IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 21570, 16 November 1933, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1499. —Perkin Warbcck executed. 1811.—Jolm Bright born. 1840.—New Zealand declared a separate colony. 1818. —First meeting at Auckland of Legislative Council of New Zealand. 1869.—Suez Canal opened. 1880. —Big storm on English' coast; several ships wrecked. 1902.—Death of George A. Monty, war correspondent and writer of boys’ books. 1916. —First ballot of reservists under New Zealand Military Service Act. 1917. —Defeat of Kerensky by Bolshevists. A walking stick made from the paper of 3,000 love letters won a prize at a curio exhibition at Knoddishall, Suffolk. The garden at Drapers’ Hall, near the Bunk of England, London, is on land estimated to be worth £5,000 a square yard. Grandism (2,109) ; Mild and mellow, like a soft answer, hut with a full, rich, satisfying whisky body; Grand House, all Sentch Whisky, 12s bottle; half, 6s 6d.... A man’s death through being bitten on a finger by a lamb was the subject of an inquest at Pontrilas, Herefordshire, recently.