IN A NUTSHE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6467, 22 April 1899, Page 4

IN A NUTSHE

A misty morning. St Georgels Day to-morrow. Conciliation. Board elections on Monday. w^n Pf^oeopher, born April 22, 1724. The Gty Council will meet on. Monday night. * Anniversary to-morrow pi the birth of Shakspere (1564). The English wheat mwkot is firm, with a .hardening tendency. Woolston .Brass Baud to play, at Sumner to-morrow afternoon. A gold-dredging boom seems to be sotting in. on the West Coast. Ernest Toy concerts at the Choral Hall to-iught and Monday night. Meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Gpvernors on Monday afternoon. Fourteen thousand Qnited (states troops are being sent to the Philippines. The Pollards— ever welcome— to open on Monday night at tho Theatre Boyal. The wealth of the late Baroness Hirsch amounted to £24,800,000. That was all. Lecture Bubject at the Druids' Hall tomorrow night, at 6.3o— "The First Appearing of Christ." School Committee elections on Monday night. Householders please make a. point of being present. New Zealand four per cent stock is quoted at £114 ss, three and a half per cent at JBIO9 and three per cent at £96 15s. Mr Justice Denniston, sitting at Wellington yesterday, granted an order cancelling the master's certificate issued to Captain. Jonoa. Anniversary services at the Durham Street Wesleyan Church to-morrow. Preachers—tha Eevs W. Baumber and C. H. Garland. Special anthems. Of the thirty-eight Sultans who have ruled the Ottoman Empires since tho conquest ol Constantinople by the Turks, thirty-four have died violent deaths. Mr W. W. Collins's illustrated lecture at the Theatre Royal to-morrpw night, " Thj Long White Cloud," cannot fail to prova exceedingly interesting. In the recent hurricane on the Queensland coast, nearly four hundred coloured men and thirty Europeans lost their lives, while tha damage is estimated at £50,000. The Pollards have got " a laughing season " for us this time. They are to open on Monday night, according to the alliterative announcement, with the bright, breezy and bustling musical comedy, "The Gay Parisienne." A proposal will be made to the Canadian Parliament that tho Dominion Government should enter into an agreement with Great Britain and Australia for the construction of a Pacific cable, Canada to bear fiveeighths of the cost. Eight Hours Day was, observed in Melbourne in the usual manner. The hands at tho Ballarat Woollen Mill were refused a holiday, though they offered to work all day on Saturday to make up for the loss of time. In consequence two hundred weavers have struck. The Eoyal Academy of Sciences of Amßter* dam has paid a delicate compliment to the English-speaking world by ordering that its transactions shall in future be printed in. English instead of the native. Dutch, in order . that they may be more available to the scientific world at large. The Sultan is a millionaire several times over. His income, public and private, amounts to a million and a half sterling annually. His money ia almost entirely invested outside Turkey, America being tho country now favoured by his Majesty. At one time he had £5,000,000 invested in Great Britain, but the change in the political relations between us and the Ottoman Empire caused the Sultan to make other arrangements.