News in a Nutshell.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 2

News m a Nutshell.

' ■ .VJ: ' < !\s •■! A train carrying ita__awn motive power, ia the form of stared electricity, is a feature of the Melbaurne'Engineer'B Exhibition, 1 The- proprietors of the Tojfn and Cbua« ; ! try Journal offer 100' guineas for the best ' water-colour or oil painting ipaio ted by a colonial artist. .• .:•- :,.■.: ■ The Immigration Agent for New South Wales haaiiaued a. broadsheet, entitled ' Australian information fop British ,jour%.,. Btaliats.'' t- . ..' Before Jjadf Bosebery left San Fran-* , oisco for -Australia:; ghe visited < the Synagogue, and after^pasaing som« time m derotion ska left £20 tabe distributed among the poor. ' The Sandhurst (V^toria^gold returns for the paatyear show a total output, off 221,9810zs. t ~or aljTdnt ßs~tona i oT'gold. About • &9tyOOO Was ' 'expended ia machinery during the same period. Fred was proud and happy "when 1 khe accepted him as her escort home. As they were ipltting" he -sidled up Uo her, and looking heavenward exclaimed * Oh, 1$ •cc the comet. 1 ■ §he glanced towards the/i blue ''ethereal sky, and then came a sound** like a, hofae lifting hia hoof from a mad* .hole. He left rejoicing! " ! The vast population, traffic, an.d turm« „ oil 6f the worliV metropolis arertrikmglp • suggested by' the -simple ■tutement that:* 2200 trains loave the railroad' stations of > Londuu every 34 hours. . t . ■ , hf ■.<■■, . • Sgoyching heat, rain, hail, ■■thunder,; ; lightping- all ; in one day— it what i». reported from Dune iin... We have had it bad eno.ush, but BtUl n.ot quite so bao^,. as that. . •-.'■"' The proposal to, «ta.ri an Ajrrie'aUlral and ras,tora.l A*«°ci a tioa , at Hawera, ia likely to 'be Buccefftful. A jury m a breach ojf promi&» case—^ Miller v. Joy— awarded the plaintiff fwi<^ ' was rather an old maid V £2360 dauiHges.* Th<> editor of London Triith >rers thai m coDsequenoe no- less thaa 738 correspon-v dents aen,t him th# folio winj; oonundrum % — ' |s a thing of beauty a Joy. for aver ? K The West Lancashire Kailwa.j Qoih* ' pany does not ' permit intoxicating drinks to be sold at any of its re'tri&ttraene rooms h and all tLe e.mpAa\yw ha,vetobe tietotaU lera,