IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18627, 7 May 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1312,- Robert Browning born. 1317.—Lord Rosebery horn. 1856. First, New Zealand Ministry. 1366. —Attempt on life of Prince Ris» niarck. , 1883. Royal College of Music, I/ondon, opened. 1915.—Lusitania torpedoed by the Germans, with loss of Uo4 lives.

Sixty per cent, of British salmon to caught in Scotland. Some 212,000 tons of fish .arc imported into London every year. America controls 70 per emit, of the ou production of the world. Asiatic cholera, is the most fatally rapid disease known to medical science. Baby Grand “Moore and Moore.” Test this master piano at. P. Howell Company® new show rooms, Stuart street. Secure it, using your present piano as a deposit, and get easy payments for balance.... Mount Etna is known to have been active as a volcano as far back as_ 500 n.r. Thoro is something to bo said for the paradox that in the next war tlm safest place for a man will he in tho fighting services.—Sir Philip Sassoon. Tho Government of India announces that it is proposed to intioduce dunng the May session of tho Assembly legislation on the linos of tho recommendations contained in tho Tariff Board’s report. You may say what you please —it is bet* ter to say what pleases other people. Ask \ them to have a Dewar’s Imperial. George Squires, aged seventy-five, formerly a groom, hut now living in a Newark ‘(Nottinghamshire) almshouse, has inherited £BO,OOO from his uncle’s widow. Squires has four daughters and six sona living. Tho Victorian Government has decided that all Government employees coming within the scope of the recently declared basic wage shall receive an increase, involving an additional expenditure of £IOO,OOO a year.