IN A NUTSHELL
.ANNIVERSARIES. 18^2.—Sydney incorporated. 1866.—First naval engagement with ironclads; Italians defeated by Austrians at Lissa. IS7L—Purchase of commissions in British Army abolished. 1086. Mr Gladstone defeated at General Election, and resigned Premiership. 1890.—Death of Sir Richard Wallace, art collector. 1903.—Pope Leo XIIT. died; aged ninety-three years. 1913.—Barry beat. Pearce for sculling championship on Thames. “Thirty or forty miles an hour is no excessive speed for a. fairly competent man on skis,” declared Mr F, W, Vosseler, lecturing at the Wellington Y.ILC.A. on ‘New Zealand Scenery.’ Obanism (636): 111101 your doctor orders brandy, tbo Oban Hotel stocks Prunier Champagne Brandy qts 255; Honnessy's "Three Star, 18s; Mcukow (long neck), 18s; Disqnit do Bench© (20 years), 18s; delivered anywhere in town .or suburbs; ring 920 Tlio first lambs of the season have already made their appearance in Hawke’s Bay,' particularly in the Otano district. The indications are that the lambing season will be an early and r, irood one.
“From wJjat I can learn, Meant Everest will never be conquered unless it i* done so bv means of some artificial lielp, such as oxygen.”-—Mr F. \V. Vosselcr, at the Wellington Y.M.O.A. Day by day, as he went his way, the minstrel strummed and he sang his lay; bis clothes were ragged, bis hair was grey, but his heart was light as the air, o—be0 —be- . ■ cause he drank Dewar's Imperial William Anderson, who was committed to tho mental hospital in 1921, after the murder of a man named Teller, and who escaped yesterday morning, was recaptured in Auckland in (lie afternoon, wearing a new suit and with money and tobacco in bis pockets.
A man who was sentenced at Rome to life imprisonment for murder has been pardoned after serving forty-six years. Experience of Sooullar and Chisholm’s Furniture is that it is the cheapest in the city. Test it for yourselves The Belgian fauna ue, by seventy-four votes to fifty five, passed a Bill providing for instruction in Flemish at the Ghent University. The new Thnmis Ministry is now considered see a re.
Obanism (637): We were licensees of two of tho largest hotels in New Zealand for just on six years. Our sales of R.N. Rum last winter in the Oban were more than kt those two hotels. Why ? R.N, Rum is wonderful value at 12s quart “It will surprise sonw of you to know that the top of tho Tararua Range Is literally alive with flowers in summer, and the iilace is one huge garden. ’ ’—Mr F. W. Vowsler,
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Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 1
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421IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 1
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