IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17319, 6 April 1920, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. a 1812.—Baflajo? stormed. 1 1909.—Peary reached the North Pole. The United District Fire Brigade*’ demonstration at Masterton finished yesterday. Napier secured tho grand asgregate, with Masterton second and Ilas.t----j ings third. Napier won both tho Me- : morial and M'Millan Shields, and alac i the Lcipst Oup, tying also with Master* j ton for the Low-pressure Shield. Master* I ton won the Greathead Cup, and Danne* | virkc the Licensed Victuallers’ Cnp. | The importance o£ securing immediate supplies' of Australian and New Zealand timber is urged upon the Government by the annual conference of tho New Zealand Coach and Motor Vehicle Trades Industrial Association of Employers. It is customary in Siberia for a girl j who has accepted the suitor she favors ! to present him with a box of matches and ; a pair of slippers as a sign that he 1* to j be master in the home. The first stained-glass window depicting an aeroplane to bo placed in a church is now to he seen; in a London place of worship. j Very little wind prevail.* in the Arctic j regions, and this foot facilitates the transmission of sound. Persons there can con* veyse when a mile apart. The American Evangelical churches in conference now announce an appeal for 1,300, C00,0C0d01, or about £300,000,000, to be collected in five years, for home and foreign social and religious work. Gum-nut Babies 1 Gum-nut Babie*! i WTiat’s your secret, little ladies? Is it true, what we’s been told, That you cannot catch a cold? When the weather*s. damp end breesy, Are you really never wheezy ? W r e kindergarten kids ere euro You take -Woods’ Great Peppermint Cm*. p -■ —-fAdvUn