IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6127, 14 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Humbert, King of Italy, born March 14, 1844. A sensational murder case reported from Sydney. Japan about to borrow six millions sterling. The Drainage Board meets to-morrow afternoon. Annual meeting of the E Battery at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The Americans are preparing for war with increasing energy. Masonic installation to-morrow night, at Lodge Concord, Papanui. India this season will export wheat to the value of about Meeting of the Christchurch Cycling Club Committee to-morrow night. The Amateur Athletic Association meets at the Occidental to-morrow night. A Spanish torpedo flotilla has been prevented by storm from sailing for Cuba. By the flooding of an Ayrshire colliery three miners were drowned. Sixteen were rescued. Rhodes Convalescent Home annual meeting to-morrow, 3 p.m., in Mr Charles Clarke's auction room. The Corean Government has decided to release the Russian financial agent and military instructors from their engagements. New Brighton trot results :— Selling, North Star; Progressive, Cosmo; Brighton, Wild wood; Electric, Jessie; Dash, Ruby 11. The seventeenth half-yearly meeting of the Working Men's Co-operative Association takes place to-morrow night, in Trinity Hall. American naval officers are displaying great enthusiasm over the suggested alliance between Great Britain and the United States. The French battleship Messina, which has cost .£1,250,000, failed on her trial trip to answer her helm or to attain the contract speed. The British Admiralty has warned shipbuilders not to accept orders from the United States or Spain without first informing the authorities. Totalisator investments at New Brighton on Saturday, £2058. Highest dividends, ,£2l 16s on Jessie in the Electric, and .£l6 10s on Ruby 11. in the Dash. Three-fourths of the indemnity received from Greece is to be paid by Turkey to Russia, in commutation of the indemnity due by the Porte to the CzarThe Hindoos and Mohammedans in Bombay have closed their shops and struck work as a protest against the official measures for the suppression of the plague. The German ironclad Oldenberg has been withdrawn from Crete owing to the alleged intention of Great Britain, Russia and France to instal Prince George of Greece as Governor of the Island. The conference of Premiers ib Melbourne is now closed. It has declined to take joint action in regard to Antarctic exploration, and has resolved that any Federal tariff should give preference to the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom. In reply to a protest by the British Ambassador at Pekin, the Chinese authorities have replied that they were unable to withstand the Russian pressure for a lease of Port Arthur. The British Press is urging that more vigorous measures should be taken to check Russian encroachments. Meetings to-night. — Painters' Union, Otley's Hall, Gloucester Street, 7.30; League of Wheelmen Executive, Occidental Hotel, ' -.8; '.-.Church, .Missionary Society, Y.M.C.A. Roomß, 85; City Council, 7.30 ; Lonargan presentation, Chamber of Commerce, 8 ; Druids', smoke concert, Hibernian Hall, 8; Swimming Association, Clarendon Hotel, 8.