IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18048, 16 August 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES.

1840.—Tho vessel Comta de Paris, with fifty-seven French immigrants, arrived at Akaroa.

1897.—National Gallery of British Art, gift of Mr Tate, opened. 1900.—Elands River relieved by Lord Kitchener.

Captain J, A. Harvey (N.Z. Contingent) killed at Ottoshoof. 1920.—Coronation review at Spithead.

Budget presented. Debate begins on Tuesday next. Dunedin Savings Bank trustees decide to open a South Dunedin branch on October 1. . . Cost of living still rising in Pans, Basket-making is one or the oldest industries in the world. Although 9,529 new subscribers were added to the telephone exchange system of the dominion during the year, there still remain 6,123 persons awaiting telephone exchange connections, and twenty-six exchanges awaiting erection. ' Builders and Contractors.—Timber direct from bush mills; prompt despatch, Hogg and Co., Ltd., Roberta street. Dunedin. P.O. Box 349. —{Advt-3 The Finance Minister expects that for the year ending March 31, 1923, the railway revenue will amount to £7,200,000 and tho expenditure to £6,164,000. , , A man cannot bo accused legally of libelling his wife. Approximately £300,000 will dq spent on highways in British Columbia this year. Imagination rules the world. Without imagination a man is only an animal. _ A proper use of Dewar’s Imperial assists imagination.—[Advt.]

Vacuum sweepers, driven by motors, are suggested for cleaning the streets of New York. . n , , A complete novelty m New Zealand was provided for last, weeks dance of the District Telegraph Engineers Social and Sports Club at Wellington, EOIBO of tho niusio oGitig provided by wireless telephony. The mumc was supplied close to tho Newtown Tost Office, and tho dance was held in Kent terrace.

Quality of woollens alone dee® nob make a fine suit or costume.. Cut, fit, and the details of workmanship are important factors. Suits from £8 10s to £9 10s and Costumes from £8 10s. G. S. Roberts, Exchange (Water street entrance).—{Adyt.] Rabbit traps of over 400 different types were submitted for the prize offered by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Ur these only seven were said to bo prac< Condemned as an Involuntary carrier of typhoid gems, a woman of Illinois, IJ S.A., has been ordered by tho btato Government to live alone in her cottage and prepare food for no one but her* self.

Obanism (350) i Our wowser friends view life through the wrong cud of the telescope. Strike for liberty ■at the coming poll.-* [Advt.] ' ' .