IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES,

1872. —First graving dock opened at Port Chalmers. 1902. Red Sunday ’ massacres at Petrograd. 1903. —Sir George Whitmore died. 1915. —Yon Tirpitz dismissed. 1917. —Gorman retreat on Somme.

Thirty-nino years ago to-day the Mornington cable tramway was opened. Two years later witnessed the opening of trie extension to Maryliill. „ Dunedin Club bowlers beat St. Clair m the final of the four-rink championship. The Church of England s voluntary offerings in Great Britain for 1921 totalled £10,493,716, including missions. A total of £1,004.000 lias been lost to the Irish egg industry through hoarding for better prices. Egga are now retelling in Ireland for one penny. Experts ea.y that tho industry is ruined. \ representative of British manufacturing firms informed a ‘Dominion’ reporter that within the past two months aluminium goods had' fallen in price by 15 to .25 per cent., and cutlery prices had been reduced by 15 per cent. . Speaking at a dinner in ins honor at Hokitika on Saturday night, the Hon. J. U Coates, in answer to a direct question, said that if no untoward circumstances ar os® it was hoped to have the Otira tumid opened before tho end of the year. Demands for a new award have boon, filed by the New Zealand Cooks and Stewards’ Union. The stewards are osking for an increase in wages of about £2 a. month, and the cooks for an incrdsie of about £3. , , Entire block in the central business part of Chicago destroyed by fire. Incendiarism suspected. Prince Henry, riding his own norss, Icenu 111., finished second at the Grafton Hunt point-to-point race, after leading 1a the last fence over as| miles course. ( General Semenoff at Victoria (8.C.) en route to Paris, to obtain the support of compatriots for an antiBolshevik’ project to foment a revolution in Western Siberia. There was a plague of rod spiders in West Cornwall recently. _ National Savings Certificates numbering 841,110 were sold in England in a recent week. Nearly four times as many houses wore completed and ready for occupation in September as in January last. The Russian Government is about to dismiss 800,000 Civil servants, according to a report of tho Exchange News Agency. A water melon presented to President Harding by a Californian grower was 30 m long and 32in round, and weighed 761 b. Canadian potatoes exported to the United State-; amounted to 116,249 bushels in September, and 160,536 bushels in October. Germans numbering 3,610 applied for admission to Britain in the 'first nine months of 1921. All but 118 wore permitted to enter. Builders and Contractors.—-Timber direct from bush mills; prompt despatch. Hogg and Co., Dtd., Roberts street, Denedifl. ICO. Bos 349.r=CAttvt.l, -