IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18331, 19 July 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES

1814,—Matthew Flinders, Australian •explorer, died. IB6o.—Garibaldi captured Royalists’ last stronghold in Sicily. 1864.—First tree planted in Christchurch Gardens. 1888.—Major Barttelot killed on his way to support Stanley. 1895.—Stambuloff, ex-Premier of Bulgaria, assassinated.

1896.—Death of the Hon. R, Pharazyn, M.L.O. 1906.—Sir Walter Puller died.

Every nation gets the Jews it deserves.—Dean Inge.

As far back as the fourteenth century there are records of a ferry across the River Thames at Woolwich.

Rubber gloves for house painters, to avoid any risk of infection, was a recent suggestion of a London coroner. Top-hatted idols 6,000 years bid have been brought to London from the interior of Panama by an explorer. Our famous sugar-cured_ baconi nothing to equal it in the dominion. —Barton andl Trcngrove, Manse street (and all branches) Britons in prison for not paying their income tax numbered 1.162 tw'O years ago; the number is much smaller now. Ruins of a city, believed to bo at least 4,000 years old, have been discovered in Mexico by a Scottish mining engineer. Tins paragraph is inserted for any who site thinking about buying' a Push Chair or Pram at tbo cheapest price for tho host article that is to bo obtained in Dunedin. Beautiful Seagrass Pram, with seagra® hood and solid Malacca cane frame, luxuriously upholstered, nickel handle, and sprung on tho best. English wheels, 117 s 6d. Seagrass Push Chair,, with leather hood, 69s 6d; others, s«grass hood, 82s 6d.—Only at .Riach and M'Dcnuan'B, Anzao square The cx-Crown Prince of Germany has brought an action against tho Prussian Minister of Finance in order to get tho sequestration order on his estates lifted.

“Bridge-wrist” is a new ailment, said to follow strain in dealing out playing cards too often. When you ' fail to get satisfaction _ elsewhere, try Williamson's, Uie quality jewellers, for that alarm clock Prices from 8s 6d

Tlio Fiji Legislative Council recommended an alteration of tho Letters Patent giving Civil servants the vote at the election of members, and also permitting Indiana to elect two members of the Legislature. Obanism (636): When your doctor order* brandy, tho Oban motel stocks Premier Champagne Brandy (1848), qts 25s} Honnessy’s Throe. Star, 18s; Mew Bow (long neck), 18e; Bisquit de Bouche (20 yea.it), 18s: delivered anywhere in town or suburbs ; ring 920 At a meeting of tho lloa (Greymouth) Miners’ Union on Tuesday evening a majority favored the resumption of work.