IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. —March 17. 1847.—Wairau (Marlborough) purchased 'by N.Z. Government from Maoris. 1871.—Commune set up in Paris. 1898.—Peace Conference at The Hague. 1917.—-Peronno, Ohaulnes, and Neslo oc- ■ cupied by British. I 1916. —Allies refused to recognise BrestLitovslc Treaty. —March 18.— 1813.—David Livingstone, explorer, born. 1858.—Relief of Lucknow. I.BB3.—First steamer arrived from London to N.Z. 1896.—Brunner mine disaster; 67 men entombed. 1898,—Australian Commonwealth Bill passed. It is understood that a sawmill is to bo opened at Otaki Gorge, where there is » quantity of rimn, Through a masthead riding-light falling on the deck of a large launch at Thames, tho vessel caught fire and was destroyed. The road over the Olira Gorge on Monday was blocked by two big slips. The debris brought down by one, was stated to bo 28£t deep. The United States consumed 472,724,000 lb of wool during 1921, an increase of 72,000,0001 b over 1920. Walter Sidney Mastonnan, fishery inspector at Grimsby (England), has been committed for trial ’on a charge of embezzling £862 belonging to the Board of Fisheries.

It is 26 years to-morrow since the first general meeting of shareholders in the Dunodin-R-osiyn Ttemway Company was held.

The largest public library outside the four centres is that of Invercargill. The last census shows that it fmtains 18,893 volumes and has 1,524 subscribers, "Tim Ohnrdh ia saddled with property all over the Dominion on which it is never intended to build, but on which it lias to pay rates," remarked a speaker at this week’s mooting of tho Wellington Presby-

tery. A London cable states that tho Waimana’s emigrants include the Salvation Army’s party of children, including war orphans, whoso average age is _ five years. Foreign-bom whites from thirty-one different countries to the total number -of 1,991,647 rosido in Now York City. He finger naila are affected by certain bodily diseases, thus forming an indication to the general health.Machines are being exported America which will clean a man’s suit in ten minutes at a cost of Is 9d.

A meerschaum pipe wfeich would have cost 15s before tho war could not bo purchased to-day for less than £4. A tarantula, tho giant bird-eating spider, has been found alive in Birmingham. It ia supposed to have been brought from its tropical homo in a- consignment of bananas. British tenders for tho building of two steamers for tho Netherlands Company were 20 par cent, higher than those of Continental shipyards, so British industry fost orders worth about £1,000,000. Dominion doom aro tho most reliable in tho Dominion. Hopg and Co., Ltd. P.O. Box 349, Dunedin.—[Advt.]