IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6065, 31 December 1897, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising slowly. M. Gambetta died Dec. 31, 1882. hearty good wishes for the new year. Crackers strictly prohibited in the streets. A great gale raging in the English Channel. Serious bush fires have occurred in Tasmania. A disastrous fire has occurred at Port au Prince, the capital of Hayti. The Lawn Tennis Tournament was concluded at Auckland yesterday. Eight-page, edition of the Star tomorrow, full of first-class reading matter. It is stated that the French have occupied the island of Hainan, off the coast of China. The persons accused with regard to the , Panama Canal frauds have been acquitted. The plague is on the incroase.in Bombay, and a fresh exodus of the inhabitants has taken place. The bodies of the victims of the accident in the Yarra tunnel, Melbourne, have been recovered. The funeral of the late Mr Leslie Thompson took place at Papanui yesterday, and was largely attended. The sudden death at Rangiora, yesterday, of Mrs T. S. Foster, lady principal of the Girls' High School, will be widely and deeply regretted. Intensely hot weather is being experienced in South Australia, and numbers of children and old people have succumbed to its effects. There has been great mortality among domestic animals. In Melbourne yesterday the thermometer registered 100 degrees, and there were several cases of heat apoplexy in the streets.