IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1840.—Proclamation of sovereignty over islands of New Zealand. 1851.—First discovery of gold in Australia. 1858. —Great eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1867.—Royal proclamation declaring North American provinces one under the name Canada. 1883.—University College, Auckland, opened. 1886.—Wreck of the Star of Mersey at New Plymouth. 1894.—Manchester ship canal opened.

It is the hardest task in the world to make Utopias gay reading.—Mr H. G. Wells.

Tho damage caused by the fire at Langdon and Langdon’s timber yards is stated to amount to £69,000. The first estimates were £IOO,OOO, For a matchless pair of Id and 2d Post Office Mauritius stamps on one envelope £II,OOO was paid. Prince Napoleon has presented to the French nation the house at Ajaccio, Corsica, where Napoleon I. was born. The Christchurch Drainage Board proposes to raise a loan of £70,000 for sewerage extension, and fixing a special rate of Ijd in the £ on the area- to be sewered. An application from tire Woolston School Committee for the installation o£ a kinernatograph plant at tho school has been declined l by the. Canterbury Education Board.

The escape of an occasional criminal is a. small price to pay for public confidence in the law.—Sir Chartres Biron. Tho metal trade journals in Berlin detail vast new acquisitions by the Stinncs group, notably iron and steel works, in Polish Upper Silesia, Czecho-Slovakia, and/ Hungary. There is a crying demand in America and England for Now Zealand rugs, yet to buy one in New' Zealand is hard enough {remarked Air W. Appleton, of Wellington, at Masterton at the woollen mills meeting). The greatest pleasure is a pleasant friend and some Dewar’s Imperial.—[Advt.]

A Berlin cable states that the advances in Bagdad railway loans, due to the reported acquisition of tho railway by an Anglo-Swiss syndicate, headed by Rothschild’s, equalled 100,000 per cent. AVhen the liner Minnehaha arrived at Plymouth on Friday from New York seventeen bags of mails were missing. The contents of some of the bags which contained registered letters wore found on the decks.

Mrs Phoebe Stabler, ■whose bronze figure of a child is attracting attention at the Royal Academy, lias been admitted to membership in'the Royal Society of British Sculptors. The only other woman member is Miss Flora Kendrick. Obanism (585) • It’s hard to convince a guinea-lien sho doesn’t know as much about music as a mocking bird. Oban whisky is a long way better than case brands.— [Advt.J A reminder of the war is conveyed by a consignment of 787 cases of pole-top hardware which has arrived from England! for iha Manawatu-oroua Power Board. The ironwork is packed in discarded ammunition boxes.

Fifteen bankruptcies notified in last week’s ‘ Gazette,’ seven being in tho North Island.