IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6551, 3 August 1899, Page 2

IN A NUTSHELL.

:|-siccart»n;vTuveniles at j Theatre Royal toV^gpllaiftLbsfc' opera season i opens .at Theatre Royftf.on Saturday. a .. ' » „ C**£i :vW§llington v. Canterbury football .«,.. znafch. ajjvLa&Jaster Park on Saturday. , '" /^" : ' ■ Ys>ki -Wellington team -wori the football match wibhiiOjfago by six points to three. c^ffheAßritish yncht Shamrock has started fcr is&w''York to compote for ihe America "Cup.,^ ; -' 'The Canadian Parliament has'e^p. ea;-E_ sympathy wi!h the L'itlnr.dcrsr.r.dj enthusiastic approval of the Imperial policy. '-': 'Y-Y The Marj-Icbone team mads 151 in tha second innings of their match with the Australians, who won by nine wickets. The Pope has confirmed the decision of the recent Conference of Bishops at Rome to extend Latin Catholicism to the United States. The itaad has rejected President Kruger'3 proposals for the removal of the disabilities on Roman Cat'>olio9 and Jews in the Transvaal. The Pwis co-rospondonts of the "Standard" and " Daily ■ Nsv;a " associate WL Dc-leaoss's visit "to ihs Czar with South African questions, * "" All the banks doing .-business .in New Ze-a-j land, have decided .to. make , a charge upon; every account to cover cos ! b of stationery, pass; hooks, etcJ' • ; '"'""', ' ' • '■'''■■■■'' .- ". An income tax- of ls ih the £ on incomesover £300 per- ar,nn-.Tt..r- da landJtax..of v a lydf-' r ponny, in., the. £ on -csLa-les over £1209 have: ,pr'oposrd.,in the Cap"V Colpn'V Parliament. : ' ; French jour'n'alists hint'^at^'-iJossiVjle'PrancO-i 'Ru'sslari''ehtente.-'v?!£li'tlic- fbisct 61 •bba'truct-' ing the BriihVin f>e Transvaal, and prevent--ine; possible hostilities during the Paris exhibition, The Wellington Grocers' Assistants' Unionhas endorsed the complaint, of the Christchurch Grocers' Assistants' Union of the delay in settling the disnute in the trade now before the IndnsHal Arbitration Court. A number of Soanish officers, court-mar-tialled at Madrid for having surrender ad Santiago de Cuba to the Americans, declared that the town was defenceless, and that ihe defenders were short of focd, and three-fourths of them ill.