ANNIVERSARIES.
MARCH 8. 1702 —William 111. died. 1801 —Battle of Aboukir. 1837—Name Melbourne given to town at mouth of Yarra. : 1858 —Siege of Lucknow commenced. 1904 —Anglo-French Agreement signed. 1915 —HAI.S. Queen Elizabeth entered Dardanelles. , 1917 —Russian Revolution began.. 1926 —Wireless telephony between New York and London. - MARCH 9. 1869—Ship Bluejacket, bound fromLvttelton to London, with wool, burned off Falkland! Islands. —Wreck of Elginshire south of Timaru. 1917—'Battle of Vi my Ridge. 1930—Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd returned to, Dunedin after flight over South Pole. 19321— De Valera elected president of the Bail Eirann. 1939—(Record estimate of. aerial expenditure of £229,626,700., introduced into Commons by Sir Kingsley Wood.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 125, 8 March 1941, Page 4
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