IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

__— —* ANNIVERSARIES. 1797.—8ank of England issued £1 notes. 1855.—First telegraph line opened m Victoria. . . . 1868.—Prince Alfred shot m .Sydney. Couserinfiun doomed. Germany to be called on by Peace Conference it) surrender the officials responsible, for the war crimes for trial by an international tribunal. The, mails which left New Zealand on 30th January arrived in London on 10th March. * , c , £ , As a result of the not in the fotrand, Admiral Sims lias recalled all American sailors from leave in London. The Dunedin branch of the Boot Retailers' Association decided to give every .assistance to the Board of Trade in the matter of standardised footwear. Silk-hat prices in Paris went up 100 per cent, in a week before the opening of

' the Pea.ee Congress. j Scotland Yard finger-print record now contains 283,000 impressions. During four days 01 armistice celebrations London ambulances had 371 calls. At the final sitting yesterday of the Methodist Conference at Christchurch a ! recommendation by the Committee on the j Work of Synods and of the Conference to ; make a material reduction in the memberj ship of the, conference was rejected. Auckland Harbor Board propose to offer the old dock site, containing over an acre of land, valued at £70,000, to the City Council for the erection of a pea.ee memorial, provided such memorial shall be erected in accordance with suggestions made by the board at a cost of £20,000.