IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1881.—Tsar Alexander 11. assassinated. 1899. —Sir Julius Vogel died. 1900. —Bloemfontein occupied. 1913.—Federal capital christened Canberra. Officers of the Education Department are to visit Auckland to inquire into the question of overcrowding of schools, j A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued ! fixing the price of flour at £ls per ton in--1 stead of £ls 10s, as formerly. | Hurdler Gluterino succumbed to injuries i sustained at Te Aroha on Saturday, j Conscientious objectors in prison in Brii tun v.l.eP ; ri;j;-,■;• ,■ was iv.i num- ] bered 1.352. I The last ship sunk by a U boat was on i No*.i-inher 2, 1918, in i-ho Mediterranean. To put out two fires in London 370 firemen arid e5 motor fire engines were emI Ployed. 1 li,o Baptist Conference nt Auckland has i concluded. The following officers were - elected Chairman of the Union, the ’ i Rev. Harry .Johnson (Mount Eden); secrei iary. ti.e Rev. A. E. Hunt (re-elected) j l rea,uif;r. Mr F. Meailoweroft (re-elected); I auditor, Air H. S. Miller; preacher, Rev. : \V. 'tanner. it was decided to hold next Year's conferenco in Dunedin. Berlin said to be like a battlefield. Murdering and plundering rampant. Owing to a recrudescence of the influenza epidemic at Sydney matiks may be ag.ria eufuK-ed. Sir George steward, the new Commissioner o', finite in Victoria, never served in i he. Force, but lias_ been promoted from the Civil Ser- hv. \V estern Australia and (juc-ttns.land have experimented similarly, but in neither case was it a success. Use a-nihurities of the Prince Alfred Hospital at Sydney are raising £12,000 by means of an act union as a jubilee memorial. and the energetic secretary fMr Wm. Ejiji?) ha® already banked 1(32,000 bnlfcrovins. with one- or two months yet to go. Good luck to him. The expert who gave evidence bob re the Sa'diey * -oal Commission is Fir R. A. Redmaync', v.-ho is reoagnised bp a le-uihi" Eurs.vpean expert on coal mining, Re has been Chief Inspector of British coal I mines since 1908.