IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1170. —Thomas a’Beckett murdered,1809.—Gladstone born. 1836.—Site of Adelaide fixed by; Colonel W. Light. 1850.—Outbreak of second Kaffir War. 1895.—Dr Jamieson’s ride,into Transvaal from Mafeking, 1902. —Coronation Durbar at Delhi began. 1916.—Rasputin shot and body thrown into Neva. 1920.—Italian Royalist troops retake Fiume. There are 1,139 parishes in Britain each with a population of over 5,000 where there is no curate to help the vicar or rector. v The growth of the “ week-end ”< habit is making it very_ difficult for church organists in British towns to procure sufficient choir men. Passenger and cargo liners comprise 70 per cent, of the world’s shipping, whereas the principal item wag formerly the tramp steamer* > ■ . ■
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Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 1
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114IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 1
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