IN A NUTSHELL.
♦ ! England's Derby Day. ! Lord Chelmsford, born May 301, 182.7. i Parliament will meet on June 23. ! Joan of Arc burned at. Bssaen, M_§r 31, i 1431. ; The Harbour Board meets, at Lyttelton to- • morrow afternoon. '> Horticultural Society's, show, to-morrow in f the Art G-allery. Merivale Football Club'a concert to-morrow night, in the Choral HalL A branch of the Liberal aj_3 Labour Federation is being formei in Wellington. - The subject of intecnafcional arbitration looms large at the Peace Conference. A Russian school is ta be established in Pekin, and the Russian, language fought. A test case, affecting the legality of professional palmistay, waa decided at Wakefield Sessions, when, a man named Liveaey and his wife appealed against a conviction under tho Vaaransy Acil Counsel., for .he appellants urg*i_ tliat palmistry was an ocelli* science, and that it was legal if there was no intention to deceive. Lord Chief Jua&ce Chamberlain and otheii notable persons had lent thems^Nses to the practice of the scignce. ■Witnesses Tgere called to prove their bdisf' in it, and t&a appeal was allowed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6499, 31 May 1899, Page 2
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179IN A NUTSHELL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6499, 31 May 1899, Page 2
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