IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1848.—Philip Laing arrived. 1898.—Major Kemp died. 1907.—First Imperial Conference opened. Mr John Edie elected member for Bruce. Waterside 'workers accept employers? terras. ' Prince of Wales reached Honolulu. The Renown is due at Auckland early on Saturday, the 24th inst. Westralia, which ran ashore at Clark Island. Tasmania, on Tuesday night, refloated, and proceeded to Melbourne under her own steam. - A patient who died at’ the Sunnyside Mental Hospital, had been an inmate of the institution since 1870. ■ He was 88 years of age. _ During a fog the air is polluted 30 times as much as on a normally clear day. Needles were first made in 1545, when the making of 10 was a good day’s work. More than half the daily and weekly news capers of the world are printed in English. The Masterton Dairy Company have been awarded first prize at the Sydney Roval Show for butter for export. The Eastern habit of secluding their women is still prevalent among most Spaniards. Auckland was plunged into darkness for about an hour last evening, owing to a break in the electric wires. In the English language there are more surnames beginning with “W 7 ” than any other letter. Mr C. G. Walcox, a licentiate of the Presbyterian Church, has accepted a call from the Owaka congregation. Messrs H. J. Middleton and G. A. Lam, president and secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, left for Wellington to-dav to attend a conference between the Dominion Butter Committee and the Prime Minister. An albatross, probably driven inland by the recent storm, was captured by Mr R. Jensen in a paddock at South Wairarapa. The bird bad a wing spread of lift.