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Evening Star, Issue 17850, 22 December 1921, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1878.—Entile of Shorpur } Genera! Roberts repulsed Afghans, with great loss. 1880.—Death of Mrs Cross (George Eliot), novelist; aged sixty, Summer solstice. Parliament has adjourned for three weeks over the Christmas holidays. Should the Irish Peace Treaty be ratified before Christmas an amnesty will bo granted to all political prisoners, including those under sentence of death. The recent epidemic of fires at Winton solved by the plea, of guiliv to five charges of arson entered by Harold James Hill. The population of Groat Britain on June 19 was 42,767,530. This is an increase of 1,936,134 compared with 1911. A new sub-clause is added to clause 17 of the Finance Bill, providing that the duty payable on stakes won at any race meeting at which the totalizator is not used shall not be affected by the increased taxation imposed in recent legislation. The British Bulldog Club’s rooms were bombed during an air raid, and their wondoifu! paintings of bulldogs (26) were sold for the wax funds. Dunedin has secured them. On view Oban Hotel. Get your bottle. You secure a corkscrew Saturday*— [Advt.] In 1920 tho railways of Great Britain spent £250,000,000. Before tho war the average annual expenditure was £76,000,000. Women to day buy 60 per cent, more slices than they ever did before. Deaf people are to have special churches in Germany, with telephones between the pulpit and Hie pews. Belgium will establish a National School of Hotel .Management in Brussels. Tiro school takes tho form of a model hotel. After bathing in a river in East Africa a while hunter suffered from temporary blindness, supposed to be duo to Homo peculiar element in the water. For good, sound, ami matured old Scotch whisky try the Provincial Hotel.—{Adttj The ocean lied to a depth of seven railos can be tested and graded by means of & little appliance which can be lowered and which grabs a sample of the sea bed. William George Brown, of Croydon, was found suffering from loss of memory at Merstham, but on seeing his mother ho regained his memory. Oysters are suffering from a form of '* influenza,” which is causing much damage to the fisheries. It does not affect the edible properties of those oysters which survive. To meet the keg shortage we have a, big supply of 2 to sgal jars, 50 “Blue Pet ere,” and an unlimited supply of “Baggers” Orders should be left before noon Oban Hotel.—[Advt.] James Bonting summoned eleven boy*, including his own son, before the Marylebone Station Police Court for playing football in a public garden on a Sunday. Ho called them intolerable nuisances, and said that he had dealt personally with his own boy, and wanted all punished together. Accordingly they wore all fined.

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