IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1834. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. 1848. — Right Hon. A. J. Rali'our born. 1874.—Blondm’s first appearance in colonies (Brisbane). 1835. —Oxford University crew rowed from Dover to Calais in four hours and a-linlf. 1800.—Western Australia given self* government. ]g94._V,'nr between Japanese and Cltiue.se. 1909.—Bleriol crossed English Cham ncl on monoplane. .Seventeen bankruptcies were notified in last week’s issue of the ‘Gazette.’ Nine of the number were in the South Island. By the spring of 1928 it is expected Hint a new twelve-story 400-room hotel will be built in Quebec City, on the site of the Montcalm Market, at a cost of about £400,000 Salmon fishing on the River Severn, which is carried on with baskets and rete in May, June. July, and August, is done with appliances very similar to those used nearly 000 years ago. Grandism (200): The secret of tho popnlaritv of our Bulk Wh sky is that it is tho best “Scotch and thoroughly aged in the wood. —Grand Hotel... Human life has boon lengthened from twenty-two years in tho Middle Ages to fifty-eight years to-day, due to the decrease in infant mortality, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce. A Berlin cable message stales that the aviators Loose and Risticz, in attempting to beat Chamberlin’s endurance record, were forced to land after, a flight of 20 hours.