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ANNIVERSARIES. 55 b.c. —Invasion of Bi'itaiii by Julius Caesar. , 1855—Sir James Carroll born. 1857.—Ship Dunbar wrecked, Sydney Heads. IB6o.—Burke and Wills left Melbourne on their exploring expedition. 1875.—Mr (Sir) R. Stout elected member for Caversbam. defeating Mr W. J. M. Larnach by 12 votes. 1882.—Suez Canal occupied by Naval Brigade (during Egyptian War). 1895.—Trustees of cemeteries authorised to provide for cremation. 1914. —Germans occupied Brussels. 1915. —ltaly declared war against Turkey. After nearly thirty years on the magistrate’s bench, I am leaving my job a convinced optimist, with an infinite belief in the goodness of human beings.—Mr A. J. Tassell. If you want to bo horrified bv straight roads and rows of houses, pa into the air and look down upon thenij —Mr Ramsay Macdonald, Of the 4,600 Englishmen who went to prison rather than light in the Great War, twenty-five have since been elected to Parliament. During the year 1929-30 the British' Government-owned licensed houses in Carlisle and district made a net profit of £66,689. At January 26, 1931, there were 220,360 persons classified as belonging tn the building industry recorded as unemployed in Great Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 1
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190IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 1
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