ameer, in a proclamation to his own [ subjects, justifies his alliance with Great , Britain on the ground that it secures the * defence of Afghanistan, and he refers to the folly of Shere AH and Yakoub Khan in ! their intrigues with Russia in past years. ; In reply to a deputation of tribesmen 3 who asked for assistance against the British, the Ameer of Afghanistan strongly 1 condemned the raising of causeless rebel- ; lion while the tribes „ were taking allow--3 ances from Great Britain. He said that 5 he would never swerve from the agreement 1 he had made with England.