IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 18G3. —Occupation of Ngaruawahia j British flag honied on Maori king’s flagstaff. 1881. —Destruction of King s Theatre, Vienna, liv lire; 700 lives lust. 1882. Great fire in Wood street, CTienpside, London ; damage £2,000,000. 1902. Pacific (All Red) cable service opened. 1903—Herbert Spencer died. 1907.—King Oscar of Sweden died. 1914.—'The Falklands naval battle. Eight bankruptcies, all in the North Island, were notified in the last issue of the ‘ Gazette.’ _ Torrential rain which fell at Sydney on Saturday interfered with all sport* meetings and caused many postponements. I am near enough to my own youtli to know that a lot of what writer’s and poets say about youth is nonsense—Lady Astor. A Madrid communique states that the garrisons at Kala and Bnliandun, in tho Laracho sector, have retired upon Meserah.— Router. Humor is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things ns they are, in contrast to things as they might he. Debars ImpcxiA* is also a comforter Sir Wilailm Brancker has arrived at Bucharest, en route to India by air. At Innsbruck the, congress of German natural historians and physicians was attended by more than 1,000 persons, chiefly from Germany and Austria, some of them coming from Berne, Copenhagen, Manchester, and Moscow. Mr M‘Galium Scott, formerly Coalition Whip of Scotland, has joined the Labor Party.—Reuter. Mr Baldwin has renewed tho promise given in 1923 to contribute £1,000.000 to the maintenance of the Ulster special police. Mr Ramsay MacDonald refused this grant on the ground that the special police were a political force. At New York a loan of 100,000,000 dollars, raised for the Government of France, was over-subscribed within ono hour. The ■ loan was offered at 94, and it yielded in 1 interest a rate of 7i per cent.