IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18628, 8 May 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1857—Melbourne named. 1841.—Consecration of India’s first bishop. 1841.—Treaty of Wa.ito.ngi signed. 1875.—John Stuart Mill died. Celia Cooney, one of the so-called “ bobbed hair ” bandits, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Her husband received a sentence of twenty years. ‘ Baby Grand ‘‘Moore and Moore. Test (bis master piano at F. Howell Company's new show rooms, Stuart street. Secure it, using your present piano aa a deposit, and get easy payments for balance.... Th© two most disastrous failures of modem architecture are the cottages and the villas.—Lord Curzon. The explorer Captain Stefausson has sailed from San Francisco on an exploratory trip into the interior of Australia. He* estimates that the trip will take four months. Williamson’s Weldon Lever is a fine watch for a man. It gives 20 years' service for £2.—The Quality Jewellers (next The Bristol) A Paris cable slates that M. Do Mioheu accomplished a flight over a circular kilometre on his gyroscopic helicopter, occupying seven minutes and a-half. Ho landed at the starting point without difficulty. The very latest improvement in Seagrass Prams is a pram that is collapsible. Thi* prarnette is very beautiful in appearance, easily driven, and the compact way in which it can be folded make it far and away more convenient than the oldfashioned pram, which could not possibly he taken on a (ramcar. The price 1b £0 10s, and it i~ "'hi by Riach and M'Lennan, of Anzac square

Tin* Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, in view of the presence of overseas visitors, is arranging an Empire thanksgiving service, including a brief war commemoration, on the evening of June 18. Speakers at fho Empire Press luncheon on Tuesday said that the newspapers in London should devoto greater space to overseas nows in recognition of tneir increasing interest in London.