IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 17926, 23 March 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1865.—Captains Spake and Grant announced discovery of source of Nile in Lake Victoria Nyanza. 1900.—Reinforcements for Cronje at Paardeberg beaten off. Anniversary Day. A message from Helsingfors state that Lenin is reported to be suffering from cancer. Owing to the absence of the King through a cold, the Queen on, Tuesday opened tbo reconstructed and enlarged Waterloo railway station, which is now the largest in London. There are twentyone platforms. A debtor at tbo Magistrate’s Court at Auckland stated that his wage was £4 per week. He had a wife and five children to maintain, and also pair! £2 per week rent for an unfurnished house. No order was made. Wood-boring insects are said to communicate with ono another by means of taps. Saddle horses were used by the English as long ago as 631. ■Many of England’s most famous schools were founded as charitable institutions.

A market gardener at Auckland who was contemplating a good return from a particularly fine crop of citron melons he had growm was surprised one morning to find the crop bad been stolen. About three tons were removed during the night. The Middlemarch branch of the Fanners’ Union, at its recent monthly meeting, passed a resolution protesting “ against the excessive charges now being made by tbo telephono department, ana requesting the provincial executive to urge the department to reduce them to the former level.”

Though tho house shortage is still acute, several properties on small deposits can be heard of at Austen's, 16 Frederick street. — [Advt.]

Armed Sinn Feinere, arriving in four motor cars, seized a hall at Beragh, County Tyrone, recently, and hold a court. Ono of tbo defendants refused, to pay a fine of £2, and £2 worth of his property was destroyed instead. The Eskimos are naturally one of tho healthiest peoples in the w r orld, Why this should be so is not as yet apparent. The .School of Hygiene of the John Hopkins University, America, will send, out an expedition next May to study dietetics and nutrition among the Eskimos. The congregation at Mass in St. Peter’s recently was startled by a loud voice crying “Adoro mo, who am the new Mesriah.” It was a man, hardly twenty, who violently resisted all efforts to eject him. Ho was’ taken to hospital, declared insane, ami confined in an asylum.

Have you seen the new patent lining manufactured by Hogg and Co, Ltd,, Roberts street, Dunedin ? Most unique lining over manufactured; in oak, rod pine, Oregon, and Californian redwood; draughtproof, dustproof; run from dry timbers; delightful effect in dining rooms, cntrancs halls. Call and see samples.—[Advt.]