IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17085, 2 July 1919, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. 1850. —Sir Robert Peel died. 1872.—First cable message England to Melbourne. „ 1881.—President Garlicid allot. The railway authorities declare thet they have only sufficient coal on hand to run the trains lor nine or ten days. The Government, it is said, are endeavoring to arrange for vessels to go to Australia to load coal. Ticer skins are valued at from £8 to £ls apiece. . . Croix do Guerre awarded during the war numbered 1,849,800. The conference of mayors which the Mavor of Christchurch is, arranging has been postponed till after the Municipal Conference. Deer shooting on tho (bast is becoming popular. The South Westland country has been booked up for next season. The Haast, Landsborough, and Wills area have all been taken up by Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, and Westland stalkers. Paris is to have a fleet of its own for the purpose of supplying the capital with coal. . .... Out of 17 Presbyterian churohas is Southland which expressed an opinion on church union only two were against the General Assembly’s proposal. Fifty cinemas have been sent to Siberia by the American Y.M.C.A. "One pound of wheat is of greater value as food than a pound of meat. A conference of waterside workers was bold at Wellington yesterday to discuss a new agreement. £IOO was voted to tho Broken Hill Miners’ Union. Matches may be made in heaven, nut they are sold on earth. So is Dewar’s Imperial, at a moderate price.—[Advt.] A curious development of the Broken Hill strike occurred a week or two ago, when- the boys engaged to deliver the official newspaper of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association went on strike, objecting to a proposal that they should accept half-time work. Colonics are to ho organised in Russia to accommodate 500.000 starving children. The War Office staff,_ military and civilian. numbered on Armistice Day 27,807. All eun makes a desort, but Dewar’s Imperial produces sunshine in just the exact quantity.—[Advt.]