IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6115, 23 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising. Fifteen thousand visitors at Dunedin. Battle of Novara fought March 2'- y >, 1849. Durham Street Church anniversary tomorrow. Obituary— Sister Mary Gabriel, Mount: Magdala. . . i , ,I,'he Congregational soiree takes place to-morrow. The horse-fipnd at work again, this time at Haiswell, and again no clue. Mr I . M. Logan died suddenly in tho Dunedin Exhibition bu'lding yesterday. Lord Brassey, the Governor of Victoria, has left Melbourne on a visit to England. Indulgent mothers tell a boy to get im in a tone which encourages him to stay in bed. Faith can remove mountains, but civil engineers prefer to tunnel right through them. Philpott was executed at jWellingtoi. this morning/having made ''full, confession of his guilt. A clever man oan bide the fact that he isn't wise ; but a" wise man always exposes his lack of cleveriiess. The Irish Local Government Bill has passed its s.ecpnd'reading in the House of Comnions without a division. ' A girl's idea of happiness is to dance with one man and leave two or three other men walking the hall floor in jealous rage. It is reported that the Russian demands upon China, including the. right to construct a railway through Manchuria, have been conceded. * "'•■; ' The eighteenth annual exhibition of the Canterbury. Society of Arts was opened in the Att Gallery )&&t night by the Pies.*dent, the Mota B. C. J. Stevens. Three bodies have been recovered from •'the Dudley. mine i a _f e w South Wales, but all hope :of finding any of the entombed miners alive has been abandoned. • News from the Soudan states that.Osman Digna 's brother Was repulsed by friendly natives in his attack upon Adarema, and that the British force now occupies a strong position on the Atbara River. A mob of Alaskan rowdies have seized the White Pasß, on tha route to Klondyke, but the United States garrison at Skagway has been ordered to protect travellers from the depredations of tne band. , The cricket thatch Stoddart's team v. South Australia was continued at Adelaide yesterday. The Englishmen remained at ;the wickets the whole of the day, and when stumps were drawn had compiled 348 runs for five wickets in their second innings. They now have a lead of 283 runs with five, wickets to fall. *_——_—— __———-_-___