IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —November B.—■ 1674,—J0hn Milton born. 1841 .—First issue of the Auckland ‘ Chronicle.’ 1868. —Poverty Bay massacre. 1839. Boer attack on Ladysmith repulsed with great loss. :, 15. —Italian liner Ancona sunk by submarine. —November 9. 1820.—Manukau Harbor discovered by Rev. Samuel Marsden. 1841.—Birth of King Edward VII. 1870.—Verdun surrendered to German*, with 4,000 prisoners. 1880.—Captain Boycott’s persecution caused word “ boycott ” to bo introduced into language. 1502.—-Steamer Elingamito wrecked on the Three Kings; forty-five lives lost. 1914.—H.M.A.5. Sydney destroyed Eraden at Cocos Island. 1918.—Abdication of the Kaiser.

Sydney advises that the weather is still unsettled, and the telegraph services are disorganised. The cable news is much delayed through the Pacific block and the interrupted land lines. To be taken to gaol in a wheelbarrow is an uncommon occurrence, but such occurred in Otaki recently, when an intoxicated female “ drunk ” caused trouble. England’s fastest train- is the 3.45 p.m. from Swindon to Paddington, which does the seventy-seven and a-quarter miles in seventy-live minutes. Onco operate the “Cable” Player Piano, and you are spoilt for all others. Inquire why at Howell Company Player Parlors, 70 Stuart street...... Some photographs of the moon. in natural colors were shown at a recent meeting of the British Astronomical Association. In the first six months of the presenl year tho amount of coal made availabh for consumption in Canada was 13,807,66 i tons. The total number of typhoid cases during the Great War was less than tin deaths from that disease during the Boaf War. ■