IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

anniversaries. —November 26. 1866.—First Parliament of Victoria opened at .Melbourne. 18(39.—Birth of Queen, Aland of Norwav, third daughter of King Edward VII.' ,188-I.—First Otago A. and P. snow at Tahnna Park. 1889.—New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition opened at Dunedin. 1802.—Death of Cardinal Larigcric, noted African missionary. 3921—Departure of Lord Jcllicoe. —November 27. 1790.—Chatham Islands discovered. 1817 John WicLdiffo and Philip Laing sailed for Otago. 1870.—La Fere capitulated to Germany. 1877, —First A. and P, Show, Forbnry Park. 1878. —Various halls at Oxford absorbed by colleges. 1895.—Death of Alexandre Dumas. 1915. —Lord Kitchener visited Anzac and Krithia fronts. 1916. —Zeppalin raid on cast coast of England; two Zeppelins brought down. There seems to bo something wrong with almost everything.—The Rev. Gwilym 0. Griffith. For all practical purposes of ChristFor all practical purposes of Christianity it makes no difference whether we arc descended from apes or not.— The Bishop of Ripon. Slogan 25; Start the new year with a clean office. Warehouses, factories, offices cleaned with our largo vacuum machine during holidays. Book orders now .(’Phone 10-193), Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., SO King si reel- Householders, remember the hag wash. —Robert Knowles, manager At a depth of a mile the ocean bed is well illuminated by the luminous organs of the fish living there, accord- . ing to one scientist. Urandtsta (304) : Every bottle sold at the Grand has Dunedin’s leading hotel’s reputation Behind it, Card-indices nro replacing the famous shipping ledgers at Lloyd’s Exchange, London. The ledgers measure 2ft Cia by Ift Pin. My pretty Jane, my dearest Jane, , Ah, never look so shy, Bui meet me, meet me, in the evening, When the bloom is on the rye, And we’ll have a Dewar’s Imperial. Less beer is being drunk in Great Britain, the decrease in the year ended last Juno being 4 per cent, compared with the previous twelve year*. ,