IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6122, 8 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Wellington election to-morrow. Eev Henry Ward Beecher died Maroh 8, 1887. • Canterbury Trot acceptances due tonorrow. The Charitable Aid Board meets to-mor-row afternoon. Meeting of the Board of Education tomorrow morning. Special meeting of the Hospital Board at 10.30 to-morrow morning. Serious floods are being experienced in New South Wales and Queensland. The Sheep-dog Trial Club meets to-mor-row afternoon, at the Addington Yards. The Comoro Islands, in the Mozambique Channel, have been devastated by a cyclone. Captain Dreyfus is reported to. have attempted to ppnunit gnieide is bis prison. Mr .lohn Murray wili shortly publish "A flower-Hunter in Queensland," by Mrs Kowflfl. The Cabinet fcag dec Wed that work at tne Springfield etid tf the j&jdland Railway shall be started at ofifiei A fatal poisoning case, the tfeSQlfc ot& blunder on the part of a chemist's assist* ant, is reported from Melbourne. Russia has peremptorily demanded certain railway concessions from China, the invasion of Manchuria being threatened in the event of a refusal. The steamer Fiado, from Sydney to New Caledonia, is long overdue, and it is feared that she has foundered. Her crew and passengers numbered thirty-four. New Servant: "I found this coin upon your desk, sir." Master; "I'm glad you are honest. I put it there purposely to test your honesty." New Servant : " That's what I thought." " Your husband has been ill,-' said the caller.. "Yes," said^the worried-looking little woman; he has been feeling, very badly. I do my beßt to please him j but nothing seems to satisfy him.'* "Is his condition critical ? " " It's worse than critical," she answered with a sigh; "it's abusive." ' The existence of a horse with a large toe attached to each hoof has been announced from Farnborough, Kent. This seems to be a reversion to a primitive type, the toe being a feature of the extinct animals discovered by Marsh, and pronounced by Huxley the progenitors of our horses. The " Scottish Spurgeon," the Rev John M'Neill, whose work in evangelistic missions in Australasia is well-known, Vis holding a series of missions in London which will continue till May. He was invited by Canon M'Cormioh, Lord Kinnaird, Sir Douglas Fox, Dr Clifford and many other influential men.