IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18032, 28 July 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1540.—Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, beheaded. 1764.—Birth of Rev. Samuel Mare* den, first Church of England missionary in New Zealand. b 1794.—Robespierre guillotined. 1896.—Sentence passed on participators in Jameson Raid. 1914.—Austria declared war on Serbia. 1920.—American yacht Resolute wins first race for America Cup against Sir T. Lipton’s Shamrock IV. Trontham Military Hospital to bo closed at an early date. Reciprocal treaty between New Zealand and Australia tabled in Parliament. Obanlsm (334).—Rheumatics is all a matter of faulty circulation. V.O.S. Port Win® feeds the red corpuscles of the blood; they reciprocate with the white corpuscles, and then the circulation becomes normal. Oban Hotel.—[Advt.] Matthews Burton, who was playing in a cricket match at Sutton-in-Asli-field (England), dropped dead immediately after making the winning hit. Out of 1,948 who travelled through a part of Russia 'in a refuge® train, 1,299 died during the journey. Builders and Contractors. —Timber direct from bush mills; prompt despatch. Hogg and Co., Ltd., Roberts street, Dunedin. P.O, Box 349.—{Advt.] The medical officer of health for Carmarthenshire, Wales, has appealed to mothers in the shire to abandon their practice of cutting babies’ ears at the waning moon. He says that The custom primeval fetish and moaning!ess. Children from three to sis years' old require 11 hours’ sleep out of the 24, 10J hours when eight years old, and 9] when 12 years old. Henderson’s, Morolngton: Legs Mutton, s{d lb; Stewing Steak, sd; Mince, 4d; Chops from 5d lb; Foroquart-ere, 3d lb.—[Advt.] The Ashburton Electric Power Board’s loan authorisation poll, involving a sum of £296,600, was carried yesterday by a majority of 491. A Cologne newspaper announces that the British occupation authorities have forbidden all ranks dancing with German women or attending fetes organised by German private societies. Confidence comes with the first introduction. High-grade Tailored Suits at Brdiock Prices. Prices from £6 10s to £9 1(K Costumes from £8 10s. G. S. Kobcru, Stock Exchange (Water street entrance),— [Advt.] By moans of a now electric:) i machine, claims an American doctor, the disease, sex, and race of a patient can bo told from a drop of his or her blood;

The Coalition Government’s loss in the Pontypridd by-election was flue i» the miners’ vote, the miners believing that the present position in tho cool industry was duo to tho Government's bungling. It needs more courage to suiter lb an in die. Drink Dewar’s Imperial for health ami long life—[Advfc.] Florida was so called by Ponce do Leon because lie discovered it on Easter Sunday, which is in Spanish Pascim Florida. A Romo message that Signet Bonomi has definitely declined to form a Ministry. It is announced that Herr von Brockdorff llantzan will ho appointed German Ambassador to,Moscow. Experience of Scoullar and Chiabolm’s Furniture is that it is the cheapest in tho city. Tost it for yourselves.—[Advt.] An official return of the assets and debts shows that ,ir Franco simultaneously received her full reparations and paid all her debts, the excess of assets over debts would amount to 63,779,000,000 gold francs.