IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6166, 21 April 1899, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

m Barometer rising slowly. Wellington lit with gas, April 21, 1871. Toy Concert Company at the Choral Hall to-night. First drinking fountain erected in London, ! April 21, 1859. Peace treaty between Japan and China concluded, April '21, 1895. j The steamship Australia is a total wreck, i and is fast breaking up. The sum of £1762 invested at the Ashburton races yesterday; no big dividends. New Plymouth harbour authorities " cock-a--hoop." Three- steamers berthed there this morning. The Duke of Devonshire, in the course of a speech, said that a crisis in China was probably inevitable, and not very far distant. The English 'railway companies and the owners of Atlantic steamship lines are investigating the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy. i President M'Kinley does not intend to call for more volunteers for service in the Philippines, but will send reinforcements from the regular army. Negro rioting in; Guadeloupe, West Indies, has resulted in the burning of five hundred houses and the loss of thirty-one liveg in the conflagration. Much doubt exists in London as to the working of the new stamp duties. Bankers and brokers, however, consider that they will no*, affect the colonies very much. The Hon W. P. Reeves's fascinating book on New Zealand, "The Long White Cloud," is to form the subject of a profusely illustrated lecture by Mr W. W. Collins on Sunday night, at the Theatre Royal.