IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1785.—Birth of Robespierre, Terrorist leader m French Revolution. 1863.—First locomotive for Lyttel-' ton railway landed. ; 1809.—Capture of Ra, Urewerai 'Country, and defeat of To Kooti. , 1882.—Tiie Phoenix Park murders. 1 1907.—1au Maelaren, Scottish au* tiior, died. 1910.—King Edward VJI. died. ; _ . i f To-day is the nineteenth, anniversary I of the accession of King George to tlia Throne. . Thirteen bankruptcies were notilied in the latest edition of tbe ‘ Gazette.M Nino of the number were in the North' Island. j People generally quarrel because i they cannot argue.—Mr G. K. Chester- ] ton j Wireless licences brought the BriUshi Post Office an income of £1,23-Iml the year ended March .31, J 928. Of', this sum £824,237 was paid to the 1 British Broadcasting Company. i The population of the United Irtalcs of America has been officially estimated] at 120.013,000. The population, ef I Great Britain and Northern Ireland was 45,318.000 in 1926.
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Evening Star, Issue 20167, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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153IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20167, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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