IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1652.—Sir Walter Raleigh box®. 1757.—Admiral Byng shot. 1832.—Reform Bill carried. 1907. —Yen. Archdeacon Williams died.

Four members of the City Council aspirin;; to the mayoralty. The president of the Poultry men’s Conic! on no predicts a groat revival in tb» poultry industry. The' Minister of Customs is prepared to consider applications for the exportation of limited quantities of oats to the United Kingdom and British possessions. The Government have decided to observe Anzae Dav (April 25) as a public holiday. Spariaclsta want to make peace in Berlin. Herr Kesko replied that the term' were unconditional surrender and the giving up o£ all anus. Ille ex-Kaiser is not enamored of the Dutch climate, and wants to go to the Bivicra. Draft proposals by Peace Conference will bo adopted almost immediately, and the German delegates will be invited to Paris next week. The Poultry Association’s Conference is to he held at Dunedin next year. The commercial travellers had a day ont at Wellington yesterday, and raised over £5.C00 for the men of the mercantile marine. . . , , Tho Hororata, carrying the main body draft has been ddaved hv bad weather. She is expected to reach Wellington at 7 o’clock this evening. , No definite information has yet been received from hngland no to the paymnu of prize monev to ox-na-vai ratings and their relatives. Up to the end of Februaiy 37,309 soldiers had returned to New Zealand.