IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1768.—Royal Academy founded. 1846.—First child of white parents born in Otago. 1859.—Queensland separted from New South Wales. 1873.-Mar.shal Bazaine sentenced to death for surrendering Metz; sentence subsequently commuted to twenty years' seclusion on Isle St. Marguerite. _ 1877.—Osman Pasha and Turish army at Plevna. 1899.—General Gatacre, misled by guides, suffered reverse at Sternberg. 1915.—Turkish attack at Krithia repulsed by New Zealanders. 1918.—New Zealand war loan of £10,000,000 authorised. Lot us by no means despise jazz.—M. Ravel. Latest figures regarding the British elections give the Conservatives 259 seats; other parties combined 343. A London cable states that in the Iggulden case the jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Accused was sentenced to death. Three centuries in local senior cricket on Saturday. Obanism (75(5): Speight’s ale, 3-stax or ordinary, cased and packed, railed anywhere free, 20s; winea and spirits a little better at the Oban Hotel Prize-winners .in Greymouth R.S.A. art union:—J. Thomson, Kokiri (£125); J. West, Browns, Southland (£50); Lena Ryan, Westport (£25). Fourteen bankruptcies were notified in last week’s issue of the ‘ Gazette.’ Nine of them, involving eleven persons, were in the North Island. The sales of “Moore and Moore" Pianos at Howell's keep increasing. The reason is —“ value.” Twelve years ago a moderate-sized shop could be rented in Oxford street, London, for about £I,OOO a year. This rent would be at least doubled to-day. Children who live on canal barges in England arc supposed to attend the school in whatever district the barge stops. They might thus go to different school every day. The girl who thinks no man good enough for her may be right—and left, too. Go to and have a Dewar’s Imperial Grasshoppers in a cloud several mil's Jong and about one-eight of a mile wide were recently blown along about 100 ft above ground in Saskatchewan. In passing, they obscured the sky for three hours. . Most of the big public schools in England have waiting lists extending to 1027. Scholars are coming from as far afield as Peru for the sake of a British education.