IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6025, 11 November 1897, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

\ Barometer rising. | Heavy snowball at Oxford yesterday. ; No publication of the Mar to-morrow. j There is a financial crisis in Venezuela. j People's day at the Show grounds to- | morrow. j The French force has experienced a rej verse in Western Africa. . ' • ' • A steamer was wrecked in Lake Erie and ! nineteen persons were drowned. i Suitable motto for Mr T. E. Taylor :— j " Evil to him who evil thinks." j The Engineers' Society has accepted the I amended conference proposals of the PresiI dent of the Board of Trade. j The Agent-Creneral reports that the I London quotation for butter is 100s, market firm ; cheese 445, market dull. The cricket match between Stoddart's eleven and a Victorian team was concluded at Melbourne yesterday. Stoddart's teain won by two wickets. The Australasian Methodist Conference was opened at Auckland yesterday, when an address was delivered by the retiring President, the Rev TV. Movley. j Yesterday his Excellency the Governor visited the Rhodes Convalescent Home at twelve, opened the Hyman Marks TVard at 3 p.m., visited the Boys' High School and addressed the scholars at 4.30 p.m., and ! attended the Canterbury Jockey Club ball at night. From a contemporary : — Professor Falb, of Vienna, has arranged for the complete I destruction of the world on Not. 13, 1899, by means of the comet of. 1860. The trouble is to begin at ten minutes past three in the afternoon, so there will probably be only one edition of the evening papers on that date. Almost all the early rape and turnips sown in, the Waimate district, whether sown broadcast or in drills, have been eaten up by the birds and fly, and in most cases the land has had to be re-sown. Grass is fairly plentiful around Waimate, and the crops are looking, exceedingly well. Shearing is commencing, and will be in full swing in a fortnight.