IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

AX-NiVEUSAIUES. 10(2.—Discovery of Tasmania. 17;)] —The Snares discovered by A ancouvcr. , , , , 1847. —Deal!) of Mendelssohn, composer. 1848. Lord Melbourne died. 1855. —Responsible government proclaimed for New South Wales. " 1857. Death of General Sir Henry Havelock. 1868. Opening of Snnthfield metropolitan meat market. 1915.—Heavy Italian attack on Holshevists in Petrograd asked for armistice with Germans.

In twenty years time everybody who is in a hurry “will ily across the Atlantic.—Sir Arthur Yarrow. Slogan 25: Start the new year with a clean 0 office. Warehouses, factories, offices cleaned with our large vacuum machine during holidays. Book orders now i Rhone 10493) Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 40 Kiim street. Householders, remember the ba"°wash.—Robert Knowles, manager...... In some aspects the modern haa become so absurd that it cannot be cantered.—Mr G. lv. Chesterton. Gmndism (302): The cellars of the Grand Hotel have the finest show of Wines sod Spirits in Now Zealand. Inspection invited ~, , i A jive-valve portable set, with loud speaker, is at the disposal of travellers in a motor coach in Monmouthshire. Laughter in excess may lead to * disease which causes the patient to remain in a cataleptic state for a short period. When afar your footsteps wander, Will you then your words forget? Will yon leave mo but a memory Of the days when first-we met, And drank Dewar’s Imperial? ,4 The Coronation Spoon, in.the Tower of London, is believed to be the oldest English silver spoon still existing. A block of offices that .will'constitute the largest building in the British Empire unHer Construction in Mpntrenl. The ground floor will have an area of 1,250,000 srpiare feet.