IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1842.—Settlement founded at NelWJII. 1867. — Rost Office Savings Bank established in New Zealand. 1879. Explosion Kaitangata mine; thirty-five lives lost. 1901.—Body of Queen Victoria removed from Osborne to Portsmouth. 1908.—-King Charles and Crown Prince of Portugal shot dead in streets of Lisbon, 1917. —-United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. Salmon were caught in the River Thames between Deptford and Wandsworth as late as 1798. The best cork comes from Algeria. There are 2,-500,000 acres of cork forests in that country. Slogan 29; It’s mighty tiring (o spring clean after a holiday. Let us clean youi chimneys and carpels; it will help you Handy men for general work, Dunedii Window Cleaning Co., 50 Kin" street. Gef the bag wash for your accumulated launcry. ’Phone 10493 Kars measuring 27in long were the striking feature of a black lop-eared rabbit at the recent Redruth show. When Greenwich was given its observatory in 1675, it was a little Thames-side village, distant from London. The Sydney Harbor Trust report for last year shows that 8,259 vessels entered the port. The aggregate net tonnage was 9,546,000 and the'gross ton.nugc 16,690,000. There is a time to speak and a time to forbear speaking, and it’s mostly—if you are a prudent body—the time to forbear speaking!— A. £. Barr.