IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 17‘id.—Thomas Jefferson born. 176!).—Captain Cook arrived at Tahiti in Endeavor, first voyage. 1829—8i1l of Catholic Emancipation passed. 18G1.—Tho Federal Garrison of Charleston surrendered to tho Confederation. ISGS.—Capture of Magdala and end of Abyssinian War. 1894.—Strikes at Bradford; military calicd out. 1899.—Spanish - American peace signed. 1904.—Russian battleship Petropavlovsk blown up by mine outside Port Arthur. 1915.—Russian Carpathian offensive stopped. A child under six years of age requires half as much food, and one over fourteen years quite as much food, as an adult man. Tho IGin guns mounted on 11M.S. Nelson, Britain’s largest battleship, are G7ft long and fire shells weighing 2461 b each. Experience ot Scouliar and Chisholm 1 * Furniture is that it le the cheapest in the city Test it f or yourselvesWestminster Cathedral is being decorated in mosaic work, a task tnat, it is anticipated, will occupy a century or more. Twenty bankruptcies were notified in the latest Issue of the ‘ Gazette.’ Fifteen being in the North Island.