IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. b.o. 44—Assassination of Julius Caesar. 1709.—Andrew Jackson born, 1855.—Conference of Powers at Vienna to restore peace. 1872.—Otago graving dock opened. 1877.—Wreck of Ocean Mail on French Beef, Chatham Island. JB79—Groat fire in Wellington. 1880.—Hurricane, shipwrecks, and loss of life in Samoa. Nineteen bankruptcies were notified in last week’s issue of the New Zealand ‘ Gazette.’ Thirteen of the number were in the North Island. In any group where women are the attitude towards life degenerates.—• Lady Rhondda. A spherical balloon, while flying at night over Rambervillers (France) on February 28, collided with ait electric wire and crashed in flames. The pilot was incinerated. A London cable states that a miners' conference of delegates decided to refer the Coal Commission’s report to the districts, and subsequently to call a further conference.—■Reuter. Mr Shannon (an English experimenter) succeeded in talking to Mexico City using a, transmitter of only 15 watts power compared with 200,000 used by Rugby recently while communicating with New ifork.—A. and X.Z. Cable. Philip Aldsworth, a bed-ridden Bournemouth bookmaker, who has been carrying on a £40,01)0 turnover yearly by telephone, brought a successful action against another English bookmaker, from whom he claimed £631 for unpaid debts. Measles, pneumonia, and peritonitis caused thirty deaths, mostly among emigrants on hoard the Italian liner Belvidere between the time of her departure from Trieste and her arrival at Buenos Aires on Friday. The dead were buried at seat.—A. and N.Z. Cable. .. j