IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19721, 23 November 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. ] t So2. First Australian gold arrived in England. . ]jj(s4'.—Seat of Government removed to Wellington. 1 1070 __The Pope pronounced excommunication against all concerned in annexation of Rome to Italy. . lg-o—First Church (present building) opened. , „ , . ~ ]S99 Lord Methuen dolcated tho Coer’s at the Battle of Belmont. 1902.—Title ol “ Lord Mayor - granted to Mayors of Sydney and Melbourne.

\ London cable states that the Wircless League is shortly sending a representative to South Africa and Australia . to further Empire broadcasting and | make the league an Empire body, 'Slogan 25: Start the new year with a clean office. Warehouses, factories, offices (■loaned with our large vacuum machine during holidays. Book orders now (’Phono 10-495), Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 50 King street. Householders, remember the bag wash.—-Robert Knowles, manager Imperialism is not the attribute of Toryism only, but of revolution.—Mr Ramsay MacDonald. . The overwhelming mischief to-day is the spirit of expenditure.—Mr Ahvyn Parker. The British birth rate last year was the lowest since 1860, except for that of 1918. a war year. Grandism (501) : .Show visitors are invited to inspect the largest cellars and tho biggest stock of Wines and Spirits in tbc Dominion. Grand Hotel A person with normal hearing should be able to distinguish the ticking of a watch sft away. The purple finch is not purple, but is a rich rosy red. Ihe female is streaked with grey and olive brown. Youth; is supposed to have lost its way, but sometimes I wonder if the older folk have let the home fires burn low.—rMr J. A. R. Cairns.