IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —August 26. , 1866.—First Cook Strait cable. 1878—Christchurch and Dunedin joined by ra^' 1883.—Ivraka toa eruption;. 35,000’ lives lost, —August 27. 1664.—Manhattan captured by British from Dutch and named New York. 1879.—Sir Rowland Hill died. 1890.—Maritime strike began. 1918.—Hindenburg lino broken in great Allied drive. Butter up Id per lb. Irish nation aroused over Mr Michael Collins's assassination. Reprisals suggested. Speaking jocularly at the Baklutha W.E.A. meeting on the supposed! immutability of the law of supply and demand. Chief School Inspector Fleming stated that a house in Dunedin offered to him iiad been soid a few weeks later at £7OO more than he had been offered it for. Cabled from London that the Northern Union players have withdrawn their strike threat, and will confer with the council regarding wages. Last year 709 persons were charged with street begging in the Metropolitan police district of London. Dominion doors sro the moat reliable In tho Dominion. Hogg and Co., Ltd. P.O. Bos 349, Dunedin.—-[Advt.] In Europe there are estimated to bo 25,000,000 more women than men, the latter totalling 225,000,000. A London cable states that the receiving order against Sir William Hopwood (who was regarded as the Napoleon of cotton mill finance) has been rescinded, tho creditors haying been paid in full. ’ An unnamed benefactor has donated £IOO,OOO towards the new Midland University, Nottingham, England. Quality of woollens alone does not make a fine suit or costume. ’ Cut, fit, and the details of workmanship are important factors, Suits from £6 10s to £9 10s and Costumes from £8 10s. G. S. Roberts, Stock Exchange (Whter street entrance).—(Advt.] John Price, 'a Newport (Monmouthshide) decker, has won an Oxford University diploma in economics and political science. . Tire Swiss Communist Party adopted a resolution approving of death sentences for the Moscow Social Revolutionaries as the only effective way ’ of preventing revolutions against the Soviet. The Swiss Press bitterly resents the motion. The record number of lightning flashes for England is 1,244 in two nouns, counted on June 6, 1889. Obanism (359): Farewell for ever; I loved you like a brother. Away goes Paape’e .empty bottle. I’m off to the Oban for another.—[Advt.] Largely because Americana are now buying their native product, the Swiss watchmaking industry is in the doldrums, and has despairingly appealed to the Government for a subsidy; 32,000 watchmakers are idle in spite of the fact that watches are being offered at practically cost price. Try Williamson’s, 31 Princes street, with that troublesome watch. It receives expert treatment, with no euro no pay guarantee. -{Advt.] “Let me remind you of what a learned judge has said—namely, ‘ To cross-examine docs not mean to examine crossly,’” remarked His Honor Mr Justice Frazer to Mr W. T. Young, representing the Seamen’s Union, at the sitting .of the Arbitration Court, Wellington.