IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 16987, 8 March 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

i^rSTVERSAItIES. 1702.—Wmiam lIL of England dial. : 1827.—Sydney Q.P.O. established. 1887.—Henry Ward Beecher died. ISO2-—British New Guinea placed nnd« Commonwealth (M&rdi 9). For having made bets on Takapana racecourse Onmond' M. Brvoe, described ;m a silver bettor, was fined £2O and costs. Canterbury " commeaxiali" endeavoring to raise £B,OOO to conserve lancaster Park as a sports around «gA making it a memorial to athfotos. Yesterday £3,000 was raised by ant union. Only Messrs Georg« Livingstone (Windsor, *g*ki»g member) and William Sheddon Tbomsotn (Warepa) nominattd for Otago Luad Board vacancy. Utagfi' Boy/ High School oocunias. foui plr/aa <unoo# the_ leading 10 successes in national »cholarship examinationfl. Bucks andDunlop showing 2 ood tenni* fjarpi ? wfchh is interesting in view of th< By disposing of £3,000 worth of tickets irte &r.d drawing the art union in a single (fay Canterbury coiHonercial traveller** esfaolislied a Dominion record. extension cables are shqzsinc over Unroe days' delay on Homeward fuif rate traffic, and the delay ia likely fx> inFif.ffi'in/rkm training traekg flooded ej result of recent floods. V.R.C. meeting unlikely to b* held next -week. * Clpm-Tip" -Break in Auckland has bew sxt«»<f»d several days. Much refuge hai Iwen cleared mp and carted away to bt destroy ed. Ooai miners again proving troublesome Blackball dispute occasions stop-worl meeiiaga j3I *»■• Urn Tloainian