IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6137, 25 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

aboli ion of slavery, March 25, -J.-**..,. •T* *.■ barometer fell rapidly during last J •*•_**■ <as Brown will be at the Theatre tonight. China has granted special concessions to Russia. Northerly gales again predicted by Captain Edwin. The Bakers' Union will meet to-morrow night, in the Temperance Hall. Signor Crispi has been censured by the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Mr Stoddart's cricket team left Adelaide en route for England yesterday. Annual meeting of the Rugby Union tomorrow night at the Clarendon. The chances of war between America and Spain said to be increasing. The sufferings Of the people in Cuba are declared to be' of a terrible nature. Gladstone is suffering from weakness of the heart, which makes an operation unsafe. Opening of the Cranmer Square and Canterbury College tennis courts tomorrow. Skirmishing encounters have taken place in the Soudan between the Dervishes and the Egyptians. The speed of our fastest ocean steamers is now greater than that of express trains on Italian railways. About ten tons of pennies are gathered every three weeks from the "penny-in-the-slot" gas-meters of London. Keys of bronze and iron have been found in Greece and Italy dating from at least the 17th century before Christ. The prefix "O" before so many of the names of Irish families is an abbreviation of the word '• ogha," meaning grandchild., The. steamer Mataura, which went ashore at the western entrance to the Straits of Magellan, has broken into halves. The foreign Consuls at Shanghai have demanded the arrest of the Chun Ning rioters and the execution of the murderer of the American missionary. The Dunedin Jockey Club's autumn race meeting was continued at Forbury yesterday, and Mr R. Ray's Starshot was again successful iv the principal handicap. The jubilee celebrations were continued at Dunedin yesterday, the principal events being the races and the bicycle sports during the day, and the citizens' ball in the evening. A barque that left San Francisco with forty passengers for Klondyke has been found floating bottom upwards off Point Bonita, and it is supposed that her passengers and crew are drowned. At a meeting of the Exporters' and Produce Sub-Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held yesterday, a motion was adopted approving of the formation of a New Zealand Frozen Meat Trade Association. The work of recovering the bodies of the victims of the explosion in the Dudley mine is progressing. It turns out that there were fifteen men in the mine at the time of the disaster, and the bodies of five J of these remain to be discovered. J