IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17033, 2 May 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

A NNIMERSARIES. 1864. -Meyerbeer, composer, died. Bolshevik regime in Russian waning. Leaders Trotsky and Lenin seeking a place of refuge. , . , The Dominion post and telegraph revenue for the quarter ended March 51 was £473,123, compared with £506,563 for the first quarter of 1918. , 4nother of Duned ins landmarks—the Imperial Hotel in Princes street south—is iri process of demolition. It was here, we think the Duke of Edinburgh stayed. Tt- is proposed to close wh&t is believed, to be the smallest school in England—that at Elmly, a detached part of the Isle of HLeppey. ’ There are onlv five pupila on the books, and three of those are children of the head teacher. The Now Zealand Town Planning Conference is to be opened at Wellington on May 20. Exhibits are arriving freely. At Auckland yesterday William Mors ley was fined £SO on a charge of bookmaking. Sidnev Duv, for making bets, was fined £2O. ‘ League of Nation*’ first meeting at We*hingterr in October. Mr Llovd George and \ " Ck-menceau will proliably attend. The P.O. Savinas Bank deposits in New Zealand during the quarter ended March 31 were £5,860,478, and the withdrawals £4.829,475. The influenza epidemic is said to be abating in New South Wales, but extending in South Australia. The value of the Dominion’s exports during the first quarter of 1919 was £13,982.880, against £10,192,685 for the corresponding period of 1918." The import figures for the same period are £8,300,780 and £6,097,390. Slaughtermen in the employ of the Waingawa (Masterton) freezing works are now receiving 35s per 100 for the slaughtering of sheep. Some of the men can earn as much as £lO 10a per week.