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Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 1

II A NUTSHELL ANNWEmRIES. 1872.—Whaler Adventure sank in Auckland Harbor. 1839.—-Sir Julius Vogel died. .1917.—Bapaoxno occupied by British. Tho prize money for the band contest held at Masterton in tho year 1903 totalled £265. For this year’s contest it is proposed to give £350. ' Orchardiste in Central Otago are enthusiastic in regard to tho proposed pioneer shipment of Otago apples .per Zealandic next month. A notice in this week's ‘ Gazette ’ reduces from twonty-one to ten years the term for which the Gore Borough Council is empowered to borrow £2,000 for the flood protective works, and raises the rate of interest from 5i to 6 per cent. The United States Senate adopted Senator Lodge’s resolution extending fm twenty-five years tho 50,0G0,000d01i loan tc Austria for famine relief. Before placing your order for timber and joinery consult Hogg and Co., Ltd., Dunedin, who aro specialists. When in Dunedin call and see their works, also examine their patent lining; most unique on tho market. P.O. Box 349.—[Advt.] Orders in Council are gazetted revoking tho prohibition on the importation of fruit pulp and jam produced in Australia and revoking the prohibition on the exportation of whootmeal, flour, bran, and pollard. Falconry, the art- of hunting with trained birds, was known, in China about 2000 n.o. The German literary mill ground out 2,345 books in 1920, an increase of 6,151 over 1919. Over 6,000 stamps of the former Gorman South-west African colonies are to bo sold by -tender. A greyhound, sold and sent by train from Boorowa to Muswclltown, in New South Wales, has tramped home tho whole 400 miles. Here’s to the lassos we’ve loved, my lad; here's to the lips wo’vo pressed, my lad. The last is ‘always the best, my lad, like Dewar’s Imperial.—['Advt.] Tho more prosperous regions of Franco ■have given a sum equivalent to about £500,000 to aid tho people of tho wardevastated districts. Out of tho world’s crude oil production of 694,854,000 barrels in 1920 the United States produced 63.8 per cant., and Mexico 23.5 per cent. It is reported that both Spain and Franco aro agreed on the practicability of a tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, to join Europe to Africa. Hugo Slinnes, tk| German millionaire, has acquired control of three Hungarian newspapers with monarchist leanings, according to a report of a Vienna paper. The Moscow 1 Izvcstia ’ announces that it will receive advertisements at tho rate of 50,000 roubles a lino—-£5,000 at prewar rates, now problematically worth 3b. Experience of Scoullat and CMebolm’fl Furniture is that it is tho cheapest in tho city. Tret it for yonmelves.--[Advt.] An engine of the London-io-Bristnl express makes what is claimed to ho the world's record speed for a long ran. Tho train covers tbs ninety-one mike between Southall and Badtoiinj»ton at an average speed of nearly sixty-three miles an hour, seventeen miles being at nearly seventynine miles an hour. A Soviet decree levying a duty of odO roubles on every matchbox containing 75 matches has been issued in Moscow.

WIFE’S NEW PRIVILEGE'. A sailor, James Ingranij on returning to Montreal, was sent to prison for a month because while he was at scsa his wife sold liquor illegally in Mont/eal. As the law stands, any wife who want* to get rid of a burdensome hns band for a four months has only to break the liquor law. First Pedestrian (colliding with pillar box) t “ Oh, I beg pardon." Second Ditto (runriiag into name pilar bon) t “Not -at all; my fault r