IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. .—April 26. , 1711.—David Hume, philosopher and historian, born. 1769.—First Royal Academy Exhibition. - 1812.—Birth of Krupp. 1845.—Martial law proclaimed ia New Zealand. 1852.—Christ's College Grammar School opened at Christchurch. _ 1854.—General fast in England to implore .Divine blessing on British clans in war with Russia. 1857.—Sir J. G. Ward born. 1882.—Death of James'Rice, -joint author with Walter Besant of several novels. 1882.—Dante Gabriel Rossetti died. —April 27. 1737.—Edward Gibbon born.1818.—Order of St. Michael and St. George founded. 1820.—Herbert Spencer born. .1822. —Birth of General Grant, eighteenth President of the United States. 1876.—Queen Victoria made Empress of India by Act of Parliament. 1893.—H0n. John Ballance died. • 1915.—Allied troops established a front two Iniles inland front Capa Hellos. A London cable message states that burglars entered Mr J. H. Thomas’s house at Dulwich and stole jewellery valued at £7O. - The oldest note in the possession of the Bank of England is dated December 19, 1699. It is for £555. Sir Michael Sadler declares that the minimum space for playing fields should be seven acres for 1,000 people. A £2,000,000 contract for raising the Assouan Dam has been signed with a Westminster'firm of engineers. More food can be obtained from an acre of good fishing ground in a week than from an acre of good land l in a year. V ,?