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ANNIVERSARIES. —November 30. — . 1578.—Cape Horn, discovered by Drake. 1835.—Mark Twain born. 1842. —First Masonic Lodge opened in New Zealand, at Wellington. 1865. —Death of Admiral Fitzroy, second Governor of New Zealand. 1900.—Oscar Wilde died. 1917.—Second Battle of Cambfai. •—December I.— 1844. —Birth of Queen Alexandra. 1863.—-First railway opened in New Zealand —Christchurch to Ferrymcad Junction. 1882. —Milton pottery works destroyed by fire. 1893.—Patrick O’Donnell condemned to death for shooting Carey, informer in the Phoenix Park murders. 1900. —German Emperor declined to receive President Kruger. 1917.—Six o’clock closing commenced. 1925.'—Treaties of Locarno signed in London. The modern girl_ is as well and sensibly. dressed as it is possible for her to be.—Dr Jane Walker. Birmingham Corporation owns the largest municipal bus fleet in England, with 265 buses and sixteen trolley cars. Leeds has a canine population of over 30,000, and the rate of increase -in recent ■ years has been frofn 400 to 1,350 a year.
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Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 2
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157IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 2
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