IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19411, 20 November 1926, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —November 20. _ 1837.—'Queers Victoria opened tn« session of the, first Parliament of her 'TsiO.—Captain Hobson became Governor of New Zealand, 1841.—Sir Wilfred Launer born. _ 1863.—Battle of Ranginn; Captain Mercer killed. , ~ - ' , 1868.— Canterbury volunteers left for * Maori war. . . , 1894. Rubinstein, musician and composer, died. , . . 1907.—Land Laws Amendment Act passed, abolishing lehse-in-perpetuity. 1910.—Tolstoy died. , —November 21. 1759.—Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange,' London, died. 1831.—thirst coal shipped from workings at Newcastle. . . 1835.—James Hogg, the Ettnck Shepherd, died. - ■ .. 1856.—First representative Parliament of Victoria. . 1917. British advanced m Cambrai; Hindenburg lino broken. i 1918. German fleet surrendered. 1922.—Allies and,Turks opened conference at Lausanne. There are. now six cases of typhoid fever in Masterton Hospital,, ana two suspects are under observation. Two cases admitted as- suspects have been discharged. Fresh-wafer eels travel a distance equal to a quarter of tho earth’s circumference, about 6,000 miles, in their lives. A little peaceful home bounds alt my wants and wishes; add to this my book and a friend, some Dewar’s Imperial, and this is happiness A diamond with a hole right through the middle has been discovered at Elandsputte. It is of special value as a freak gem. Tho ordinary weight of the human heart is 9loz, and in size, tho organ is equal to the closed fist of the person to whom it belongs. Last year British railways carried nearly 75 million parcels, 278 million gallons of milk, 33,843 tons of meat| and 473,738 tons of fish. Only one form of lizard is venomous, tho gila monster of Arizona. These reptiles have about fifty poison fang* 1 each.