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Evening Star, Issue 17793, 15 October 1921, Page 1

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ANNIVERSARIES. October IS, 1769,—-Ilawltes Bay discovered end so named by Captain Cook. 1012.—French retreat from Moscow , commenced. j 1877. —Sir George Grey Premier of , New Zealand. 1915.—Britain declared war on Eul- > garia. October 16, 1815,—Napoleon landed at St. Helena. 1834.—Parliament Houses, Westminster, destroyed. 1350.—Massacre of Christian population at .Aleppo, 1875.—Purchase of Dunedin Gasworks by Gitv Council for £43,500. 1899. -Kimberley and Matching isolated ) by tho Boers. ’ - 1900. —Cook Islands annexed by New ; Zealand for Great Britain. j 1914.—Main Expeditionary Force , left • Now Zealand. Three-wheeled taxi-cabs are now,.run- 1 ning in tho Paris streets. ! July was the driest month London has known for eighty years. Cases of sleeping sickness to tho number of 1,475 were reported in Sweden in 1921. A good tailor is MacLeod MaoGffllnray* Eattray street (opposite D.1.C.). —[AdvtJ Discharge of crude oil front vessels _ia doing such immense damage to fisheries around Britain that a law will probably bo passed to prevent the evil. Tho £103,000,000 which Japan is spending on national defence represents 51.4 per cent, of tire gross national revenue (£210,000,000) for 1921-22. At tho Isloworth Day feto on behalf of Hounslow Hospital, a mother who entered her rcoently-bom child (the eighteenth) for the baby show was stated to have fifteen daughters. Tho highest sun tomperatura ever recorded was at Muscat, on tho Persian Gulf, where the black bulb solar thermomotor has registered 187 degrees. Phonoscript, a method of teaching tho language involving an alphabet of iortyBoven characters, Is claimed by its inventor to enable children to pronounce any word at sight. Have you seen the new patent lining manufactured by Hogg and Co, Ltd., Ru-b-aria street, Dunedin? Most unique lining ever manufactured; iu oak, red pmo, Oregon, and Californian redwood; draught* proof, dustproofj run from dry timbers.; delightful effect in dining rooms, entrance halls. Call and see camples-—[Advt.] During 1920 154 inmates of establish* merits for lunatics in Scotland made their escape. Of those sixty-one were brought back within twenty-four hours, forty-three within a week, ,-iud twelve after a week. During tho war banana plantations in Jamaica' were levelled to _ plant sugar canes. Now, with a dump in sugar, the canes are being uprooted and bananas planted again. This year it is hoped to export 10.000,000 bunches, or about' 1,200,000,000 bananas, Tho biggest and most powerful telescope in the world has recently been installed in Mount Wilson Observatory, America* more than a mile above 60 level. With its parte it weighs 100 tons, _ and the great mirror alone is 13in thick, 100 m iu diameter, and weighs four and a-'half. tons. Why get your hands dirty and bother with cases or tins when you can get your car filled with -Shell motor spirit in two minutes from, Todd Bros-’n, Ltd., bowser? Guaranteed nothing hut Shell now used,— [Advt.] The capacity of tho hydro-olcctriopower plants iu operation throughout France increased from 750.000 hom-power in 1813 to 1,200.000 horse-power at the end of 1918. Additional developments projected will if carried out. result in tho doubling of ill© 1913 capacity by 1922.