IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6089, 28 January 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

+. Barometer rising. Heatheote races to-morrow. Pofcrolenm discovered at Chftviot. Capitulation of Paris Jan. 28, 1871. Gladstone's health again improving. Plumpton Trot nominations duo tomorrow. Swimming carnival at Hornby tomorrow. Engineers'" rally "in Cathedral Square to-morrow night. Sports will he held at the College Eiflea' camp to-morrow. The San Francisco mail steamer has arrived at Auckland. Over five thousand people visited New Brighton yesterday. Greece iß< floating a war indemnity loan of five millions sterling. The employes of Glasgow and Sheffield engineering firms have accepted the terms of the employers. Canada has decided upon railway extension to the Elondyke goldfields, upon the land grant system. Southland defeated Ota#o by two wicbsts in the interprovincial cricket match, which ■was concluded yesterday. The intercolonial cricket match, Victoria v. New South Wales, has btien won by the former by three wickets. The London quotation for New Zealand butter is 935, market dull; cheese 42b, market falling. The steamer Behiobistan, with a cargo of arms and ammunition taken on board at St Petersburg, has been captured by a British gunboat, in the Persian Gulf. It •is believed that the arms were intended Sot the revolted tribesmen in Beluchlstan, or for the purpose of forwarding a rising in Persia. Yesterday the Hon W. Hall-Jones inspected the districts ravaged by the Oxford and Birch-Hill bush fires, and gave a donation of <£20 towards the fund for the relief of the sufferera thereby. In the evening he mot a deputation of the Bootmakers' Union at the Christchm-ch Railway Station, and afterwards left for Wellington by the s.s. Penguin.