IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 17G9.—Captain Cook first sighted New Zealand 1803.—First convicts arrived at Port Phillip. 1830.—Commencement of the “ Black Lino” in Tasmania to drive aborigines on to Tasman Peninsula. 1849.—Edgar Allan Poe died. 1894.—0. W. Holmes died. 1914.—Antwerp evacuated. .1916.—British captured Le Sars. 1916.—Raid of American coast bV submarine U 53. There are 6,167 public houses and' beerhouses in the London County Council area. ,> Plymouth has opened a new park of 234 acres, for which it has paid £24o y 000. About 20 per cent, of the butter consumed in the United Kingdom is blended. . ~ English is displacing French as the first foreign language taught in .many Prussian schools, i The lease of Richmond Palace, where Queen Elizabeth died, has been announced for sale.
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Evening Star, Issue 20917, 7 October 1931, Page 1
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125IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20917, 7 October 1931, Page 1
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