IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20636, 8 November 1930, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —November B. 1674.—J0jm Milton Ijorn. 1841.—" First issue of the Auckland ‘ Chronicle.’ 1868.—Poverty Bay massacre. 1899—Boer attack on Ladysmith r«t' pulsed with great loss. .. - 1915.—Italian liner Ancona sunk bjf submarine. ' ■—November 9. 1820.—Manukau Harbour discovered bv Rev. Samuel Marsden. *lß4l.—Birth of King Edward VII.1870. —Verdun surrendered, to Gen» mans, with 4,000 prisoners. 1880.—Captain Boycott’s persecutiorf caused word “boycott” to be• intro* duced into language. _ t' 1902. —Steamer Elingamite wrecked on the Three Kings; forty-five lives? IOSt. ■ 1914 —H.M.A.5. Sydney destroyed Emden at Cocos_ Island. 1918.1—Abdication of the Kaiser. Women should not be worshipped; ifi demoralises them. They should be disS creetly loved.—Mr William Gerhardi: Seven hundred Americans reached the German capital on a single day ini August, establishing a new record fotl Berlin. , British blast furnaces, which pro* vided work for 30,000 men .ten yearjj ago, now employ only ■ about two* thirds of this number. Said to he over 2,000. years old, A black oak boat, unearthed at tlau* driridod Wells, has been sent to thd Welsh National Museum. A boy who joins a British trawler afi sixteen is entitled to try for hki “ticket” after five'years, and, if h. 4 passes, become mate or skipper.