IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1806.—Vienna evacuated by tha French. 1851.—Gold discovered in New South Wales. 1865,—First New Zealand Exhibition opened, Dunedin. • .1878.—First Australian eleven mat Otago (twenty-two players). Scores: Otago, 124 and 93; Australians, 92; game drawn on account of rain. 1898.—Tho steamer Mataura wrecked in the Strait of Magellan. 19H5. —Triumphant entry of Japanese into Port Arthur. Coral, an old-time favorite long despised, is usurping the place of jade in popularity. Machines lor filling milk bottles at the rate of 2,000 an hour were recently exhibited in London. One edition of the Bible weighs almost Lfcwt, and consists of thirtyeight volumes. It is the Braille form, used hy the blind. Grandisra (36): Dry as the remainder biV cuit after a voyage (‘As You Like It,’ act If., 7). Keep a bottle in your locker and replenish at the Grand Hotel Bottle'Store... A London message states that the Pacific Cable Board, at its meeting yesterday, did not discuss the reduction in rates. A Sydney ‘ Sun ’ cable from London states that four attendants at the Zoo contracted anthrax after assisting in a post mortem examination on two elephants.