IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6129, 16 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

> Barometer rising. The Sumner gala takes place to-morrow. A sensational mining accident is reported from Bendigo. St Patrick's Day gala to-morrow, on the Riccarton racecourse. The Duchess of Kent, the Queen's mother, died March 16, 1861. Race meetings to-morrow at New Brighton, Culverden and Waimate. The team of English footballers for Australia will not sail till April in next year. The Rifle Association's meeting was continued at Oamaru yesterday, when three matches counting for the champion belt were decided. ■ . . The cricket match between Stoddart'B team and Victoria concluded at Melbourne yesterday in a victory for the Englishmen by seven wickets. ■ The Emperor of Austria is urging the European Powers to join in warning the United States of the danger of further interference with Cuban affairs. "The object of advertising 1 is not so much to sell an article that everybody wants, as to make everybody want au article that the advertiser sells." The United States Government is pressing on the construction of big guns and making an inspection of steamers suitable for conversion into auxiliary cruisers. . . The Transvaal Volksraad has, in spite of a special appeal by President Krugier, postponed its sanction to the proposed loan until details of the intended expenditure are supplied. • , Lord Salisbury's medical adviser insists that a; ; holiday is imperative, as his Lordship rallies but slowly from his recent attack of influenza. The Premier will retire from the Foreign Office, and Mr A. J. Balfour will take his place.