IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6489, 18 May 1899, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

■ —: Barometer falling. J udge iinckiey died May 18, 1896. Nicholas 11., Czar of Russia, born May IS, 1868. Meeting of the Floral Fete Trustees to-, morrow evening. C A. S. C. smoke concert at the Clarendon to-morrow night. Two thousand men have been discharged from the Woolwich Arsenal. Captain Edwin anticipates a heavy, northerly gale, heavy rain, and heavy sea. ■ Another town has been captured by the American forces in the Philippines. The British Government has decided to convert the Imperial Institute into national property. Great preparations- are being made for the reception of Major Marchand on his return to France. The publication of the Sunday edition of the London " Daily Mail " has been stopped, as a concession to religious feeling. AH hope of saving the steamer Tekapo, which went ashore on the J>lew South Wales Coast on Monday night, has been abandoned. The Earl of Stafford fell in front of an express train at a railway station on the Great Northern Company's line and was decapitated. Seven Englishmen and a Dane have. been arrested in Johannesburg on a charge of enlisting men for service against the Transvaal Government. The cricket match, Australians v. Surrey, it turns out, was only abandoned for the day, and wa3 resumed next morning. The Australians won^by an innings and 71 runs. The story is being told of a millionaire merchant who imagined he was ruined and penniless. To assuage his grief, his sons offered him a 80s a week clerkship in his own office, at which he workod hard and conscientiously for years. He left dE3,000,0Q0. ' . A lady at the Prahran Women's Progressive League: —"l plead with heart and soul that the ideal of womanhood for Australian women should be a mighty ideal. If anything must be crowded out of women's lives, let it be the incredible depths of millinery and idleness and silliness that are apt to content women." A man (fervently), " Hear, hear." (Laughter.) It is announced that in a short time beer will be^n sale'in the form of tabloids. In Germany tke beverage has been reduced to a powder by a process of evaporation, and a very small quantity of the powder, we are told, is needed, with the addition of water and carbonic acid gas, to make a foaming tankard of ale, just as good as if it were freshly drawn from the barrel,