IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18257, 23 April 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1616.—Shakespeare died (bom 1564). 1849. —Regatta at Port Chalmers, Of native name Koputai, 1850. —Wordsworth died. 1872.—Eruption of Mount Vesuvius} sixty lives lost. St. George’s Day. All Post Offices will bo closed on Anzao Day._ ' Telegraph offices which observe evening attendance on Sunday will open 5 till 6.30 p.m. Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington will open from 10 till 10.30 a.m. and 5 till 6.30 p.m. The telephone exchange will observe Sunday hours. Seventeen bankruptcies notified in last issue of ‘Gazette,’ fourteen of these being in the North Island. Licenses to celebrate marriages have been granted to two woman officers of the Salvation Army in Brisbane—Staff Captain Mary Bently and Adjutant Sylvia Sadlier. iffiey are the first women in Australia to be given such power. Five slot telephone boxes—two in the south end, two in the nofrth end, and one in the vicinity of the wharf—were visited by thieves on Friday night. The modus operand! of the thieves was to sever the front plates of the boxes and then remove the pennies. Lassen Peak, Americans only active volcano, is erupting dense clouds of smoke and ashes. Terrific rumblings alarmed the people in the towns in the valley. The last eruption occurred in May, 1915, and caused considerable damage. The United States Government mado representations to China against granting monopolistic wireless rights to the Japanese Mitsui Company. The United States desire is to protect the rights of American companies. Obanism (565): One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow. Get busy. Insure yourself against colds by ordering a bottle of B.N. Hum from the Oban Hotel now—l2s, 8s 6d, 6s, 3s 6d.—[Advt.] At Los Angeles, Marjorie Daw, a' film actress, was married to Mr Alfred Sutherland, director. Charles Chaplin was best man and Mary Pickford was matron of honor. A New York cable states _ that Jim Larkin was deported in the Majestic. Ho protested violently at being compelled to travel on a British ship. The ‘ Daily Express’s ’ Moscow correspondent states that M. Trotsky has disposed of the reports that he is dying of poison by appearing at a meeting in. Kremlin. He weighs 101 b more than he did last year. , Of eighty-seven law students to be called to the Bar next week, it is noteworthy that thirty are from the dominions and India. An old man going along a highway came at evening, cold and prey, te a chasm vast and deep and wide, and there he found some Dewar’S Imperial waiting for hrm.--[Advt.j .Socialism is like love and measles. It comes upon many in their teens, but they outgrow it.- —Miss Mary Grant. Since I have been Foreign Secretary 1 have forgotten I was a Gonsefvative and a Unionist. I have striven for the honor of my country and the peace of tb# worn. Lord Curzon.