IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

• ANNIVERSARIES, November 9.

1820.—Manukau Harbour discovered by the Rev. Samuel Marsden. 1841.—Birth of King Edward VII. 1869. First meeting of University; Council; Dr Burns, Chancellor. 1870. —Verdun surrendered to Germans with 4,000 prisoners. 1902.-—Steamer Elingamite wrecked on the Three Kings; forty-five lives lost.

1914.—H.M.A.5. Sydney destroyed Bmden at Cocos Island. 1918.—Abdication of the Kaiser, November 10.

1483.—Martin Luther born. 1728.'—Oliver Goldsmith born. 1846. —First child of white parents born in Dunedin.

1871.—Livingstone found by Stanley, 1886.—Eoslyn Woollen Mills commenced manufacture of worsteds—first in colony. 1915.—Turkish attack repulsed by New Zealanders. 1918. —Kaiser fled to Holland. 1923.—Ex-Crown Prince returned to Germany.

Women outlive men owing to several reasons, one of which being that they breathe a much greater number of times to the minute. This burns up the body’s waste products. While there are no reliable data as to unemployment in the United States, the. Ministry of Labour admits that there are approximately 5,000,000 un- ■ employed people in the States. Nearly 5,000 married women between the ages or twenty-one and thirty have the right to vote in the City of London. There are now 25,000 men and nearly 22,0Q0 women on the registers.