IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1839. Punjab annexed. 1912.—About this date Captain Scott. Dr Wilson, and Lieutenant Bowers perished, returning from South Pole. The loan proposil to borrow £1,500,000 for hydro-ebctric scheme for Southland was carried by 6,531 votes to 416. Proposal to raise loan of £20,000 for erection of bridge over the Thames River at Puriri was carried on Friday, by 94-55. Tiie mildest mining camp is at Cobalt, Canada, where there has never been a liquor saloon, and gambling in public has been prohibited.
The invention of the ordinary balloon is said to have had a very simple origin. A linen shirt was hanging in front of a iire, and Stephen Montgoliier, who'is eaid to have invented the balloon, noticed that fts the warm air rose it took the shirt with it. '
Thebattls of Waterloo began and finished in eight hours. The "fire" of an opal is due to the presence of water in the gem. The Bruce nomination has been fixed for a statutory holiday, which is a most unusual happening. Come and trip it as you' go on the light fantastic toe, and drink Dewar's Imperial. —[Advt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17313, 29 March 1920, Page 1
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190IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 17313, 29 March 1920, Page 1
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