IN A NUTSHELL
'ANNIVERSARIES. • 1769.—Captain Cook first sighted New Zealand. 1903. —First convicts arrived at Port Phillip. 1830.—Commencement of the “ Black Line” in Tasmania to drive aborigine! on to Tasman Peninsula. 1849. —Edgar Allan Poe died. 1894.—0. AV. Holmes died. 1914.—Antwerp evacuated. 1916.—British capture Le Sara. 1916.—Raid off American coast bj) submarine U 53.
All the British cross-Channel air liners are now fitted with three engines. A film of the interior of the human lung has been taken in a Berlin hospital. A tall man can, according to one expert, stand more intoxicating drink than a short one. Three hundred large German companies paid an'average dividend of 7.11 per cent, last year. If you give a soldier chromiumplated buttons, he will eventually dc« velop a chromium-plated mind.—Briga-dier-general F. P. Crozier. I suppose, boiled down, there is no sin in the world save selfishness.—Miss Olive Wadsley.
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Evening Star, Issue 20608, 7 October 1930, Page 1
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145IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20608, 7 October 1930, Page 1
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