IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —March 13. ISBl.—Tsar Alexander assassinated. I,BB3.—Karl Marx died. 1884. Siege of Khartum began. 1887.—Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy) .signed. 1899.—Sir Julius Vogel died. 1913,—Federal capital christen;*! Canberra. —A]arch lE—--1552,—Sir Walter Raleigh born. 1757.—Admral Byng shot. 1770.—Dusky Bay discovered by Captain Cook. 1832.—Reform Bill carried. 1917.—Tsar of Russia abdicated. Alan Cobham has arrived at Roms on his return flight from Africa. A Melbourne cable states that tho Senate read a third time the Crimes Act Amendment Bill. Nothing can be more disastrous than an unhappy marriage. Let those so situated d'rink Dewar’s Imperial A Reuter message from Vancouver states that according to a telegram from Fairbanks Mr Palmer Hutchinson, tho news writer accompanying tho Wilkins expedition, was killed on Thursday, when an aeroplane propeller chopped through his body. The New Zealand High Commissioner’s Office is fully utilising Empire Shopping Week. Lectures are being given over a large radius around London, and New Zealand films are hi heavy demand. Mate a practice of singing * Home, Sweet Homo ’ while “ Xo-nibbing Laundry Help ” is doing the weekly washing A new process for weaving muslins in fourteen colors on a single shuttle loom has been patented recently by a Glasgow firm. Knarlesborough Castle discoveries in Yorkshire include Flemish glass, a George 111. leaden token, and fourteenth century pottery.