IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANI IVERSARIES. 18d4.—Otago purchased from Maoris. 1865.—First railway opened in QueenslfUlß73.—Bii ngiloto wrecked, Jackson Head.

All Blacks win first Rugby tost against New South Wales. The octopus is the greatest enemy o I crabs and lobsl&’s. In an English Police Court a, boy was lined for removing a mother robin from her nest. _ . South beats North by 0 goals to 1 in interisland hockey matdn 4 Of seventeen bankruptcies gazetted last week, only throe are from the South y commercial treaty betueen Biitain and Spain has been signed, Vr .Builder, you appreciate good work. Superior fittings half sell a house, doors m There is no timber eo beautiful ik figured red pine. Consult Hogg and Co., Ltd. P.O. Box 349, Dunedin.—[Advi] A Canton cable states that a motor launch belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Comnanv, flying the British Flag, wm fired"on by the Merchants’ Defence Corps. The Chinesecoxswain was lulled. 11 A n y fool can go to the devil, _but ( it lakes a strong man to bo a Christian. Archdeacon Stanton Jones. Sailors numbering 20,000 and 10,000 workers in naval dockyards will have been dismissed by the end of next year. Confidence comes with the first introduction. High-grade Tailored Suits at Bedrock Prices. X’riccs from £6 10s to £9 10*. Costumes from £8 10s. G.- S. Roberts, Stock Exchange (Water street entrance).— Congregational minister at Brentwood, in Essex, who has been at «nochurchfor fifty years, has preached 4,500 c ennons containing 16,000,000 words. «o much interest are women taking In snorts to-day that ft Women’s Amateur Athletic .Association is being formed, to England to regulate and control their *ObSm (336)! ‘‘Well, niy fr'ca’.l don’t feel ver’ good. I hafe a little hoarse oo ill Croat" in fac’, I have a colt.’’ Get busy, old chap. R.N. Oban Hotel. “Commerce is a pleasant and _ profitable game, providing it is plajed fairly. Dr Takuma Dan. Illicit whisky stills m the monntama o: Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, United States of America, are eaid to number about 10.000, about 50,000 people being concerned in the “industry.” Nothing can be more disastrous than an unhappy marriage. Lot those so situated drink Dewar’s Imperial.—[Advt] Notre Dame Convent, in Montreal, _the oldest teaching institution in the province of Quebec, founded in 1690 by the Venerable (Marguerite Bourgeons, has been totally destroyed by fire.