IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

. ANNIVERSARIES. 1704.—Gibraltar taken, 1803.—Rebellion in Ireland led by Robert Emmet.

1845. —Capture of To Rauparaka at Porirua, near Wellington. 1852. —First direct steamship from England arrived at Wellington. 1858.—Last civic disability of Jews removed by alteration of parliamentary oath for Jewish members.

1885.—Death of General-Grant, cx-Pro-sident of the United Stales. 1885.—Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenburg. 1887.—Jubilee naval review at Spithead.

Ten bankruptcies, of which number seven were in tho North Island, were notified in last week’s issue of tho ‘ Gazette.’

Business men in London complain that Australia House is not furnished with the latest tariff alterations in Australia. A Paris cable states that M. Pescara made a remarkable flight of 700yds in a helicopter, returning to a point within 10yds of the starting point. General Gouraud, formerly commander of the French forces in Syria, has been appointed Military Governor of Paris.

lie only is advancing in life whoso heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, through using Dewar’s Imperial Madame Falnny has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering her husband, Fahmy Bey. She presented a piteous spectacle, as she left the dock, stumbling in the arms of the women warders.

A London cubic states that Earl Haig marched at the head of the delegates to the Ex-Scrvimnen’s Conference to the Cenotaph, and deposited on it a wreath of Flanders poppies. O'banism (6a9); A bottle of R.N. Bum, delivered anywhere in town, 12s; other sizes, 8s 6d, 6s 6d, 5s 6d, 3s. The purest of all spirits.—Oban Hotel Mr Alfred Heathorn told the Betting Commission in London that there had boon more betting in England since the war, but the amounts were smaller. Betting business was practically all credit, and 20 per cent, of it comprised bad debts. Tiic British Wool Federation passed a resolution pledging its members not to buy wool in Australia unless the, draft allowances are allowed to stand, and has cabled instructions to that effect to its buyers in Australia.

During the first half of the year there were approximately 335 bankruptcies registered in the dominion, as compared with 333 in the corresponding half of last year, and 128 in the first half of 1921."