IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6140, 29 March 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

Barometer unusually high. Bishop Snter died March 29, 1895. Captain Edwin anticipates colder weather and frost.; The Russian flag hoisted at Port Arthur and Talienwan. Wellington Opera House burned down March 29, 1888. The Selwyn County Council will meet to* morrow morning. Meeting of the Education Board tomorrow morning. Twenty million cartridges issued to the British volunteer forces. All cargo shipped from London for the East is paying war rates. The School Committees Association meets . to- morrow, night at the Normal School. . The Spanish Government will not admit any encroachment on its sovereign rights in Cuba. The American Congress has been aeked to vote half a million dollars for the relief of the distress in Cuba. The attempt to get off the rowing cbampionßhipevents at Dunedin this morning, resulted in another failure. , / ' <■ At a meeting . of volunteer oflicetß $p- . morrow night of fo^ai^A neW Garrißon Band wilFb'e difoussed. -.V« >•■ . :»•>■•':'.. ■-.f ■-; The • 'Cfouift; /;bf3nquirjs^int6. the;-: ''&WW; ' s ';•* disaster fihiJs that' a '• mine was explbded I '< ■ '; Under the vessel, but fixes no, reßpOnßi* bility. Every week ' 9,000,000 oysters are swallowed by the people of London. Half of the shells are broken up and used for asphalt-paving. Thirty-five thousand people visited the Dunedin Industrial Exhibition during the first week, the money taken at the door amounting to .£1295. . The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar is still preserved, lt'iu mounted in a crystal locket, and reposes in a crimson bag with gold tassels. „ ' At the meeting of 'the pity CounoilJaafc^ morgue , oh. thewans of the.riyjttfe^nßaritl^e^^!; Chester Street Ftee 1 ., Brigade ;^«o|u MtiW' hotjoe of inotiqn rescind ,t^ereWl*tlbn -^ wasgiveD. With'-^gar(L>) : i!hd hplding of public meetings in 'Cathedral 'Square, no action was taken/but a deßijirfce expression " of opinion was given by the Couhcil, to the s effect that the views of the oomlintttee ap- J v pointed to report on the -subject had not been faithfully represented by the advertisement published on the subject.