IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1570.—Opening first Royal Exchange. 1806.—Death of William Pitt. 1855.—Earthquake at Wellington. . 1869. —First English missionary landed in Japan. , 1870. —Death of Charles Kingsley, novelist. 1887.—Guthrie and Larnach’s fire; four men lost their lives. 1 1896.—Madagascar declared French, possession. 1924.—P0rt Elliott . wrecked East Cape. What monster invented after-dinner speaking?—Lord Hewart. Is any man good enough to say that another must live aiid suffer in pain and.disease beyond hope or health?— Dr A. Twecdie Simpson. A child born now has seventeen years longer expectation of life than its grandfather, born in 1846, says Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the British Ministry of Health. Slogan 28: More production ■ and prosperity will follow. After your holidays, how about your chimneys, carpets being cleaned?—Ring 10-493, Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 King street (late St. Andrew street), and remember the useful bag wash. Robert Knowles, manager Spirits of turpentine is made from, , the sap of trees. The sap is drawn j from the tree much as maple sap is. ( Distillation causes a thin fluid, which j is turpentine, to separate from thj . mass. ’ . •
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Evening Star, Issue 19771, 23 January 1928, Page 1
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183IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 19771, 23 January 1928, Page 1
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