IN 'A' NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 1

IN 'A' NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —October 7. 1769.—Captain Cook discovered Nw Zealand. 1803. —First convicts arrived at Port Philip Bay. 1891.—Oliver Wcndel Holmes died. 1916.—Raid off American - coast by German submarine U 53. —October B. 1769.—Captain Cook landed at Poverty Bay on first visit. 1871.—Chicago burnt. 1890.—Government Printing Office, Wellington, destroyed by fire. 1895. _“ X ’’-rays discovered by Rontgen. 1900.—Cook Islands annexed by the Governor of New Zealand (Lord Raufurly). 1918.—Lesden captured in final offensive.

Bowling and cricket season opens. Consolidated Estimates passed. Diamonds have been discovered in fallen meteors. An indication of the improved condition of trade in Auckland is afforded (says the ‘ Herald ’) by the prompt manner in which importers are taking delivery of shipment of goods on arrival.

Some excitement was caused at Morrmsvill© on Tuesday last when the midday train from Hamilton arrived with a truck of chaff on fire. The Haines were extinguished before much damage had been done. Eight under the clock.—High grade tailored Suits from £6 13s, Serge Suite from £8 10*, Costumes from £8 10s; all coats tailored by hand.—G. S. Roberts, ladies’ and gents’ tailor, Stock Exchange Buildings.—[Advt.]

Wild pigs are so plentiful in some localities around Kaikonra that twentyfive were shot one day last week. A cricket match on Albury Heath, near Guildford, was held up owing to a swam of bees invading the pitch. The Bankers’ Convention, at New York adopted tire committee’s report, which urged that President Harding should arrange for official participation by the United States in the Reparations Commission, and that Congress bo asked to give the American Debt Funding Commission greater powers to refund the allied debts.

Point Barrow, the largest Eskimo village in Alaska, has seven white people and 600 Eskimos. It also contains the only hospital within a radius.of 1,000 miles.

Although fifty, now houses are completed on a magnificent site near Pontefract, Yorkshire, they cannot be occupied, as there are no drains, water, gas, or electricity available. There is a “space of territory ” in California inside of which wireless tel®» phone messages absolutely disappear. So far as wireless is concerned it is a region of eternal silence. A puffball, the size of a football, found in. Chtheroo, England, weighed over 31b. It provided an appetising meal for sis persons. The taste resembles that ox mushroom.

Experiments show that red glass bottles preserve milk best in hot weather. Plain glass turns milk sour, and brown or black bottles breeds germs by keeping the milk at a nigh temperature.

Have your Wedding King Remodelled into fashionable shape at Williamsons', the ringmakers. They do it quickly ftt small cost—[Advt.j Growing crops of Kent fruits, mainly apples, fetched good prices at auction recently, £3OO being given for 16 acres at Maidstone and £l6B for three acres at Leeds,' five miles from Maidstone. All Victoria Crosses are manufactured from cannon taken from the Russians at Sebastopol. . , Obanism (395) : The British worEfflaa (Soft! his work, he's always gay and hearty; the only thing teat makes him swear in tba ProJiibitioa Parti.—-iAdwtJ