IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 4

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer rising. Walt Whitman, poet, died March 26, 1892.

Tho City Council will meet on Monday night. Supreme Court civil sittings open on Monday.

An anti-Semitic outbreak has occurred at Algiers. '* gglt is reported that Mr James Payn, the novelist, is dying.

H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge born March 26, 1819. The Brunner mining disaster occurred on March 26, 1896.

Anniversary to-morrow of the death of John Bright/1889.

Wauchop memorial service at St John's, 3.30 to-morrow afternoon.

Common jurors not required at the Supreme Court on Monday.

An address to be presented to the Premier to-night, at Lyttelton.

Meeting of Canterbury College Board oi Governors on Monday afternoon.

Sixty thousand elephants are annually slaughtered in Africa for the sake of their

ivory.

An intensely funny story, delightfully told : — " The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown."

si* The .Wootton Band will play sacred selections on the beach at Sumner tomorrow.

The preparation of human hair for the market gives employment to 7000 Parisians.

Everybody who wants to "laugh and grow fat" should go and see Thornton in petticoats.

Great Britain has agreed to guarantee, jointly with Russia and Franco, the interest on the Greek loan.

Several hospital doctors have pronounced pure alcohol the best disinfectant for the hands.

Lord Salisbury's health has sufficiently improved to allow him to leave England for the Continent to-day.

The barking of a dog on the earth can be distinctly heard by a balloonist at an elevation of four miles.

In the sixteen century fencers held the sword in their right hand, and a dagger in the left to ward off blows.

He -. " Almost any man will admit that he has made mistakes." She: "Yes — except When he makes them."

Tbe Spanish flotilla wliich recently sailed for the Canaries for orders has been instructed to proceed to Cuba. .

The American newspapers denounce the fresh provocation to war given by the movement of the Spanish fleet.

igiThere are over one hundred female students now at the University of Berlin, as against thirty-five last year. Russia is sending fifty thousand of her Army Reserve to East Asia, and applying thirty million roubles to strengthening her navy.

China has conceded leases of Port Arthur and Talienwan to Russia, which the London Times describes as equivalent to cession.

Only a quarter of the English portion of the Chinese loan was subscribed by the public. The balance will be provided by the underwriters.

_!* Heavy floods have occurred in the United States, by which thousands of people havo been rendered homeless, and great damage has been occasioned.

Tlie P. and O. steamer China, homeward bound from Australia, is ashore at the entrance to the Red Sea, and is expected to become a total loss.

A message from London states that the " All Red" Cable Committee has adjourned, pending replies being received from the colonies in reference to the Cane route.

In a speech he delivered at Balclutha last night the Premier said he had no intention of committing the country to a borrowing policy. He announced that the surplus for the financial year would be .£400,000, and that ho was fully determined to pass the Old Age Pensions Bill.

A London announcement: — Mr Alfred Moul has arranged to give, on and after Monday, at the Alhambra, . a series of cinematograph views of a test match at cricket between our English team and their, colonial rivals, showing all the members of our eleven batting and bowling, including the popular "Ranji."