IN A NUTSHELL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6597, 22 September 1899, Page 3

IN A NUTSHELL.

The vintage in France is abundant and of splendid quality. ' Since the liboratiton of Dreyfus the boycott of the Paris Exhibition' is collapsing. Dr Baxter Gow, of Prestsrick, has been appointed superintendent of the New Zealand Lunatic Asylums. /: An earthquake at Aiden, a town in Asia Minor, sixty miles from Smyrna, killed one hundred persons and destroyed many houses. Sixty churches* in .the dioceses of London and Rochester have abandoned the ceremonial use of incense in accordance with the recent decision of the Archbishops. Fifty-three Afrikander- members of the Cape ■Parliament have urged President Kruger to do his utmost, short of sacrificing the indeDendence of the Transvaal, to avert war. . M. Max Regis, formerly Mayor of Algiers, and a. number of otter members of the AnxiSemitic Party, barricaded a house in Algiers. The police attacked them, and a severe conflict, followed. Several persons were sliofc on both sides. Sir Alfred Milner has reassured President Steyn regarding the presence of British troops on the frontier, and promised to respect the integrity of the Orange Free State. He also expressed a hope that in the evont of hostilities between Great Britain and the Transvaal the Free State will preserve neutrality and prevent any military intervention by its citizens. President Steyn promised to do hia utmost to allay excitement If, however, the Burghers regarded Great Britain's military movements as menacing, the responsibility of the outcome would not be his. ,