IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19199, 16 March 1926, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1849.—Boulogne surrendered to Austrians. 1883.—Opening of Mornington cable, tramway; 1335. —Opening of Mornington tram extension. 1885.—Calliope, alone of skips in port, escapes from Apia in hurricane. 1001. —King' George and Queen Mary (then Duke 'and Duchess of York), started their tour of the world. j 1902.—Red Sunday massacres, at j Potrograd. 1910.—Fall, of Tirpitz. 3.9l7,—German retreat on tho Somme. Bain is falling steadily' in many parts of. New- South Wales. The end of tho drought is predicted. A Gape Town message states that the four Royal Air . Force seaplanes which are flying from Cairo to Cape Town have reached Kisumu. It needs more courage to suffer than to die. Drink Dewar’s Imperial for health and long life , Nearly 300 applications have been received for the positions of town clerk and city engineer for Wellington City, sixtv-two being from New Zealand and Australia and the rest from Britain and Canada.—Eress Association. It is rumored at Gibraltar that H.M.S. Hood has been detailed to take Prince Henry to Australia to preside at the opening of the new Federal Parliament Buildings at Canberra. “ No-rubbing Laundry Help” is a triumphant success for washing- c10the5....... Advices from Shreveport, in Louisiana, state that five bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Crewell Hotel, which was destroyed by fire on Sunday.—Reuter.

If I were to take a census of opinion in all the four villages of ray parish, V am certain I should find a majority seriously professing belief in witchcraft.—The Rev. Charles Kent.