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ANNIVERSARIES
18dm— First printing press landed ft) New Zealand.
1857.—Local branch Union Bank of Australia opened. Caledonian sports on ground in King street.
A London cable states that something in the nature oi an aviary wedding was celebrated. Tho bride was named Pheasant, the bridegroom Partridge, tlie officiating clergyman Woodcock, and the bridesmaid Miss Dove. A cable message from Melbourne states that a fire at Stanhope destroyed thirteen wooden shops. The damage is estimated at £20,000.
Grandism (27); "No woman should marry a, teetotaller or a, man who docs not smote” (R. L. Stevenson, ‘ Virjrinibus,* pt. i., pa-po 22). If ho will ''spot,’’ bo sure be has it at the Grand Hotel... A P.A. cable from London states that the Countess of Warwick has withdrawn her offer to band Easton Lodge, Dunmow,- to the Laborites, who are unable to find the necessary money to convert the palatial residence into a Labor College.
Grandism (28): Here you will find large, lofty, spacious, well-ventilated bare and the best of Ales, Wines, and Spirits, and th« company is select.—Grand Hotel... Mr Coates is spending the New Year and the week-end in London, attending to business. While cn route home he intends to inspect the principal Canadian railway works.—P.A. Cable. A cable message from Pans states that the noted aviator, Commandant Weiss, is setting out early in the new year on a flight from Paris to Dakar. Buenos Aires, New York, England, and back to France, thus crossing the Atlantic twice.
IN A NUTSHELL
Evening Star, Issue 19446, 3 January 1927, Page 1
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