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ADVERSARIES. 1603.—Milton bom. 1612.~Ta.sman discovered New Zealand 1825. First steamer reached Calcutta, from England. j 1867. First passenger train from Christ- 1 church to Lyttelton. ( 1868. —W. E. Gladstone becaro® Uroauat for the first time. • 1870.—Death of Thomas Brassey, great 1 railway contractor. , 1895.—80mb outrage in French Cham- < her of Deputies; eighty people injured. I 1917.'—British capture Jerusalem. | 1 know I drop my aitciics, but that is ! my misfortune.—Mr J. U. Thomas. j When systems have gone to the dogs 1 it is sometimes found that they are jolly j doK.—Mr G. K. Chesterton. Emigrants from England last year num- 1 bored 267.090, including 159,000 men. i California produced almost 5 per cent.of the total hay crop in the United States Inst year. Three thousand porpoises were caught off the coast of -Sorth Carolina last year fo supply oil for watches. Inmates of workhouses and other poorlaw institutions in Eh eland and Wales in June last numbered 209,750.
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Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 1
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161IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 1
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