IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1533.—Newfoundland annexed. 1836.—Battle of Waitai-puku; Rotorua and Waikato defeated Arawas. 1850.—Victoria , South' Australia,_ and Tasmania ■ granted representative institutions by Imperial Statute. 1858.—First Atlantic cable message sent by Queen Victoria to United States President. IB6o.—Death of W. H. G. Kingston, popillar writer of boys’ books. 1868.—Death of General P. H. Sheridan, noted northern leader iu American Civil War. , . . 1872. —Publication of -Dr Livingstone’s despatches taken to England by H. M. Stanley. 1901.—Death of the Empress Frederick, mother of the ex-Kaiser. 1909.—Steamer Maori wrecked near Cape Town. A comet is the crazy lunatic of space.—Sir James Jeans. The effective instrument in the advertising orchestra is somewhere between the big drum and tho hum-drum. —Mr Clough Williams-EIHs. Out of Britain’s national income of about £4,000,000,000 it is calculated that £1,800,000,000 is expended on food. More boys than girls were born hi Britain in the first quarter of this year. There were 81,881 boys and 77,930 girls. Six sets of twins attend the village school at Hodwen, East Yorkshire; four pairs are boys, or i pair girls, and the sixth ‘.‘mixed.” England still heads the list of ship tonnage. The total tonnage of seagoing merchantmen is 67,000,000, o§ which over 20,000,000 is British.