IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6282, 13 September 1898, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

-I Barometer steady. Quebec captured Sept. 13, 1759. Death of General Wolfe, Sept. 13, 1759;. Sir H. Kitchener intends to proceed, to Fashoda. The Board of Education will meet tormorrow, at 11 a.m. The Charitable Aid Board will meet, tomorrow afternoon. Meeting of the Horticultural Society tomorrow night at eight o'clock. The annual meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Rowing Club takes place to-morrow night. Russia is making strenuous efforts to secure, the reinstatement of Li Hung Chang. Butler benefit concert in the Oddfellows' Hall to-night. Programme in this issue. Two hundred Spanish troops in the Caroline Islands have been annihilated by tribesmen. A loss of half a million has been caused by a great fire at New Westminster, in British Columbia. An English syndicate has secured the contract for "the construction of the ShanghaiNankin railway. At the meeting of the City Council last night, the morgue question was again under discussion, but further consideration was postponed till the next meeting. Certain recommendations with regard to the Cemetery Reserve were adopted. Intense grief at tho murder of the Empress ia manifested throughout Austria- and Hrmgary. men and women weeping in the streets. The display of great sympathy with the Emperor will probably facilitate the settlement of the Ausgleich difficulty with Hungary-