IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6131, 18 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising. A keen frost this morning. Princess Louise born March 18, 1848. E Battery and Mounted Rifles at Bromley to-morrow. Tote investments at New Brighton yesterday, .£3012 10s. The Educational Institute will meet at the Normal School to-morrow. Meeting of the Chnstchurch Football Club to-morrow night, at the Clarendon. ■ Canterbury Jockey Club handicaps, and nominations for Lancaster Park trots, due I to-morrow. » , The Spanish flotilla that was detained at Cadiz by bad weather has sailed for Cubai ' * A Kivileil^ 8l SH iss tfaid" at the NW .Brighton trottifaf meetiiig' yesterday, on Bate, in the Selling Handicap. The Welsh colliers' are urging the mineowners to limit the output of coal as a condition of the renewal of the sliding scale of payments. The Police Commission resumed its sittings at Dunedin yesterday, and Inspector Pardy was examined at some length by Mr T. E. Taylor. In his closing speech at the prorogation of the Volksraad, President Kruger declared that the statement that he had attempted to influence Judge Kotze in the discharge of his judicial duties, was false. Two German Customs officials having crossed the frontier in the Department of Meurthe, they were detained by a number of French workmen, but a party of German soldiers secured their release. The French Government is investigating the incident. The Rifle Association meeting was continued at Oamaru yesterday, and at the conclusion of the day's shooting T. Robinson, of Christchurch, was leading for the Championship, with M'Gregor, of Oamaru, second. It has-been deoiied to hold the next meeting of the Association atWanganui. . " Is it true," asked an acquaintance of a girl who had returned from Boston, *' that there is an air of culture and educational refinement plainly noticeable in the speech of Boston residents ?" "My dear," she replied impressively, "even owls around Boston hoot 'To whom!' instead of 'To whoo !' as in the West." ' The Executive Council considered the cases of the Silverstream and Dunedin murderers yesterday. It was determined in the case of Philpott that the law should be allowed to take its course, and in that of Clements that the decision should be postponed until the condemned man had been examined as to his sanity.