IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1618.—Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded, 1795.—J0hn Keats born. IS4l.—Ship Comwaller arrived at Auckland with immigrants from Glasgow. 185 S.—Electric telegraph opened betweeen Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. 1861.—-Death of John Robert Godley, 1878.—Sir George Grey’s first Land Tax Bill passed. 1891.—Earthquake on Nippon Island,Japan; 34,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost. 1894.—Wreck of Wairarapa on Groat Barrier; 126 lives lost. 1918.—Austria sued for peace. 1921. —Death of Bishop Nevill. 1922. —ltalian Fascists effect a coup,and form a Government, with Signor Mussolini (Fascist leader) as Prim© Minister. It is_ estimated that two million children live in English slums. St. Mary’s Church, in Greenwich,has been closed for ten years. ■ Any book is a good bopk if you get any good out of it.—Mr St. John Adcock.
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 1
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126IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 1
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