IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1823.—Charlotte Mary Yongc, novelist, born. 1840— British Flag hoisted at Akaroa by Captain 1 Stanley. 18RL—Melbourne incorporated. 1876.—Registration of women doctors permitted by Medical Act. 3 S7G.—House of Lords reconstructed as Court of Final Appeal. 1890. Death of Cardinal Newman, aged eighty-nine. Why many noble lords do not attend the I.louse is that they can no longer afford to come to London very often.— Lord Sclborne. (irandisrn (21b): In 1927, if the field you scan, you’ll find dm "Grand” a winner, the olhers also ran... Wo ran _no longer rely on the girl ns a. good influence on the boy.—Dr it fs. Griffith. Fifteen to tweniy per rent, of the food crops of tbo world are lost through insect and fungoid attacks, such as mildew and mould. Soldiers worn and weak and weary, marching on a foreign foe, exiles faint and lone and dreary, bending ncath a weight of woe, yearn for some Dewar’s Imperial . Questions asked in the British Parliament cost, on an average,'£l l'6s .each to answer. There may be as many as 120 questions ia one day’s order paper.