IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17034, 3 May 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1494. —Jamaica discovered. 1341.—New Zealand declared indepenI dent. I 1845. —Thomas Hood (‘Song of the ! Shirt’) died. I Installation of Mayor Begg on WednesI day. Hungarian Government have fallen and several of the Ministers flitted. Arthur Leo Bon Ashton, the prisoner who on Thursday jumped off a train while being escorted to the Invercargill Borstal Institution, was recaptured yesterday afternoon at Glencoe, about 13 miles from the scene of his escape. The text of the Peace Teraty will be handed to the 18 minor Powers before presentation to the Germans, but no amendments will be accepted. Sixteen persons implicated in the Punjab riots sentenced) to imprisonment or transportation, varying from life to seven months. The arrest of Victor Keen in connection with the Mikon robbery and the recovery of £336 of the stolen money is a feather in the cap of Constable Palmer, of Oamaru. Anarchists are to be rooted out of America neck and crop. The defeat of the Bolsheviks on the Russian front continues, and they are retreating pell-mell in all directions. Splendid proeiveets for new coal mine at Nine Mils, West Coast. Both qua!itj and quantity well spoken of.