IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. JS42.—Settlement founded at Nelson. 1867.—Post- Office Savings Bank established so New Zealand. 1879.—Explosion Kaitangata mine; thirty-five lives lost. 1901.—Body ot, Queen Victoria removed from Osborne to Portsmouth. 1908.—King Carlos and Crown Prince of Portugal shot dead in streets of Lisbon. 1917.—United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. Balloons are inflated with ordinary coal gas. and it costs £2O to fill one to cany four or five passengers The number of women in Britain who will have the vote for the first time this year avi'll bo about 5,245.00(1 Experience of Scoullar and Chisholm’s Furniture is that it is tho cheapest in the city Test it for yourselves.. . What has been described as the most beautiful mosaic pavement in the world has been found in -Albania. The parish of Freckleton, near Preston, hold a poultry-farming record b.y the possession of 41.000 hens.' A shop in "Oxbridge High street, worth from £1,200 to £1,500 before 1914, was recently sold for £7,000, ,
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Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 1
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164IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 1
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