IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6130, 17 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

St Patriok',B Day. Sir Henry Bessemer is dead. Champion swimming races to-morrow night, Kent's bath. The San Francisco mail steamer has arrived at Auckland. A force of Russian marines has landed in Corea, and proceeded to the capital. Lord Salisbury is not likely to return to the foreign Office until after Easter. The Johannesburg shooting case proves to have been a highly sensational affair. A sharp drop in the barometer during last night, and a cool, showery nor'wester. The Mayoral "At Home " yesterday, in the City Council Chamber, was a partiou- . larly pleasant function. The annual meetings of the Linwoot! Football Club and Christchuroh Hockey Club will be held to-morrow night. The United States are fortifying Tortugas , Islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, and laying mines for the protection of New York. The Transvaal Government has been authorised to take advantage of any foreign complication to renounce the suzerainty of Great Britain. The public feeling in Madrid is in favour of peace. There have been remarkable demonstrations of friendliness to Great Britain in the United States. 1 The Rifle Association meeting was continued at Oaniaru yesterday, when the Oauiaru Match was decided, and two stages of the Wellington Match were completed. Private M'Gregor, of Oaniaru, is' leading in the competition for the Champion Belt. The 'committee of .the Agricultural and Pastoral Association has deoided to call ft conference of dele&ateß from County Councils and other public bodies, with a view to formulating a scheme foi 1 thej irrigation 1 of the Canterbury plains, and induoing the 1 Government to assist in the work. 1 Elliott and Lee, the atmospheric g&d i promoters, who lately absconded from ■ Sydney, were arrested on the arrival of the L Moana at San Francisco, but, as the British. - Consul and the American authorities agreed • that their offence wjia not one for which they could be extradited they were eubse- < quently released.