IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6132, 19 March 1898, Page 4

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising slowly. David Livingstone born March 19, 1813. (Died may 4, 1873.) The Kiflo Championship will be decided on Monday morning. Anniversary to-morrow of Sir Isaac Newton's death, 1727. Communist insurrection in Paris broke out on March 19, 1871. A footballers' insurance company projected in Chris tch arch. The executive of the League of Wheelmen will meet on Monday night. There is good competition at the London wool sales, and pi-ices remain firm. There will be a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council on Monday night. The French officer who captured Nikki, in West Africa, has been promoted for his services. The Agent-General for Victoria is urging Mr Chamberlain to allow the colonial mints to coin silver. Consols are quoted at lllf, New South Wales 3 per cent stock at 98£, and New Zealand 3 per cent stock at 994". Sir Lambert Dobson is dead. He was born in 1833, and succeeded Sir Francis Smith as Chief Justice of Tasmania in ISSS. "Doe 3my whistling disturb you?" " Oh, not in the least. I'm used to hearing men whistle. I'm a collector for a millinery house." Sixty thousand Mussulman residents in Crete have informed the Sultan that they will refuse to accept Prince George of Greece as Governor. The Paris Temps states that the French naval mobilisation is merely an experiment to ascertain the time required to provision the northern squadron. The American mission at Chim Hing has been attacked by the Chinese mob, and one missionary has been murdered and several others have been maltreated. The benefit given to Miss Nellie Farren, at Drury Lane Theatre, realised sufficient to provide the well-known Gaiety actress with an income of .£2(30 a year. The tribesmen on the north-west frontier of India are offering General Lockhart hostages to secure payment of the fines imposed upon them for rebellion. The committee appointed by the Italian Chamber of Deputies has recommended that Signor Macola should be prosecuted for killing Signor Cavalotti in the recent duel. The Executive has refused to receive any further communication from MiJellicoe with regard to the Silverstream murderer, and the law will, therefore, be allowed to take its course. A member of the Transvaal Volksraad has testified to the accuracy of the statement made by Judge Kotae with regard to President Kruger's attempt to override the judiciary. The report of the Foreign Committee of the United Stales Senate asserts that British agents and Princess Kaiulani are fomenting the destruction of the Hawaiian Republic. Mr John Dillon, speaking at the Irish Nationalists' banquet in London on St Patrick's Day, said that tlio peace now prevailing in Ireland was only the prelude to a thunderstorm. The representatives of the various Imperial Departments on tbo Cabie Committee support the oiler of the Eastern Extension Company to construct a line to Australia from Cnpe Colony. Little Dnisilla: " Does your mamma take you in her lap evenings and tell you fairy stories ? Mine does." Little Dorothy (gloomily): "No, my mother hasn't got any lap. She wears bloomers." Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador at Washington, is taking advantage of the good feeling in the United States towards Great Britain to press the arbitration scheme upon the attention of the American authorities. She: "You see, we were discussing whether two could live as cheaply as one, and— well, we both had the same chair— and papa came in." He: "And did you decide the question?" "No; but we agreed, after papa left, that two could feel as cheap as one, anyway." At the annual banquet of the Associated Chambers of Commerce after Lord Rosebery had complimented Lord Salisbury on S* he' Sri of Trade said that all the existing disputes with other Powers would m-obablv be amicably settled.

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